Example sentences of "[noun] too [adj] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gustave Dore ( 1882–83 ) has paid the penalty of producing too many books too large for modern taste . |
| 2 | But because of the bureaucratic necessity to generalize and disregard distinctions too fine for large-scale enforcement and administration , some people are able to do better if they refuse to acknowledge the authority of this law . |
| 3 | It can not live on timber with a moisture content of less than 25 per cent and thus is usually found in situations too damp for dry rot . |
| 4 | But perhaps these explanations may be a little bit too versatile for modern tastes : |
| 5 | She had no intention of saying anything else ; in fact she had been quite undecided about answering him at all , but he looked just a bit too angry for outright defiance and he was decidedly bigger than she was . |
| 6 | There are few modern mixed routes here — the crags are just a bit too clean for good buttress climbing with its reliance on frozen turf and heather . |
| 7 | While other boys lived in cramped homes built back-to-back in cobbled streets , Frankie had his very own room in a mill-owner 's mansion too grand for common folk . |
| 8 | It seemed at the time too obvious for extensive formulation , but had they spelt it out it would have amounted to something like 2 . |