Example sentences of "be too [adj] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Detroit 's electronic foragers have had pitifully few outlets in Britain — but it is in countries like Belgium , Germany and Holland that Detroit 's sonic architects are honoured and near-deified ( obviously they 're too deep for new jack wank-happy US ) . |
| 2 | ‘ You 're too good for this job . |
| 3 | ‘ The trouble with you , Portia Gaitskell , ’ Katherine countered , ‘ is that you 're too good for any man . |
| 4 | ‘ Only because you 're too old for that sort of thing . |
| 5 | Or C , tell him you 're too old for that sort of mus , music ? |
| 6 | I 'm too tired for verbal duelling . ’ |
| 7 | When I 'm too old for this line , I reckon Europe should just about be ready for me . ’ |
| 8 | I 'm too old for this game . ’ |
| 9 | The risk of ethnic conflict in Bosnia-Hercegovina was considered to be too great for that republic to qualify for EC recognition . |
| 10 | The tissue obtained may be too small for histological examination but satisfactory for cytology . |
| 11 | Most buddleias will be too tall for restricted sites , but the sweet-scented species B. fallowiana is better behaved and its hybrid ‘ Lochinch ’ — crossed with the common butterfly bush — has silvery foliage and soft blue flowers . |
| 12 | Under an Indian sun , the crowd moved briskly along the prom , chattering about the events of last night ( ‘ You would have thought she 'd be too tired for that sort of thing ’ ) and hoping , with an optimism undimmed by experience , that the day 's events would be as entertaining as they would be inspiring . |
| 13 | If Chris had n't been clutching a piece of leaf , would I have noticed a torn house plant ? some plants , like the aptly named deadly nightshade , do not reveal their effect until hours after ingestion , by which time it may be too late for effective treatment . |
| 14 | Well , if you have a problem after , say , the tenth month after purchase , you will be too late for any claim under the Sale Of Goods Act , but you will still have a claim under your guarantee — as long as it is for more than ten months , and providing you sent off the registration card ! |
| 15 | Of the remainder , another 25–35% will be too advanced for curative treatment and will turn out to be unresectable if surgery is attempted . |
| 16 | The method is aimed at large scale tap water treatment , but may be too expensive for current use . |
| 17 | A large microcomputer system with an extensive range of hardware devices and large block of extra machine-code routines is very flexible and powerful , and would go a long way to meeting the requirements of the program designer , but in realistic terms such a system would be too expensive for most schools at present . |
| 18 | Opponents of the plan say the gravel pit is in a conservation area , and the houses would be too expensive for local people . |
| 19 | People in Bodenham object because it 's in a conservation area and they say the proposed houses would be too expensive for local people . |
| 20 | What steps , other than expressing sympathy and exhortation , will the Minister and the Government take to enforce interest payments on debt and to streamline court procedures , so that it will not be too burdensome for small businesses to pursue their creditors ? |
| 21 | ‘ The good thing is that both boys have had full medicals since we moved to America and the predicted height for both is in the region of 6′2″ to 6′ 3″ , in which case I 'll be very thankful because they 'll be too big for competitive racing . |
| 22 | they are apt to be too large for constructive action , since the time taken by a committee to resolve a problem tends to be in direct proportion to its size ; |
| 23 | The build-up of phase current to its rated value would be too slow for satisfactory operation of the motor at high speeds . |
| 24 | The fees charged by lawyers were said to be too high for ordinary people to afford . |
| 25 | There were railway bridges close to the Beckenham boundaries , that at Beckenham itself being too low for double deck cars . |
| 26 | ‘ But you are making up for that today , ’ said Dr Neil gravely , his mouth twitching , particularly when she looked at him , a question on her pretty face , her mouth being too full for further speech . |
| 27 | None of the females in the family could help in that direction ; we were too poor for such richness . |
| 28 | Talented Hughes and ex-North Wales county team member Preston from Prestatyn were too strong for professional coach Arwyn Pierce of Ruthin and his young partner Danielle Morris Jones of Rhyl , running out straight set winners at a cost of six games . |
| 29 | Its 55-seat SR.N6s , built in the mid-1960s , were too noisy for modern ears . |
| 30 | The interaction of intense laser light with certain gases can produce extreme ultraviolet radiation , but the windows needed to keep the gas contained would absorb it , some ingenious ways were devised to amid windows , but they generally were too cumbersome for practical use . |