Example sentences of "[noun] too [adj] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Images that fill the corridor , packed with images too small to see with the naked eye . |
| 2 | At the end of a caution period ( ie , a period of brief interruption in the race ) , Mr Mansell was a fraction of a second too slow to respond to the green flag restart . |
| 3 | Channel 4 did so , with early programmes attracting audiences too low to register on the ratings . |
| 4 | There were , of course , plenty of people who did not view catching a plane at the shriek of dawn , fighting for a patch of sand big enough to spread a handkerchief , suffering appalling hangovers from over-indulgence in Spanish ‘ champagne ’ , and arriving home burnt to a painful scarlet wearing a ridiculous hat and clutching a straw donkey too big to stand on the television , as travel . |
| 5 | Are our organs of government too crude to deal with the conflicting claims of the myriad small communities that make up the whole ? |
| 6 | Just because I do n't go around laughing my head off all the time or … or spending money on bunches of flowers too big to fit into the car , it does not mean that I am cross . ’ |
| 7 | A year too early to benefit from the National Health Service at this stage in my life , I arrived in a maternity home in Govan with the assistance of nursing sisters . |
| 8 | But they reached East Prussia too late to intervene in the coming battle . |
| 9 | The boys go to school every day — there 's a tiny place in Clyst St George — but they 're at large all the afternoon , and they 're getting a bit too obstreperous to have about the place . |
| 10 | Stones too large to pass through the Amplatz sheath were fragmented by intracorporeal electrohydraulic , or ultrasound lithotripsy and removed piecemeal . |