Example sentences of "too [adj] for [adj] " 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 paddle is light and therefore not over strong ; even the clothing and buoyancy aids are especially designed and often not man-enough for white water touring and too garish for quiet flat water paddling . |
| 5 | The talk quickly became too technical for Sabine to follow , and Marie-Christine laughed at her bemused expression . |
| 6 | Of the remainder , another 25–35% will be too advanced for curative treatment and will turn out to be unresectable if surgery is attempted . |
| 7 | No fate is too cruel for voracious snails , here devouring Iris foetida |
| 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 | There were railway bridges close to the Beckenham boundaries , that at Beckenham itself being too low for double deck cars . |
| 12 | ( 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 ) . |
| 13 | The reliability of the individual subtests is regarded as ‘ too low for adequate prediction and diagnosis from individual profiles ’ ( Weener et al . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ Lime Green ’ from Unwins is by far the best colour , but at 2′ ( 60cm ) the plants are too tall for small pots . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The fees charged by lawyers were said to be too high for ordinary people to afford . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Today , emissions are overall lower but remain too high for sensitive ecosystems to bear . |
| 20 | It can not live on timber with a moisture content of less than 25 per cent and thus is usually found in situations too damp for dry rot . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Anker Simmons ' main sporting interest was the river and perhaps at 50 he thought himself too old for new tricks . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He himself was considered too old for general naval duties so he began to teach these young folk to be first class fishermen . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He was forty-seven , too old for military service yet young enough to feel that something more was required of him than the life he had hitherto led . |
| 27 | But now I feared I was getting too old for romantic friendships . |
| 28 | Ian Witten 's Principles of Computer Speech is too detailed for general study , but could form the basis of a final-year option . |
| 29 | She felt that , even by Nora 's standards , Constance was too headstrong for romantic liaisons . |
| 30 | There are even crampons with a single front point , specifically designed for use on pure ice such as frozen waterfalls , but these are too specialised for general use in this country . |