Example sentences of "[subord] too [adj] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | His insistence that our sun should be preeminent also predisposed him toward the belief that previously invisible stars , now revealed by Galileo 's telescope , had been too small rather than too distant to be seen . |
| 2 | This had flowered and fruited and , although too late to be included in the Dictionary it might be brought into a later supplement because several new plants had been omitted once their initial letter had been passed in the main work . |
| 3 | It would , for example , be no defence for the seller to say that his farm fertiliser was perfectly safe and effective when applied in the right concentration ( at the right time of the year ) if the instructions supplied with the fertiliser stated in error the wrong concentration , whether too weak to be effective or so strong as to kill the crops . |
| 4 | Novels such as Mrs Gaskell 's represent the factory girls as too low to be taken into a lady 's house as servants and claimed that immoralities were rooted in the conditions of the mills . |
| 5 | Thoughtful pagans regarded the ethical demand of the Christian proclamation as too tough to be practicable , and feared that the proclamation of peace and love to enemies would make the empire pusillanimous in self-defence . |
| 6 | The theist will encounter doubts about the correctness of his or her belief , while the atheist will encounter similar doubts about disbelief Both theists and atheists have often seen a position such as this as too volatile to be credible . |
| 7 | Though too few to be presented as typical , examples such as these confirm that letting was apt to be of small parcels — commonly portions of tenements — for short terms . |