Example sentences of "too [adj] for [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was an eerie place , full of strange sounds and dank smells and things too frightful for a small boy to contemplate . |
| 2 | But the angle was too acute for the veteran striker . |
| 3 | The other pointed to ‘ inappropriate ’ institutions of government , arguing that the judicial system was too advanced for a backward people . |
| 4 | If anything , Ambassador is perhaps a little too strong for a three-day event horse … ’ |
| 5 | After finding no takers for the painting at £4 million , Lady Cook consigned the painting to Christie 's for sale in April 1989 acting against the advice of her advisor Stephen Somerville , who cautioned that the powerful subject might be too strong for the average clientele ( ‘ Not many people would want an expensive picture of a man with a noose around his neck ’ , said one prominent member of the Old Master community , ‘ unless , of course , they 're into bondage ’ ) . |
| 6 | In the women 's race it was again a junior — 16-year-old Sinead Jennings from Letterkenny — who proved too strong for the senior opposition . |
| 7 | If the ball is too far away to trap normally , just press and release the fire button — as long as it 's too low for a diving header , you 'll execute a sliding tackle . |
| 8 | If the lavatory is too low for an elderly person , a raised polypropylene toilet seat which fits over it , but is easy to remove and to wash , can be very useful , and a chromium-plated hand-grip fixed very securely to the wall at the side of the lavatory can also be helpful . |
| 9 | The sceptics argue that the cost of running rail services will prove too high and the return too low for the private sector . |
| 10 | However , the temperature today at the base of the Cytherean exosphere rarely exceeds about 300 K , which is too low for the thermal escape of very much hydrogen even over 4600 Ma , and chemical escape might not make a lot of difference . |
| 11 | But the house is too overcrowded for an extra person . |
| 12 | ‘ The bridge was too high for a good angle anyway and the fact that it blocked the view of so many meant that the atmosphere never developed properly , so that the cameras had nothing convey . |
| 13 | Trading in the company 's shares was hectic and the 3.5 million Saatchi shares that changed hands by closing time is too high for a simple ramp . |
| 14 | Bates entered his third final in an uneasy mood , stating his opinions about a fine which he considered to be too high for a verbal abuse offence — this did affect his performance . |
| 15 | He considered that a multiplier of 12 was substantially too high for the ordinary case of a man dying at age 53 , leaving a widow of 52 and a child of 18 . |
| 16 | The role of Treasurer over the years has grown from overseeing simple book-keeping to an extensive involvement and the contributions of Leslie Wise , A.J. Chapman , Albert ( Bert ) Ford and currently Jim Grey , have been valuable indeed and it is not surprising that Arthur Chapman felt the work was too demanding for an Honorary Treasurer , although what each does might vary depending on what bias the secretary brings to his post . |
| 17 | Today 's Eastern Europe is too messy for a tidy plan . |
| 18 | You 're not too old for a good smack . ’ |
| 19 | At 41 , the experts told Liliana she was too old for a natural birth . |
| 20 | Nicholson could not now appear in the film because he was too old for the original role which had been designated for him , and anyway he wanted to give it his fullest attention as director . |
| 21 | We have moved away from such remedies as being too brutal for a humane society and nowadays those who advocate them are seen as blimpish relics of an imperialist , authoritarian society which favoured cold baths and weals on the buttocks as character forming . |
| 22 | The admiration which churchmen such as Cardinal Arthur Hinsley and Bishop G. K. A. Bell of Chichester [ qq.v. ] had for Dawson involved him actively as vice-president in the Sword of the Spirit , a proto-ecumenical movement which , to his disappointment , proved to be too visionary for the Roman authorities of the time . |
| 23 | I have sketched oak trees in Richmond Park all week — all my lines are too light for the thick solidity of their girth . |
| 24 | Leonard recently referred to the memory of his father as ‘ a dark mass or mountain , ’ of which , clearly , the details were too painful for the young boy to register or the adult to express . |
| 25 | In the writings and arguments of ‘ experts ’ these problems are frequently represented as technical ones , and too specialised for the ordinary person to grasp . |
| 26 | Labour 's policies would be mercilessly attacked , but the personalities would receive the ‘ Ashdown treatment ’ — in other words , sex scandals apart , they would be regarded as far too bland for a no-holds-barred hatchet job . |
| 27 | It is not wise to write , as some have done , of an expanding middle-class market for an ever-widening range of manufactured goods , for " middle-class " is a nineteenth-century usage and too restrictive for the eighteenth century . |
| 28 | The old Microsoft Disk Operating System — MS DOS — now used by some 80 million PCs , is too limited for the complex tasks demanded of computers today . |
| 29 | But it is too early for a balanced assessment of Stockhausen 's place in 20th-century music . |
| 30 | I would suggest it is too early for the Working Group to take a definitive view -Divisions may have to respond differently , it is not clear that consultancy is the answer , there still is opportunity to influence the size of the new authorities and then their structure and staff . |