Example sentences of "were too [adj] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My parents were too poor to be able to give one another a birthday present each year , though there was always a present for each of us four children , Stanley , Laura , Edith and myself . |
| 2 | She thought murder and a cache of death-dealing drugs were too serious to be subject to petty considerations like that , but the Josephs and Maurin were not listening . |
| 3 | In the past , it often seemed that the fines were too small to be effective — the maximum fine a magistrates court can impose is £2,000 . |
| 4 | Years later her increasing helplessness was causing unhappiness at home , yet there was still no one to whom she could turn : her parents had died ; her children had left her ; her sister was in Canada ; the family doctors and hospital doctors were uninterested ; and , apart from arranging adaptations to her house , social services were too overworked to be accessible . |
| 5 | The great linden tree , the traditional place for a village parliament , was lopsided even now from missing branches , and the nearest farmhouse was patched with un-matching brickwork and some of the window frames were too square to be old . |
| 6 | For larger systems the bundles of energy were too numerous to be countable . |
| 7 | The Liberal politics were too ardent to be mere intellectual exercise . |