Example sentences of "too [adj] [prep] [adj] [noun] " 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 | The aim is to be aware of the contrast between a voice volume that is too loud in ordinary circumstances and the voice volume that is suitable for ordinary conversation but using feeling instead of ( or as well as ) hearing to monitor the loudness . |
| 3 | Its bottom octave is too weak for ordinary use , though it is attractive when extremely lightly accompanied . |
| 4 | But they will just as surely have died because they were too weak in political muscle to be able to fight back . |
| 5 | They are a little too garish for Western tastes , but possess a distinctive ethnic flavour , and the wool is good . |
| 6 | Now such a meal , as any dietician will tell you , is far too rich in nitrogenous substances , since fish has just as much assimilable albumen as meat , and contains a great deal more phosphorus … " |
| 7 | Of the remainder , another 25–35% will be too advanced for curative treatment and will turn out to be unresectable if surgery is attempted . |
| 8 | No fate is too cruel for voracious snails , here devouring Iris foetida |
| 9 | He was , along with ( Sir ) Charles Arden-Clarke and Edward ( later Baron ) Twining [ qq.v. ] , one of the ‘ young guard ’ of governors , carefully picked by the Colonial Office to replace an older generation like Arthur Richards ( first Baron Milverton ) and Sir Philip Mitchell [ qq.v. ] who , in the eyes of such architects of decolonization as ( Sir ) Andrew Cohen [ q.v. ] and his master , Arthur Creech Jones [ q.v. ] , were too rooted in pre-war attitudes to adapt enthusiastically to the new spirit of social engineering and transfer of power . |
| 10 | Such variables are too specific to industrial relations to be included in the flashpoints model of public disorder . |
| 11 | Freshly made tea , coffee ( not too many , not too strong with skimmed milk and no sugar ) |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It is now considered too strong for internal use and can cause vomiting . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | There were railway bridges close to the Beckenham boundaries , that at Beckenham itself being too low for double deck cars . |
| 16 | ( 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 ) . |
| 17 | The reliability of the individual subtests is regarded as ‘ too low for adequate prediction and diagnosis from individual profiles ’ ( Weener et al . |
| 18 | It is just possible that a diet too low in certain foods will produce iron and calcium deficiency . |
| 19 | ‘ Peregrine , sweetest one , do n't be too bloody to poor Nigel . |
| 20 | When we deny autonomy to our 10-year-old , are we too guilty of bad faith ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ Lime Green ’ from Unwins is by far the best colour , but at 2′ ( 60cm ) the plants are too tall for small pots . |
| 23 | Most buddleias will be too tall for restricted sites , but the sweet-scented species B. fallowiana is better behaved and its hybrid ‘ Lochinch ’ — crossed with the common butterfly bush — has silvery foliage and soft blue flowers . |
| 24 | We will encourage enhanced recovery of oil from the North Sea and avoid becoming too dependent on imported fuel . |
| 25 | This last kind of connection , though it is sometimes treated as a kind of cohesion ( Halliday and Hasan 1976:28–7 ) , is really too dependent upon individual experience and knowledge to be treated as a formal link . |
| 26 | Europe and the Commonwealth were too dependent upon American power to risk separation . |
| 27 | He was too high on exultant relief to be deflated so easily . |
| 28 | Defect rates are still too high on large wafers to mass produce products at reason able prices . |
| 29 | The fees charged by lawyers were said to be too high for ordinary people to afford . |
| 30 | 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 . |