Example sentences of "[verb] too [adj] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had come too late to be effective . |
| 2 | But it feels strange : when you look at it in the bowl , it looks too runny to be fun , but when you touch it , it 's the squelchiest , stickiest sensation ; it turns to spaghetti when you let it drip through your fingers and it 's stodgy enough to make into patterns , swirling in different colours and practising making faces , people , letters and numbers . |
| 3 | Or a pregnant girl may wait too long to be able to have one legally , or may be afraid of what her family will say . |
| 4 | Ginny used to think that Carinish Court tried too hard to be something that it was n't . |
| 5 | Their penchant for turning defence into attack is well-known but Antrim could have their measure this time round although that might be considered too good to be true in some quarters . |
| 6 | Nurses will not take on tasks considered too menial to be done by medical staff , doctors have been warned . |
| 7 | Lastly , there is a ‘ Catalogue of large Trees which are admitted in the London Dispensary , but generally grow too large to be admitted into small gardens ’ . |
| 8 | The result is becoming too impenetrable to be viewed as anything but a plot against the public . |
| 9 | Times are changing and marketing agencies are now briefing their company-clients about the ‘ grey consumer ’ , whose custom is becoming too valuable to be ignored . |
| 10 | The meaning of such affinities is obscure , but they appear too regular to be just coincidental . |
| 11 | A threshold could then be determined beyond which certain combinations could be deemed too infrequent to be worthy of inclusion within the dictionary . |
| 12 | One lord justice of appeal appointed in 1984 , Sir David Croom-Johnson , was seventy when he took up his post , the age at which mere mortals are deemed too doddery to be trusted on jury service . |
| 13 | While he believed that football had grown too complex to be a mere ‘ director 's hobby ’ , Chapman set out to foster harmonious relations at the very top , by acting in a spirit of co-operation with his directors , keeping them fully informed of team matters , and taking their suggestions into account . |
| 14 | Later on they would be joined or replaced by others whose services were equally important but who came too late to be captured on canvas . |
| 15 | It seemed too good to be true — I was going to Scarborough . |
| 16 | It seemed too good to be true and when Robyn had said all that was necessary she sat back and eyed him with suspicion . |
| 17 | It seemed too good to be true . ’ |
| 18 | Not a houseman — he seemed too confident to be a mere houseman . |
| 19 | Its procedures often seemed too specific to be worth the candle of locking someone up . |
| 20 | But not that curious ; she seemed too tired to be very interested . |
| 21 | When David Wood discovered his circle of churches at Rennes-le-Chateau in France , in 1982 , it was a remarkable discovery — that four ancient churches , a chateau and a megalithic feature stood exactly on the perimeter of a gigantic circle seemed too miraculous to be true . |
| 22 | Nobody doubted the fact of progress , both material and intellectual , since it seemed too obvious to be denied . |
| 23 | It seemed too modest to be profitable . |
| 24 | Even to Harry , then , her reaction to Clare Mallender 's death seemed too sincere to be ignored . |
| 25 | Thus , questions about the names of politicians or the days of the week may appear too childish to be taken seriously , whereas discussion of daily activities , and their purposes , may not . |
| 26 | The so-called leisure and recreation programmes would be the responsibility of the local authority and might become too small to be financially , organisationally or educationally viable . |
| 27 | Today the dominant question is whether a country that can draw on the manpower and technology of two advanced industrial countries could become too powerful to be accommodated inside the European Community where the leading nations , Britain , France and Italy , would have populations only half the size of a new Germany . |
| 28 | ‘ They just do n't come across as remotely manufactured although soon they 'll probably become too aware to be good any more . ’ |
| 29 | Your story would sound too ridiculous to be believed . |
| 30 | has advanced too far to be halted now , |