Example sentences of "[was/were] too [adj] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Talented Hughes and ex-North Wales county team member Preston from Prestatyn were too strong for professional coach Arwyn Pierce of Ruthin and his young partner Danielle Morris Jones of Rhyl , running out straight set winners at a cost of six games . |
| 2 | Its 55-seat SR.N6s , built in the mid-1960s , were too noisy for modern ears . |
| 3 | The interaction of intense laser light with certain gases can produce extreme ultraviolet radiation , but the windows needed to keep the gas contained would absorb it , some ingenious ways were devised to amid windows , but they generally were too cumbersome for practical use . |
| 4 | Strings of pack-animals ( up to thirty per string ) carried bulky loads when the distances involved were too great for cumbersome carts , or the job too urgent for river transport . |
| 5 | Even at this early stage of motor car development the LNW built special vans to convey its rival ; the carrying trucks designed for horse-drawn vehicles were too small for modern cars . |
| 6 | Even when the forms of such things as halberds or hoe-blades were rendered in jade they were too delicate for functional use . |
| 7 | But the intervals between Forest Eyres were too long for effective control . |
| 8 | When cancers did respond , radiotherapy was particularly useful in dealing with secondary growths which were too widespread for surgical relief . |
| 9 | It was created for a group of mums who felt their babies were too old for new mums but not yet ready for the rough and tumble of open houses . |
| 10 | The dark eyes that swept over her were shadowed by heavily mascara-darkened lashes which contrasted with the white teeth gleaming from behind brilliantly red lips which were too thin for real beauty . |
| 11 | Harold Hughes , the director-general of the UK Offshore Operators Association , said that the measures were too complicated for immediate analysis . |
| 12 | The local RCM committees followed up in the wake of evacuation , but this was too late for orthodox children arriving at their billets on the evening of Friday , 1 September . |
| 13 | Only later , when she was in love with him and it was too late for common sense to qualify her feelings , did she learn more about him . |
| 14 | Indeed , when the film came out in 1971 , it was preceded by a clever advertising campaign suggesting that release had been delayed because the makers felt the movie was too dangerous for general viewing . |
| 15 | Forrestal was a believer in the theory that it was too dangerous for atomic weapons to be manufactured and stored in the United Kingdom , where they could be overrun in a Soviet invasion of Western Europe . |
| 16 | Although the Central Committee could be the centre for major political decisions ( as when Khrushchev ousted his rivals ) , it usually met too infrequently and was too unwieldy for major decision-making . |
| 17 | Well stirred by seals , Amos Lake was too murky for direct productivity comparisons with the other lakes . |
| 18 | Only four patients were given a combination of ursodeoxycholic acid plus chenodeyxholic acid : this group was too small for statistical scrutiny . |
| 19 | The release of information by the assistant was too fast for normal ears to follow , but the Sechem were trained to understand and to interpret for one another . |
| 20 | She felt that , even by Nora 's standards , Constance was too headstrong for romantic liaisons . |
| 21 | It was concluded that the reason for this was that the prospect of litigation against a trade union was too formidable for individual members . |
| 22 | It was thought that the fastest look-up would be achieved using a 26-way tree , so that was implemented , and found to be extremely efficient , but the memory overhead was too large for practical purposes . |