Example sentences of "too [adj] to [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You are too callow to be aware of this but the term ‘ boxer shorts ’ is merely a marketing neologism , coined in order to revamp a demand for what in England was perceived as an outmoded type of underwear . |
| 2 | Please contact ( retiring only because Alex is getting too mobile to be safe for the new babies ) on for further details . |
| 3 | The students from that time remembered a man with a sharp sense of the ridiculous ; who ragged them but was too shy to be intimate with them though they liked him much for his friendliness and his humour ; who was famous for long , sudden , and embarrassing silences ; who was so eccentric that none of them believed that he could later be a man of distinction in England or his Church ; a man who loved theology — they never met anywhere else a man who so loved theology , and who regarded theology as the highest intellectual activity for humanity ; a fierce defender of liberty of opinion , for Marxists as for anyone else ; whose principal theme was the glory of God , and who was evidently touched by his ideas of Plato ; who did not give the impression of a mind of exceptional ability — there was not enough knife in the mind — but who gave the impression of being an exceptional person ; who disturbed other people 's prayers in chapel with convulsive fidgets and sudden face-rubbings — they regarded him as tense in his devotions and were afraid of a nervous breakdown ; who had a manifest and rare mystical sense of the immediate presence of God , a presence so brilliant that it could almost overpower . |
| 4 | On the one hand , it is argued that labour costs in advanced countries have become too high to be competitive for many industrial tasks . |
| 5 | Too old to be involved in this escalating round of violence . |
| 6 | They are too old to be worried about the physical changes that have taken place in them , but I also see that they share a certain self-regard , a comfort which — I hazard a speculation — is robbed from old people in our cities . |
| 7 | You have to accept the fact that she will not be feeling she has too much to be grateful about , when she ruminates on the loss of her home and some of her previous complete independence . |
| 8 | Rather disappointingly there is not too much to be scared of in summer . |
| 9 | It is all too easy to be cynical about British fashion , but his constructive criticism and public demand for action is long overdue . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's all too easy to be heroic with the lives of other people , ’ he told MPs . |
| 11 | Lord Justice Slade said that , in the case of ‘ sleepers ’ , it was all too easy to be wise after the event . |
| 12 | She thought murder and a cache of death-dealing drugs were too serious to be subject to petty considerations like that , but the Josephs and Maurin were not listening . |
| 13 | They wanted progress , but preferred to believe that the advances had taken place by a series of discrete steps , each too large to be compatible with any form of natural development . |
| 14 | Dougal was too cold to be choosy about the source of any spare heat . |
| 15 | Julia felt too ill to be interested in what he was doing , and in any case her mind came and went as the waves of fever rose and fell , but she heard Comfort say : |
| 16 | and now he 's too ill to be able to , to look after himself |
| 17 | We are not unfamiliar with situations where the best we can do in practice is to assign probabilities , not because events are fundamentally acausal but because their detailed mechanism lies at a level too deep to be accessible to us . |
| 18 | Finding ourselves too tired to be creative at the end of the day , we switched our lives around and put the ‘ thinking ’ hours first . |
| 19 | Too tired to be surprised by anything , Nenna looked at the davits and saw that the dinghy must have been lowered away already . |
| 20 | She was too tired to be aware of much except the slight headache which a long journey always gave her , yet she felt curiously light-headed and carefree . |
| 21 | ‘ Oh yes , please do ! ’ murmured Tess , too tired to be afraid of him . |
| 22 | Urquhart stared at her for a moment and then shattered into a hearty laugh , much too hearty to be genuine to Blanche 's ears . |
| 23 | There are therefore two problems with HCG62 : there are not enough baryons to explain all the dark matter but there are too many to be consistent with the simplest picture of cosmological nucleosynthesis . |
| 24 | Gas between the galaxies contains too few baryons to account for all the apparent mass but too many to be consistent with the simplest Big Bang models . |
| 25 | Their penchant for turning defence into attack is well-known but Antrim could have their measure this time round although that might be considered too good to be true in some quarters . |
| 26 | A threshold could then be determined beyond which certain combinations could be deemed too infrequent to be worthy of inclusion within the dictionary . |
| 27 | But Dr Dunstaple 's bitterness was too great to be satisfied with this armistice . |
| 28 | It 's just that I think sex is too important to be casual about . |
| 29 | Secondly , the induction time for the ulcer is too short to be compatible with a direct radiation ulcer and the anatomical consistency and histological appearances are not those of acute radiation sickness . |
| 30 | Typically the gain becomes too small to be useful at frequencies above ∼100 kHz . |