Example sentences of "were too [adj] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Junior Leaders Regiment Royal Artillery , Bramcote , were too strong for the British Military Hospital , Rinteln , to emerge 13–0 winners of the Schweppes Army Minor Units Cup . |
| 2 | Even the existing States were too small for the emerging economy . |
| 3 | Furthermore , the packets were too costly for the average people to buy , conflicting with the second criterion . |
| 4 | He favoured elaborately tied cravats in white cambric , but these were too difficult for the middle-class man of Victorian times to be bothered with . |
| 5 | Leonard recently referred to the memory of his father as ‘ a dark mass or mountain , ’ of which , clearly , the details were too painful for the young boy to register or the adult to express . |
| 6 | Even worse , the curves into the new depot were too tight for the 4-wheel cars to enter , and had to be relaid . |
| 7 | Moreover , the smallest denominations to be produced in any quantity , the silver obol and electrum 1/96-stater ( about the same value as a silver obol ) , were too valuable for the everyday needs of retail trade . |