Example sentences of "and too [adj] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart , then , from those for whom the virtue of representative democracy is precisely that it restricts and restrains popular power , and even , as in Britain , involves the vesting of sovereignty in the representative institutions rather than in the people themselves the chief argument in defence of representative democracy has been an essentially pragmatic one : that it is the best that can be devised in the context of large societies where the citizens are too many and too scattered to be gathered together in one place . |
| 2 | ‘ They 're too big to be niche players and too small to be low-cost producers . ’ |
| 3 | We begin to see that life is too vast and too mysterious to be flattened into cheap explanations . |
| 4 | This order was annulled on 26 October by the Smolensk guberniia party committee for being excessive and too late to be of any use . |
| 5 | If this all sounds a bit old-fashioned and too good to be true , you have only to look at the happy faces of these children who thoroughly enjoy spending their weekends mucking out , cleaning tack and grooming , while waiting their turn to ride . |
| 6 | And too good to be true . |
| 7 | Far too tuneful to be described as hardcore and too noisy to be deemed a pop/punk band , The Venus Beads sit comfortably on the barbed wire fence in between . |
| 8 | Far too tuneful to be described as hardcore and too noisy to be deemed a pop/punk band , The Venus Beads sit comfortably on the barbed wire fence in between . |
| 9 | Under the glare of the fluorescent light the whole bizarre scene , Berowne 's sprawled body and severed throat , the clotted blood , the tramp propped like a stringless marionette against the wall , looking for a moment unreal , a Grand Guignol tableau too overdone and too contrived to be convincing . |
| 10 | The was occupied , against the wishes of the village , by the college , with no improvements to premises considered unsafe and too dangerous to be continued to be used as a public library . |
| 11 | Nevertheless some scholars have argued that his conduct was too inconsistent and too instinctive to be solely attributed to such influences . |
| 12 | These steps into new territory were too big and too risky to be undertaken by individual merchants . |
| 13 | But the truth is that floundering helplessly between two markets — too old-hat to be teeny-bopper and too twee to be taken seriously — Kylie needs a drastic career re-think if she is to avoid becoming a latter-day Lena Zavaroni . |
| 14 | The main point to realise is that if you can not feel a positive lock , you are either not pushing hard enough or the lock is completely out of adjustment and too light to be effective . |
| 15 | This time his lance struck accurately in the throat of his adversary 's helmet , too fast and too high to be warded off , and hurled the rider to the ground and his mount off-balance , dragged by the tightly-gripped rein , to roll upon his master . |
| 16 | I think I was actually too cold and too wet to be too worried about the outcome . |
| 17 | The pluralist forces within both the Western and the third-world Church are simply too strong and too lively to be tamed by a papacy with really quite limited weapons at its command . |
| 18 | Work is too important and too unsure to be obstructed by the uncertainties of not knowing what is expected and by whom , and by having to continually negotiate what one can do with individual power players . |
| 19 | ‘ The Ministry of Defence and Central Government established a team ten years ago when the disappearances became too frequent and too alarming to be ignored . |
| 20 | The fear is that Brightness is now too famous and too valuable to be set free . |
| 21 | The pyocyanases and the penicillia did not appear to harm patients , but they were too difficult to extract and too unstable to be useful . |
| 22 | We adopted a redundant sheepdog named Fly — sorry Ffly ; ‘ redundant ’ because she was too deaf and too blind to be worked any more . |