Example sentences of "too [adv] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He tried to say it was too much worry for him but I know him too well to believe that . |
| 2 | Water is a precious commodity too long taken for granted in the West . |
| 3 | Water is a precious commodity too long taken for granted in the West . |
| 4 | And yet this acute observer would describe the very same people — almost unaware of what she was observing — as physically overworked during times of busy trade , as eating and sleeping too little , as too physically exhausted for intellectual effort , at the mercy of ‘ the many chances of breakdown and failure meaning absence of physical comfort ’ . |
| 5 | Why should I say , ‘ T is yet too soon To seek for heav'n , or think of death ? ’ |
| 6 | Indeed it was possible that the obstacles to change in Britain were too deeply ingrained for any government to effect significant improvements . |
| 7 | Her heart did an annoying lurch at the sight of him , long legs dangling in the water , his face too deeply shadowed for her to decipher his mood . |
| 8 | " Englishing " sets store by faithfulness to the content and general structure of the poem ; does not oblige the translator to reproduce the prosody of the original , but does require the choice of something considered to be a metrical equivalent ; allows the translator some licence in supplying figures , metaphors , etc. , in compensation for those too deeply rooted for transplantation from the original language ; relates the translation to current notions of poetic language and form ( as , for example , Dr Johnson chose to put Horace into rhymed couplets , but C.S. Calverley , a contemporary of Tennyson , considered the " In Memoriam " stanza the most effective equivalent ) ; offers , consequently , something to be considered both as a poem from the original and as an original poem ; and attempts , in the widest sense , to place the adopted poem in the nurturing environment of the adoptive culture . |
| 9 | He was , perhaps , a little too smartly dressed for a holidaymaker , but the Point he was making was clear enough . |
| 10 | Unless you ‘ ve overstated the case there is a strong possibility that your guitar is too far gone for this treatment , so that professional help may be required . |
| 11 | The future , politically and economically , looks quite too far gone for anything but a divine intervention to help . |
| 12 | Even if Clinton sends a health-care bill to Congress soon , the 1993 legislative session is too far gone for the many lengthy hearings that must take place so that all can have their say . |
| 13 | Tomorrow was too far distanced for his mind to wait for the last piece of evidence — a mind so ceaselessly tossing , as it had been ever since Lewis — wonderful Lewis ! — had mentioned that seemingly irrelevant item in The Oxford Times . |
| 14 | It was only with enormous reluctance and great misgivings that even those most acutely aware of the evils of Nazism came to persuade themselves of what we , as beneficiaries of the Second World War , too often take for granted — that the catastrophe of another war was the lesser of two evils . |
| 15 | This presupposes that pieces are not too long and that they are properly rehearsed set-pieces rather than the meaningless meanderings which too often pass for improvisation . |
| 16 | It seems to bear out Mr Lamont 's criticism of important decisions too often taken for short-term publicity . |
| 17 | Too often taken for granted , the campaign against all-seater stadia is gathering pace and is uniting fans around the country . |
| 18 | But receptivity to new ideas is best achieved in organizations which have mutuality of trust where it is known that you will not be too harshly blamed for mistakes . |
| 19 | Wycliffe passed through into a large , well kept garden — too well kept for his taste : shrubs pruned , grass like a bowling green , edges trimmed . |
| 20 | Her clothes were very , very untidy , not very clean and not too well cared for … |
| 21 | IT is difficult to tell whether Tuesday 's leadership ballot in the Conservative Party has caused bad blood among the Thatcherites ; the Downing Street bunker is too well insulated for any sounds of strife to be audible outside . |
| 22 | But as minister of finance under Zahedi he had become too well known for negotiating the new agreement with the oil companies , and so the Shah had exiled him to the Washington embassy . |
| 23 | Where counselling is able to discuss some of these feelings it can have a more positive potential effect on elderly health than the tranquillizers and sedatives which are too readily and too frequently dispensed for older people who are sick . |
| 24 | There is a refreshing simplicity and tenderness in Motion 's account of the way Francis nurses her , but she herself is too sketchily drawn for the episode to carry much weight . |
| 25 | There is uncommon beauty , too , in the deep tuba and heavily veiled strings at the opening of the third movement , and whilst the boisterous middle section is still too tightly reined for my taste , such startling details as the piccolo streaking the texture and the Philharmonia 's intrepid first horn whooping for joy into the climax are memorable . |
| 26 | The transformation of Britain that has taken place in the past 13 years is too readily taken for granted by some of those who have most richly reaped the rewards : the new home owners , the new share-holders , the employees freed from the shackles of militant trade unionism , the NHS patients who have felt the benefits of fund-holding GPs and self-administered hospitals , parents who have witnessed their children thrive in grant-maintained schools . |
| 27 | With the outbreak of hostilities , it had been too strategically placed for alien ownership , and the king had reclaimed it as a royal demesne . |
| 28 | Also it was too elaborately trimmed for the country . |
| 29 | Unfortunately handwriting is often too poorly formed for such techniques to work reliably . |
| 30 | Therefore , though T a is known , J 2 and f are too poorly known for the calculated range of possible values of C to provide a useful constraint on density models . |