Example sentences of "too [adj] to be [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Matters were not helped by the Sabina Park authorities providing one sightscreen that was too low to be of much use if the bowler was over six feet ( 1.8 metres ) tall , and when England complained after the game against Jamaica the reply was that it could not be raised without obscuring the view of some two hundred people who had already bought tickets . |
| 2 | It has already been suggested that comment in C under 1020 , 1023 and 1030 was added from other sources , and E's entry on Archbishop Wulfstan 's death in 1023 could have come from an Easter Table entry , although the additions made by D and E to 1022 , and by D alone to 1023 , seem too extensive to be from such a source . |
| 3 | Wendler recognises that object-oriented technology will play a central role in the distributed management systems of the future , though it is too immature to be of any real use at present , he says — ‘ the class definition stuff that OMG is working on now is much more important than the Object Request Broker . ’ |
| 4 | Despite the findings of the Dragon Project and other workers over the years , it is still too early to be at all dogmatic as to the nature of the energies at ancient sites or how they might operate . |
| 5 | The cross was too large to be of much help , and the words on the back of the map were no better . |
| 6 | By then a complete overhaul is often too late to be of much use . |
| 7 | This order was annulled on 26 October by the Smolensk guberniia party committee for being excessive and too late to be of any use . |
| 8 | By then it is too late to be of any good to anyone , and particularly dad . |
| 9 | Her cousin Elizabeth of Dorking 's £20 legacy was to arrive just too late to be of any comfort to her , and she died in the September , aged sixty-five . |
| 10 | In response to the news , Anglo United pulled out of the bidding for the company , explaining that the operation was now too small to be of any interest . |
| 11 | Combine these two flaws and there 's often a lack of players on-screen at one time — the scanner does n't help matters as it 's too small to be of any use . |
| 12 | ‘ … there are innumerable situations in which they [ tests of significance ] are totally unnecessary — because the difference is grotesquely obvious , because it is neglible , or because , whether it be formally significant or not , it is too small to be of any practical importance . |
| 13 | It was all at my fingertips and I was only too pleased to be of some assistance , from whatever quarter the request came . |
| 14 | Conversely , psychology itself has been in no shape to deliver the goods it promised : if educationists were atheoretical , psychologists for their part were producing theories which were too crude to be of much use to educational researchers . |