Example sentences of "too [adj] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are a little too garish for Western tastes , but possess a distinctive ethnic flavour , and the wool is good . |
| 2 | No fate is too cruel for voracious snails , here devouring Iris foetida |
| 3 | ‘ Lime Green ’ from Unwins is by far the best colour , but at 2′ ( 60cm ) the plants are too tall for small pots . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Today , emissions are overall lower but remain too high for sensitive ecosystems to bear . |
| 6 | I would like to be away from here , I am not too old for new surroundings , not so old that I feel dread and insecurity in the prospect of a change . |
| 7 | It was created for a group of mums who felt their babies were too old for new mums but not yet ready for the rough and tumble of open houses . |
| 8 | Anker Simmons ' main sporting interest was the river and perhaps at 50 he thought himself too old for new tricks . |
| 9 | If your ability to speak and understand English is limited , there is also the challenge of adjusting to new ways of living and thinking when you feel you are too old for major changes . |
| 10 | But now I feared I was getting too old for romantic friendships . |
| 11 | She felt that , even by Nora 's standards , Constance was too headstrong for romantic liaisons . |
| 12 | Hydrangeas are very good , but these have to come from the corporation nurseries as it is too early for outdoor ones . |
| 13 | Forrestal was a believer in the theory that it was too dangerous for atomic weapons to be manufactured and stored in the United Kingdom , where they could be overrun in a Soviet invasion of Western Europe . |
| 14 | There is a danger in letting the drama become too real for young children ; we do n't want the dragons and giants of the drama to follow them home and give them nightmares . |
| 15 | But perhaps these explanations may be a little bit too versatile for modern tastes : |
| 16 | It is only too easy for British students of public policy to lose sight of the importance of these issues . |
| 17 | It is all too easy for senior executives , especially in times of great pressure on business , to say that they have no time to devote to such activities for the community . |
| 18 | It is all too easy for Christian leaders to become increasingly cut off . |
| 19 | What steps , other than expressing sympathy and exhortation , will the Minister and the Government take to enforce interest payments on debt and to streamline court procedures , so that it will not be too burdensome for small businesses to pursue their creditors ? |
| 20 | It was thought that the fastest look-up would be achieved using a 26-way tree , so that was implemented , and found to be extremely efficient , but the memory overhead was too large for practical purposes . |
| 21 | Many of these are major landmarks rising high above surrounding houses , but often they are far too large for present congregations . |
| 22 | The release of information by the assistant was too fast for normal ears to follow , but the Sechem were trained to understand and to interpret for one another . |
| 23 | She had lived too long for random encounters to bother her and she was always grateful to the Holy Spirit when He sent something unusual to stir the convent to life . |
| 24 | In practice , however , they are contradictory , because the purpose of the rules is to produce a single solution to any accounting problem while economic reality , with which accounting purports to be concerned , is far too complex for unique solutions . |
| 25 | Strings of pack-animals ( up to thirty per string ) carried bulky loads when the distances involved were too great for cumbersome carts , or the job too urgent for river transport . |
| 26 | Its 55-seat SR.N6s , built in the mid-1960s , were too noisy for modern ears . |
| 27 | ‘ Poland is too poor for social experiments , ’ he likes to say . |
| 28 | Dr John Watkins , a GP in Rogerstone , Gwent , who has made a special study of flu , stressed yesterday that it was not too late for high-risk groups to be vaccinated . |
| 29 | The local RCM committees followed up in the wake of evacuation , but this was too late for orthodox children arriving at their billets on the evening of Friday , 1 September . |
| 30 | He 's too rough for civilized structures . |