Example sentences of "too [adj] for [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 | Its bottom octave is too weak for ordinary use , though it is attractive when extremely lightly accompanied . |
| 3 | They are a little too garish for Western tastes , but possess a distinctive ethnic flavour , and the wool is good . |
| 4 | The great man himself is now 95 and too frail for any involvement . |
| 5 | Of the remainder , another 25–35% will be too advanced for curative treatment and will turn out to be unresectable if surgery is attempted . |
| 6 | No fate is too cruel for voracious snails , here devouring Iris foetida |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It is now considered too strong for internal use and can cause vomiting . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Even the federal analogy is too strong for most groups . |
| 12 | It may be just a little too strong for some people . |
| 13 | There were railway bridges close to the Beckenham boundaries , that at Beckenham itself being too low for double deck cars . |
| 14 | ( 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 ) . |
| 15 | The reliability of the individual subtests is regarded as ‘ too low for adequate prediction and diagnosis from individual profiles ’ ( Weener et al . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ Lime Green ’ from Unwins is by far the best colour , but at 2′ ( 60cm ) the plants are too tall for small pots . |
| 18 | ‘ You 're getting far too tall for that pony . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The roads are terrifyingly steep and on the map look like coils of intestines , which translated into reality become dizzying sets of hairpin bends , too narrow for two vehicles to pass in comfort at any speed . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The fees charged by lawyers were said to be too high for ordinary people to afford . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | We were then too high for much detail , but it looked a general melee back where Mala had been . |
| 25 | The chances of these Communist tactics leading to the Third World War by 1953 were deemed too high for any complacency in Western capitals . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Prices are generally too high for any quality furniture that might be suitable for reworking . |
| 28 | The headstock has the single butterfly-type string guide , to maintain a healthy break angle across the nut , which itself is nicely cut , if a mite too high for some tastes . |
| 29 | The price of integration of the British and American programmes had proved too high for both sides . |
| 30 | In general we could surmise some possible causes : lack of clear guidance either in ‘ help routines ’ within the program or as printed instructions in the documentation accompanying the program — lack of preparation , ie , reading the documentation , which may suggest the demands are too high for most teachers ( teacher 's guides are rarely read ) — poor ‘ driving system ’ within the actual program , ie , the central organization of the system does not match teachers ' needs — poor ‘ driving system ’ that either confuses the teacher through its complexity or , at the other extreme , is not flexible enough for him to achieve the flow of his planned lesson — poor ‘ driving system ’ that interrupts the presentation of relevant displays with detailed control instructions on the screen . |