Example sentences of "was too [adj] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although there was still two minutes to go , the Liverpool-born fighter was too experienced to be drawn into a mistake . |
| 2 | There was no path , and the ground was too stony to be described as a meadow . |
| 3 | The problem of working out how adaptations arose through evolution was too complex to be combined with detailed study of how those adaptations worked in the present . |
| 4 | His intention was to show that the interpretation of Scripture was too complex to be left to whoever happened to be reading it . |
| 5 | On the other hand , even if in Dunbartonshire Campbell influence was too powerful to be shaken by those who were resentful , in a county which was less securely held , and where a powerful opposition was in being , tactics like those of Colonel Campbell would have been an invitation to disaster . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , like his predecessors , Ethelbald [ q.v. ] and Offa , he had problems with the church , which was too powerful to be left uncontrolled , and Alcuin eventually felt obliged to commiserate with the abbess Æthelburga , Offa 's daughter , because ecclesiastics were ruled by tyrants not kings . |
| 7 | William Charles , the eldest son , had only recently left town for good , off to join his cousins in London ; young Benjamin was too young to be playing at soldiers , and Charles the Cheesemonger himself was a bit too old and certainly far too unhealthy to offer his services as a volunteer . |
| 8 | He had always said she was too young to be involved but had taken her with him at her own insistence . |
| 9 | I do n't recall it very well , for it happened before I came , and I was too young to be much interested , in any event . ’ |
| 10 | He was too young to be awarded a pilot 's certificate , but on November 16 he flew the Farman under the watchful eyes of Royal Aero Club observers and was granted pilot 's certificate No 368 . |
| 11 | She was too young to be away from home ; he should have been sure of her company for a few more years yet . |
| 12 | All businesses were examined except those where the technical complexity was too great to be understood by central corporate staff . |
| 13 | But as all the figures were multiplied by a factor of ten , the area was too great to be enclosed in the Mediterranean , so he placed it in the Atlantic ; and the date was put back into remote antiquity , thousands of years too early . |
| 14 | But Dr Dunstaple 's bitterness was too great to be satisfied with this armistice . |
| 15 | They thought Ludo was too stupid to be a threat to them . |
| 16 | I thought I was too clever to be kept at bay by his all-pals-together manliness , but I was wrong , Harry , so wrong it 's almost laughable . ’ |
| 17 | They remained so throughout their existence — the force of history and tradition was too strong to be resisted — but they gradually lost the sympathy of the world , which placed a higher value on convenience and common sense than on permanence and impossible loyalties . |
| 18 | But the burst of enthusiasm , which had support in several European governments , was too strong to be denied entirely . |
| 19 | The King of Blefuscu , however , replied that I was too strong to be taken prisoner , and that I would soon be returning to my country anyway . |
| 20 | ‘ Do n't cry , ’ said Melanie , who was too strong to be withered . |
| 21 | No doubt she would be doing the cycle irreparable damage , but the urge to ride it was too strong to be denied . |
| 22 | But her own was too strong to be set aside . |
| 23 | It was too late to be worrying over any implications inherent in spending Christmas with the Danbys and now the day had dawned Meredith was rather pleased she was going to be with company , especially after her sighting of the whatever-it-was during the night . |
| 24 | She was eighteen now , and it was too late to be a teenager . |
| 25 | Matters were not helped by the Sabina Park authorities providing one sightscreen that was too low to be of much use if the bowler was over six feet ( 1.8 metres ) tall , and when England complained after the game against Jamaica the reply was that it could not be raised without obscuring the view of some two hundred people who had already bought tickets . |
| 26 | Thus , the VSG promoter present in the construct was either inactive , or its activity was too low to be detected . |
| 27 | Thus , it may be that , in our case , the level of transcription from the VSG promoter was too low to be detected . |
| 28 | ‘ Because what was on board was too dangerous to be anywhere near land . |
| 29 | Many indicators suggested that reform was too dangerous to be allowed to continue and that the tsar 's capacity for embracing change had been exhausted . |
| 30 | ‘ You should have known it was too good to be true ! ’ |