Example sentences of "an [noun] too [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact this individual found the stress of such an existence too much and was forced to leave his job . |
| 2 | And 32% said that they set up because they saw ‘ an opportunity too good to miss ’ , compared with only 25% of men . |
| 3 | I knew from Rex that his work in Swindon had mystified his contemporaries , so , when you turned up , the one man who might know all about it , it seemed an opportunity too good to miss . ’ |
| 4 | Some will think him a spiritual butterfly , some an intellectual too ready to be hoodwinked ; but his searching has a definite progress to it , and the heights and depths encountered in this book make it clear that he is getting somewhere , often against his own will and inclination . |
| 5 | Such an outcome would require continued development , which in terms of the return on the capital investment would either mean an instrument too expensive to use or the absence of a treatment modality . |
| 6 | In the frosty quiet he heard the sound of an engine too suave to belong to a resident , and peered over the parapet to see the men getting out of the car below . |
| 7 | He always insisted that ‘ an attempt was made to cut my throat but the razor slashed a quarter of an inch too high . |
| 8 | Eighty-four bolts used to secure the windscreen were 0.026 of an inch below the diameters of the specified bolts and another six were the correct diameter but 0.1 of an inch too short . |
| 9 | Hm Well your on that side and it 's half an inch too short is n't it ? |
| 10 | Locke , although not opposed to corporal punishment as a final sanction , nor indeed for very young children of an age too tender to be reasoned with , in order to instil the necessary fear and awe that a child should have for an adult , strongly disapproved of beating once formal education had begun , just as he was equally opposed to bribing the child to work through material rewards . |
| 11 | A coalition to buy a 51 per cent share of Koch Industries was trumped at the last moment when Charles approached the Marshall family , four per cent stakeholders , with an offer too good to reject . |
| 12 | Their great unpopularity may have been the consequence of the heavy financial burden they imposed on their employers ; their mere existence is proof that money was circulating fast in western Europe ; but that they were not always paid implies an economy too immature to support them readily . |
| 13 | Her momentary sulkiness fled as she relaxed into his embrace , an embrace too pervasive to be Maggie 's . |
| 14 | But analogizing , as we shall be arguing more fully in a later chapter , is an operation too fundamental to thinking to be escaped in philosophy or anywhere else , at any rate outside logic and mathematics . |
| 15 | ‘ . Vocal music should be monodic , as simple as such popular tunes as the ‘ Romanesca ’ ( see p. 237 ) or those of laudi and villanelle , with an accompaniment too simple to distract the listener . |
| 16 | an illness too limpid for the textbooks . |
| 17 | The latent thought is the notion that Gloucester may be plotting to murder him — an idea too horrifying to contemplate . |
| 18 | Any horse hitting one more than six inches from the top either fell or , at best , landed at an angle too steep for comfort . |
| 19 | New Testament studies have flowered to an extent too rich to summarize ; let one work stand for all : Brown 's magisterial commentary on the Fourth Gospel ( 1971 ) . |