Example sentences of "are too [adj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do not see why the advantages should not be extended to working class people whose wages are too low to bring them within income tax limits ’ ( my italics ) ( Labour Party/TUC , 1929 , para. 4 ) . |
| 2 | There is usually little they can do and , even if they could , the imprisoned creatures are too demented to thank them for it . |
| 3 | I do n't think the boys are too keen to have you around at the moment , and I ca n't say I blame them . |
| 4 | Although the sociologists and anthropologists are too polite to mention it , social codes in general including in these changing times whichever one was brought up in oneself by the preceding generation , can be seen from a sufficient distance to have been in large part shaped by gross delusions about the cosmos and about man , and by a brutal ignorance of everyone outside one 's own people , sex and class . |
| 5 | Parents may see danger when their children are too inexperienced to recognize it . |
| 6 | ‘ You have a heart just like other men , but you are too proud to show it ! ’ |
| 7 | There are many — kissing gates which are too small to allow me through , pathways which drop steeply at the edge so I ca n't move to the side to open the gate , well-meaning people who put deep grit or gravel onto the surface of the path , making my progress slow and tiring , and deep mud where horses and motorbikes have also used the path . |
| 8 | If you start with small frogs , make sure the fish are too small to eat them if they fall into the water . |
| 9 | Mr Abalkin rejected this also , saying that the distortions in the economy are too great to allow it to work properly . |
| 10 | ‘ And if you are too tired to write you must come to see me in any case , and then I shall know you are safe . |
| 11 | I am not suggesting that all such considerations are rationally run through and weighed up on every occasion ; they are too familiar to require it . |
| 12 | Or they marry , and passion dies because they are too trivial to sustain it . |
| 13 | Generally , though we may have the background threat of Gomez 's South American violence or past humiliation ( Maisie Mountjoy brings back the music hall again ) , the late plays are too conventional to take us again immediately from London to Kinkanja . |
| 14 | And if Dorothea is too good to accept a few semi-precious brooches and earrings , if you are too sensitive to wear them , very well , I will have them and I will wear them . |
| 15 | ( All the stories came from girls — Dr Kitzinger thinks boys probably suffer similar things but are too embarrassed to admit it ) . |
| 16 | The building is decrepit , the doors do not shut , the windows have no glass , some taps leak continuously , the staff are too embarrassed to show me the lavatories . |
| 17 | Your race is not suited to it — you see , your lips are too big to pronounce it . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ RRP will be introduced slice by slice so we can learn as we go along ; the risks are too big to put it in all at once . |
| 19 | And they while they reckon condoms , by far the most popular form of contraception for teenagers , are sensible they are victims of their own self-consciousness because they are too afraid to buy them . |
| 20 | Let's hope for Leeds ' sake that some of the doddery old gits in the FA are too scared to give it to Wilko . |
| 21 | They are too scared to hug them in case that innocent action is misinterpreted , and too scared to smack them when they do wrong in case they are accused of assault . |