Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun pl] [be] too " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some wasps will flail about , seeking a target for their stings , but to no avail for the ants are too small . |
| 2 | The fares for the trains are too expensive . |
| 3 | He also introduced Corbett who felt many of the lords were too busy to acknowledge him though he noticed Bishop Wishart of Glasgow , a wizened little man with a face as brown and as wrinkled as a shrivelled walnut , studying him intently beneath heavy-lidded eyes . |
| 4 | When let out to private contractors , corruption and harsh treatment of the paupers was too often added to failure . |
| 5 | According to the itinerary Wednesday was a rest day but after a half-hearted attempt at browsing around the Keswick shops we decided that the call of the fells was too strong to resist and headed for the Langdales . |
| 6 | Some of the runs are too narrow . |
| 7 | On the other hand , he thought , if they did see them , most of the girls were too tactful to say anything . |
| 8 | The story of the Scouts is too familiar to require further repetition , except in so far as some acknowledgement of the movement is worthwhile in order to complete this description of the range of voluntary youth provision in the period . |
| 9 | Most of the friends were too old or too physically enfeebled to be capable of offering themselves for military glory . |
| 10 | But some of the lasses were too embarrassed to say . |
| 11 | All but a couple of the bidders were too preoccupied to notice the latecomers . |
| 12 | Technical innovation had slipped ; markets had been eroded in various ways ; some of the products were too mature for growth . |
| 13 | At the battle of Solway Moss the superior numbers of the Scots were too disorganized to withstand the English troops . |
| 14 | Under the Net and Lord of the Flies are too philosophical to be called angry , Golding ( in any case ) was always seen to be a spirit apart , and a few of these authors were strikingly young at their moment of first success . |
| 15 | Banding is acceptable , but some of the bands are too wide and a further band within the £12,500 to £19,499 range should also assist in reducing the adverse impact on cars in the higher price range . |
| 16 | Perhaps some of the performances are too reverential ? |
| 17 | Perhaps some of the performances are too reverential ? |
| 18 | The defeatists felt that the power of the torturers was too great to try to combat ; the purists were too busy discussing semantics to take up the real problems ; the perfectionists thought that the data on human rights was too imprecise to be used for high quality research ; the paradigm thinkers believed that massive political and social changes would be necessary before torture could be stopped ; many other concerned persons were involved in other cases , such as environment , ecology , animal rights , etc . |
| 19 | None of the films are too long to outstay their welcome , but there are n't any real home runs in the batch , which range from the slickly professional ( Rosebud ) to the endearingly rough-and-ready ( Public Enemy/Private Friends ) . |
| 20 | By 1933 , the audience was already sophisticated enough to enjoy , in The Fatal Glass of Beer , scenes that deliberately emphasized the artificiality of the process , as when W C Fields half-heartedly drives his team of male mute dogs across the frozen Northern wastes of the Yukon , prospecting for gold — though one of the dogs is too small for its legs to reach the ground . |
| 21 | The rest of the details are too grisly to describe . |
| 22 | Having chosen the frame , I wanted a plain light background that would clearly show off the design , so I used a fairly heavy cream fabric — very often I avoid white backgrounds as the contrast with the flowers is too stark and harsh . |
| 23 | Not only did the street fill with sirens and blue lights like an episode of Kojak , the cops that piled up the stairs were too fat to get through the attic space and pursue the men . |
| 24 | Although in some subject areas there were complaints that proposals from the colleges were too ‘ traditional ’ ( and a belief by some colleges that this was the best way to ensure success with the ‘ traditional ’ members of subject boards ) , there were developments unrelated to specific subjects that were new and — in validation terms — difficult . |
| 25 | All that noise and energy from the children was too stark a contrast to how she felt : numb , disconnected , cold . |
| 26 | A few reckoned couples in the videos are too good looking . |
| 27 | Hering 's concepts are of general value although patients often improve gradually without the directions being too obvious or without any recurrence of old symptoms . |
| 28 | If she was put into skischool for half a day then one adult had to forgo any skiing for that period , since after delivering the child to the skischool meeting place in the centre of the village the travelling time to the slopes was too long to be able to go up , ski and be back down in time to pick up the child from the skischool in the centre of the village again at the end of her lesson . |
| 29 | Yeah , but Stanton on the Wolds is too small , we 're trying to link them in with Keyworth and it might well be he could do Tollerton as well . |
| 30 | The benefits received by the satraps were too great for any of these checks to be necessary . |