Example sentences of "is too [adj] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brightness is too famous to be free |
| 2 | Six weeks is too long to be away , ’ Buzz said , blowing on her tea to cool it . |
| 3 | Some are so widely separated that their motion relative to each other is too small to be measured at all , and all we can really say is that they are travelling through space together , at the same rate and in the same direction . |
| 4 | The lower frequency words exhibit statistically unstable behaviour , because the sample of contexts in which they participate is too small to be an adequate representation . |
| 5 | ‘ … there are innumerable situations in which they [ tests of significance ] are totally unnecessary — because the difference is grotesquely obvious , because it is neglible , or because , whether it be formally significant or not , it is too small to be of any practical importance . |
| 6 | The banks say the Phoenix survey is too small to be representative but insist it 's up to customers to check statements . |
| 7 | Certainly the weaknesses so far identified do not indicate any general shortfalls in the quality of audit work , the review says , but until the JMU has carried out more inspections and increased its database of information , it is too early to be more definitive . |
| 8 | It is too early to be sure whether this new technology will establish itself in our schools but , if you are investigating the potential of video in an institution , you should certainly know what videodisc is capable of . |
| 9 | It is too early to be entirely sure , but it looks as though the tide may well have turned . |
| 10 | ‘ Given the levels of consumer debt and the continuing rise in unemployment , it is too early to be sure we are seeing a sustainable recovery in consumer spending . |
| 11 | High street sales last month showed their strongest year-on-year growth since May , but Nigel Whittaker , chairman of the the Confederation of British Industry 's distributive trades panel , who carried out the survey , said : ‘ Given the levels of consumer debt and the continuing rise in unemployment , it is too early to be sure we are seeing a sustainable recovery in consumer spending . ’ |
| 12 | When serious consequences can follow from human errors , e.g. in flying an aircraft , or when on-line operation is too expensive to be trusted to the hands of trainees , e.g. in process control , there is obviously a case for providing training devices which simulate the performance of on-line systems . |
| 13 | We learnt not merely that the ’ woorerf ’ idea — which is unpronounceable and unspellable — can work , but that it is too expensive to be applied everywhere , even in the Netherlands . |
| 14 | For Regan , then , the partnership model is too imprecise to be a useful analytical tool ; hence the need for an alternative insight . |
| 15 | She must have known that anyone who tries to convey a message in rock music is brushed aside as being pompous or bombastic , because journalists in their King 's Reach Ivory Towers think rock is too sacrosanct to be tainted with the real world . |
| 16 | The totality of English grammar is too great to be studied in detail here ; there are numerous books on the subject . |
| 17 | The gap between provision and need is too great to be bridged rapidly and many shortcomings have continued to be revealed by the considerable glare of publicity directed at the local authority services for the handicapped . |
| 18 | This is too tremendous to be true , ’ breathed Captain Pugwash . |
| 19 | Although a court will generally strive to resolve uncertainties and ambiguities so as to give effect to a commercial contract wherever possible ( especially where the agreement is already partly executed ) , uncertainty or ambiguity may lead a court to conclude that the term is too uncertain to be enforceable , and in extreme cases the whole contract may be held to be void . |
| 20 | The boy , from Witham , Essex , is too young to be charged with a criminal offence . |
| 21 | The boy is too young to be locked up , but has persistantly run away when granted bail . |
| 22 | The apparently simple question ‘ Does the media influence voters ? ’ is too general to be meaningful . |
| 23 | This statement is too general to be meaningful . |
| 24 | Finnis remarks that the relationship between principles and decisions is too complex to be characterized as pure deduction and nothing else . |
| 25 | The shape and character of ethnic cultural formations is too complex to be reduced to formulas around festivals , religions , world-views and lifestyles . |
| 26 | Speranskii 's consequent package of reforms is too complex to be analysed in detail at this point , and has in any case been thoroughly investigated by Marc Raeff . |
| 27 | In a long briefing on the country 's military situation , General Ulomi said the Afghan army has proved since the Soviet withdrawal it is too powerful to be defeated and that the military option pursued by Pakistan and the US will fail . |
| 28 | It is true that his late play , the Bacchae ( produced in 405 B.C. , a year after his death ) , dealing expressly with Dionysus and the early opposition to his worship in Greece , is to be interpreted as a belated recognition that such opposition is in fact inadvisable : Pentheus , who opposes the god , is destroyed , and the poet impresses on us that Dionysus is too powerful to be ignored . |
| 29 | By then it is too late to be of any good to anyone , and particularly dad . |
| 30 | Unfortunately we know nothing about the predecessors of Spartokos , nor can archaeology help much , and we can not say whether dynastic troubles in the 450s might have caused shortages on the Athenian grain market ; the seizure of power by the Spartokids is too late to be relevant . |