Example sentences of "too [adj] for the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the angle was too acute for the veteran striker . |
| 2 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The sceptics argue that the cost of running rail services will prove too high and the return too low for the private sector . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I have sketched oak trees in Richmond Park all week — all my lines are too light for the thick solidity of their girth . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In the writings and arguments of ‘ experts ’ these problems are frequently represented as technical ones , and too specialised for the ordinary person to grasp . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | What do you do at the end of the winter time and er spring arrives and it 's too warm for the electric blanket . |
| 15 | David Scott was not one of the more successful county politicians , and perhaps his attitude is a little too pure for the real world of eighteenth-century politics , but it represents , even if in an exaggerated form , the general political maxim that the politician performs friendly services for his friends without haggling over a bargain , or even implying that an understanding existed which might suggest that a vote was given for services rendered , or as in this case , for services which might be performed at a future date . |
| 16 | I believe , therefore , that Rousseau was right to look with apprehension on the fragmentation of society into a collection of interest groups , and to see that in such circumstances it is all too easy for the general interest , the good of the community as a whole , to be lost sight of . |
| 17 | Many people feared that the 1969 Act was too radical and would make life too easy for the young delinquent . |
| 18 | It can otherwise be all too easy for the blind child to be pushed and pulled about . |
| 19 | The pressure is seen as too burdensome for the black kid , who ‘ buckles under ’ it and withdraws into his enclave complaining about ‘ Babylon ’ and its inequalities but without doing anything about them . |
| 20 | Even worse , the curves into the new depot were too tight for the 4-wheel cars to enter , and had to be relaid . |
| 21 | Philips said the sale was agreed because Matsushita Electronics was becoming too large for the joint venture status to be appropriate . |
| 22 | The ferocious-looking spines , which seem almost too large for the central animal , are mostly attached , but one or two have come adrift . |
| 23 | Right : Silver Sharks , and Kissing Gouramis grow too large for the ordinary community tank — as a good dealer will tell you . |
| 24 | Connected to the pool is a large anteroom with a sophisticated architectural design and the elaborate bath-house would appear to have been too large for the modest size of ‘ house ’ . |
| 25 | The example also illustrates what happens when the number is too large for the chosen precision . |
| 26 | Furthermore , the packets were too costly for the average people to buy , conflicting with the second criterion . |
| 27 | He openly suggests that satire as a literary device was too sophisticated for the common people to use . |
| 28 | ( Graves 's book , presumably , was too opaque for the self-appointed custodians of thought who objected to Michele Roberts . |
| 29 | Moreover , the smallest denominations to be produced in any quantity , the silver obol and electrum 1/96-stater ( about the same value as a silver obol ) , were too valuable for the everyday needs of retail trade . |
| 30 | In a number of instances , the program lines are too long for the printed page . |