Example sentences of "[pron] too [adj] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finding ourselves too tired to be creative at the end of the day , we switched our lives around and put the ‘ thinking ’ hours first . |
| 2 | adversely affect your ability to carry out the duties required by the ES ( eg overlap with the time you are required to work for ES or leave you too tired to be able to carry out your ES duties properly ) ; or |
| 3 | There are two schools of thought : one is that studying English inhibits you and makes you too academic to be a natural , instinctive writer . |
| 4 | Auguste broke off , none too pleased to be interrupted on a mere matter of murder when he had been in a world of his own , exalted by the power of cuisine . |
| 5 | If you are going to be lightly humorous , skimming like a butterfly , then you will be ill served by a plot that is impossibly ingenious or a plot that has at its centre something too grave to be dealt with light-heartedly when , long after you have embarked on the actual writing , the moment comes to reveal all . |
| 6 | He cared for her too much to be impatient . |
| 7 | Is it too pure to be sullied by the messiness of domestic life ? |
| 8 | Well I think he would have enjoyed it too much to be quite honest with you that 's why I did n't do it . |
| 9 | If the School 's size had made it too small to be a " full comprehensive unit " , it also caused problems in that a two-form entry of 60 boys meant that some Sixth Form courses could not be economically viable . |
| 10 | The idea of diverting even one per cent of GNP to curtailing carbon dioxide emissions would seem to most of them too frivolous to be seriously entertained , unless , of course , someone else was willing to pay . |
| 11 | Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs . |
| 12 | In a water that is largely featureless it does n't need to be anything too pronounced to be attractive to fish . |