Example sentences of "too [adj] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blast is still going strong though , perhaps because its sound is too loud for wet fashion victims to handle . |
| 2 | Its bottom octave is too weak for ordinary use , though it is attractive when extremely lightly accompanied . |
| 3 | The great man himself is now 95 and too frail for any involvement . |
| 4 | Of the remainder , another 25–35% will be too advanced for curative treatment and will turn out to be unresectable if surgery is attempted . |
| 5 | His original intention was to do research in Political Geography , but Central Europe was at that time too political for such research to be practical . |
| 6 | Even without skipper Denis McBride , Scott Kirkpatrick and Stuart Duncan in the pack , and scrum half Stevie Cowan and centre Bill Harbinson , Malone proved much too strong for ineffective North in a repeat of last year 's final . |
| 7 | It is now considered too strong for internal use and can cause vomiting . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | There were railway bridges close to the Beckenham boundaries , that at Beckenham itself being too low for double deck cars . |
| 10 | ( 3 ) Rewrite the extract on p. 78 beginning " Moore states … " , so that its register is consistent ( and neither too high nor too low for academic writing ) . |
| 11 | The reliability of the individual subtests is regarded as ‘ too low for adequate prediction and diagnosis from individual profiles ’ ( Weener et al . |
| 12 | Country that is too dry for tropical forest but has enough rain to ward off desert contains scattered trees in a setting that is primarily grassland . |
| 13 | ‘ You 're getting far too tall for that pony . ’ |
| 14 | Mrs Lowes said : ‘ The plan shows Bellburn Lane as the proposed access but this is a quiet cul-de-sac and far too narrow for more traffic . |
| 15 | Water temperature of 84°F is too high for lush plant growth — many plants will not tolerate such high temperatures — and should be reduced to 78 or 80°f . |
| 16 | We were then too high for much detail , but it looked a general melee back where Mala had been . |
| 17 | The chances of these Communist tactics leading to the Third World War by 1953 were deemed too high for any complacency in Western capitals . |
| 18 | Fundamental to the stability of a system of taxation is the level at which people are asked to pay , and the switch from local to central taxation achieved by my right hon. Friend the Chancellor in his Budget was widely welcomed because it recognised that the tax burden had become too high for any system to sustain , and that is why he took steps to reduce it . |
| 19 | Prices are generally too high for any quality furniture that might be suitable for reworking . |
| 20 | It can not live on timber with a moisture content of less than 25 per cent and thus is usually found in situations too damp for dry rot . |
| 21 | The rock above me was too steep for any animal to find foothold on . |
| 22 | A single man might be useful for attacking the marauders that Winnie feared , but then he might expect his washing and ironing to be done , and his socks darned , and Winnie was beginning to feel rather too old for such mothering . |
| 23 | ‘ Only because you 're too old for that sort of thing . |
| 24 | He thought of following her and then changed his mind ; he was too old for that sort of gesture . |
| 25 | Or C , tell him you 're too old for that sort of mus , music ? |
| 26 | He was forty-seven , too old for military service yet young enough to feel that something more was required of him than the life he had hitherto led . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm getting too old for this kind of caper , Willi , ’ Busacher said testily . |
| 28 | When I 'm too old for this line , I reckon Europe should just about be ready for me . ’ |
| 29 | I 'm too old for this game . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Getting too old for this sort of thing , ’ he told himself . |