Example sentences of "too [adj] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The opening Allegro assai is light and airy and would raise a few eyebrows even in the style-conscious 1990s , but the following movements are respectively too sleepy , too hearty and too metallic for comfort . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't know where my next penny is coming from , I really do n't , ’ she would breathe in her flat , light voice , as she sat hunched on the river bank , too hapless for despair , while our children played together among the drifting garbage at the water 's edge . |
| 3 | Pamela Chrimes had left for England and John wrote that Yvonne Blake ‘ is making an excellent Scarlet Woman , but her ankles are too weak for point shoes , so she 's doing it in high heels ; it looks quite nice . ’ |
| 4 | The man was too weak for chloroform and had to be held by two of the dispensers , yet he did not utter a groan throughout the operation . |
| 5 | Too soft for Business , and too weak for Pow'r : |
| 6 | Food was far too scarce for Julia to bear the thought of wasting any . |
| 7 | Too upset for sleep , I am forced to lie listening to the sounds . |
| 8 | I had n't noticed before , I was too upset for details like that . ’ |
| 9 | Arsenal are too strong for Tottenham . |
| 10 | South African too strong for holder Chang |
| 11 | Middlesbrough John Green , whose lightweight brother Andy had earlier won his semi-final , was too strong for Shildon 's Brian Wright in the welterweight final . |
| 12 | Taking it up two out , he proved too strong for Waterloo Boy . |
| 13 | Although the conditions up the slope were ideal for the more experienced , they were too strong for novice pilots . |
| 14 | Steve Finlay , at 4 , proved too strong for Darlington 's Colin Shields while first string Dave Lumsdon kept Durham in the match with a convincing 3–0 victory over Mike Hewitson . |
| 15 | Tony Gordon 's Kiwis , who will now find it difficult to go through the remainder of their tour undefeated , are not as tight and efficient a force as Graham Lowe 's team of four years ago , but with a virtual Test side out , should have been far too strong for Murphy 's collection of reserves . |
| 16 | Even then , the terms of the protests put forward by officials of his Chingford Conservative Association proved too strong for Norman Tebbit . |
| 17 | One other respect in which Pascal is a modem thinker is in his view , which he shared with the Jansenists , that language had proven too strong for mystery , so that theology had become merely a branch of rhetoric . |
| 18 | I is also rather costly and too strong for routine use by those on weight-loss programmes . |
| 19 | But it is not co-extensive with it : And it is certainly too strong for reformulations in discourse where segments which are presented as paraphrases are not always strict paraphrases . |
| 20 | His ( 1975 ) solution is to require that the two opposed elements have the same extension.4 However , this solution is too strong for phrasal appositions like the ones in [ 12 ] . |
| 21 | In the division 's other match , Oxted Green were far too strong for Rother who suffered the penalty prescribed by the rules for fielding an unregistered player . |
| 22 | Mowden finished fourth in Durham and Northumberland Division One , which will probably turn out to be one place too low for promotion . |
| 23 | At $17 a chip , the price of 4-megabit DRAMs is already probably too low for semiconductor manufacturers to recoup the cost of the new production lines needed to make them . |
| 24 | The bed was far too low for ease of nursing and so large that its cotton sheets did n't fit . |
| 25 | To show this , consider all the points to the left of the IS curve , like point A : at this point , with the given interest rate Oi 1 , the level of income is too low for equilibrium to be achieved in the real sector . |
| 26 | The majority of British coals have ash fusion temperatures too low for use on the Snowdon locomotives . |
| 27 | In other words , negative cell lines may lack some genes capable of transforming NIH/3T3 cells or contain a set of genes that could transfer 3T3 cells , but at an efficiency of focus induction too low for detection . |
| 28 | Auntie Lou said something that was too low for Carrie to hear and Mr Evans laughed . |
| 29 | This temperature may be too low for comfort in a regularly used living room , so try and find a cooler spot for a longer display . |
| 30 | Large tower systems that sit beneath the desk are also worth considering , but check that the floppy drive is n't too low for comfort . |