Example sentences of "too [adv] [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They speed up the rates of interconversions of compounds that would otherwise proceed too slowly to be useful . |
| 2 | It was too soon to be fitzAlan , she told herself , reason overwhelming her first impulsive hope . |
| 3 | It is too soon to be sure that any such desecration has been avoided , but the excellent scheme by Allies and Morrison which has now been adopted is already on course for completion by the arrival of the Tall Ships in 1992 . |
| 4 | As yet it is too soon to be sure of what happened . |
| 5 | While ‘ it is too soon to be sanguine ’ , the board says , it believes the worst is over for its portfolio , and that with the benefit of devaluation for the whole of the second half , earnings for the full year should allow the trust 's record of dividend progress to be maintained . |
| 6 | ‘ While it is too soon to be certain that there will be an appreciable improvement in the UK economy this year , the early signs are encouraging , ’ said the board . |
| 7 | Today we are moving towards more equal and mutual ways of arranging our lives , but it is still too soon to be able to see clearly how this may change our ideas of ‘ masculinity ’ and ‘ femininity ’ . |
| 8 | It is none too soon to be aware of the tests we may face , but our defence will not lie in brilliant , far-sighted anticipation of specific pressures and persecutions . |
| 9 | In the urban fringe it has already been shown in Chapter 3 that recreation can have an adverse impact on farming , but other work has shown that the 500 or so informal recreation sites which cover 5.7 per cent of London 's Green Belt ( Ferguson and Munton , 1979 ) are not heavily used by either car-owing suburban dwellers ( who leapfrog over the green belt into so-called proper countryside since they perceive the sites as being too near to be worthy of a special car trip ) or by carless inner city residents ( who spurn the use of public transport ) ( Harrison , 1983 ) . |
| 10 | Without disparaging the spiritual discipline practised in the Lugard home , it seems fair to say that young Freddy , who even then possessed a lively truculence , studied too assiduously to be good . |
| 11 | Judging from the number of Londoners who ended by having to pay more than they were initially assessed for , this refrain could have been sung a bit too often to be convincing . |
| 12 | Dustin 's transition after his wife 's rape from passive to active , from Clark Kent to Superman , comes about too smoothly to be credible . |
| 13 | They spoke rather too loudly to be natural . |
| 14 | Five hundred years on , the Seldon plan is working too well to be true : the First Foundation deduces ( again ) the existence of the second , the second that of … a third ? |
| 15 | Patrick suddenly found himself standing in the hallway , his heart tripping frantically , his breathing too fast to be comfortable . |