Example sentences of "have been too [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Emily would have been too strong for me . |
| 2 | Although insufficient to provide the full service , these bogie cars were worked hard on the main line and sometimes worked to Thornton Heath but never to Addiscombe or Penge , where they might have been too long for some of the passing loops on these lines . |
| 3 | Walking down the aisle would have been too tame for Timothy , a carnival gaming agent from Florida , and Nony Tedjakasume , a computer analyst from Jakarta , Indonesia . |
| 4 | ‘ I half-expected it because the Federation was n't going to admit to making a mistake , because after the Butch Reynolds case it would have been too expensive for them . ’ |
| 5 | The Panel agreed it would have been too traumatic for the children to bring them back . |
| 6 | If the 1957 explanation was false , the theory runs , then the subsequent loss of face would have been too great for a correction to be issued in Gromyko 's lifetime . |
| 7 | The size of the taps throughout the house is one of the few exceptions to scale , as an exact one twelfth in the plumbing system would have been too small for water to run through the pipes . |
| 8 | If SI units had been used results would have had to have been reported by height , age , and sex separately and the sample size would have been too small for useful analysis . |
| 9 | No safe key ; it would have been too large for the key-fold . |
| 10 | I got up to go to the toilet but they er must have been too quick for me , . |