Example sentences of "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 .
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