Example sentences of "[is] too [adj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This procedure might be criticized on the grounds that the sample is too small to justify it . |
| 2 | On the other hand , a sack which is too small to carry what you need will be a nuisance , and uncomfortable to wear if crammed full . |
| 3 | While most reggae DJs rapidly rise in popularity only to sink within a year , Shabba 's following has swelled over the past four years to a point where the reggae market is too small to contain him — witness the shooting and tear gas panic last year at the Brixton Academy , or January 's trashing of Tower Records , London , during a personal appearance . |
| 4 | Although it is too early to say what impact it will have on the discipline , it has stimulated a powerful line of thought , and one which will concern us in later chapters . |
| 5 | It is too early to say what the government response will be to this report in terms of committing resources and policy initiatives . |
| 6 | Well , I think that it 's , this is first year after the tremendous increase of fees which the Government imposed upon us erm last year erm increase about threefold , and erm it really is too early to say what has happened even this year . |
| 7 | The Vet School is also collaborating with pharmaceutical companies to develop drugs that speed tendon healing , and although the results are promising it is too early to say anything specific . |
| 8 | It is too early to judge its results . |
| 9 | It is too early to assess its general impact . |
| 10 | It is too early to discover what the effects of the new system in practice will be . |
| 11 | My first impression was this is too spectacular to think it happened . |
| 12 | ‘ I am just glad that Bradley is too young to understand what has happened . |
| 13 | ‘ The only problem I would have with the NICMA 's recommendations is that Laura is too young to understand everything that is explained to her , ’ she said . |
| 14 | A strong attack by an opponent against a fighter in a tall stance can force him to back off , because the stance is too weak to stand its ground . |
| 15 | The idea is that Penang will provide the skills and its poorer neighbours will provide the labour , although Mr Koh is too polite to put it that bluntly . |
| 16 | ‘ She is too polite to bore us with a travelogue . ’ |
| 17 | Often cancers of these organs are not discovered until it is too late to cure them : less than 8% of lung cancer patients are alive five years after diagnosis [ 2 ] . |
| 18 | ‘ It is too late to save you . ’ |
| 19 | These people will constitute those who are at greatest risk , in that such people can easily go missing from a large church without being missed until it is too late to recover them . |
| 20 | When she sees , to her astonishment , by the light of the lamp , that her mate is the god of Love , she does not attack him , but it is too late to stop him from flying away . |
| 21 | It is too late to help you . |
| 22 | The skinhead revival is too recent to present anything but a confused picture to the observer . |
| 23 | At present our knowledge is too inadequate to allow us to quantify all of the many variables involved in cost-benefit analyses of pollution effects and pollution control . |
| 24 | Lancelot , although befriended by a hermit , can not be brought back to a normal state of mind because the hermit is too poor to feed him properly , and ‘ for defaute of sustenance he waxed more wooder than he was aforetyme ’ , and became violent , breaking the legs and arms of those who tried to help him . |
| 25 | Teachers and schools , however well resourced and staffed , can only do so much to counter the effects of social disadvantage , and it is too easy to use them as scapegoats for the failure of political and economic policy . |
| 26 | I am often asked why I go night fishing , and it is too easy to say it is because my chances of catching big fish are greatly increased at night . |
| 27 | Otherwise , it is too easy to imagine what might happen next . |
| 28 | ‘ If the rain gets heavier there wo n't be any tracks to follow , and , even if there were , ‘ t is too dark to see them . ’ |
| 29 | JEWKES : I could tell twenty pleasant stories but my lady is too nice to hear them . |
| 30 | ‘ She summoned you here , and it is only right that you should know the reason , albeit she is too unwell to see you herself . |