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 | If the bottom is too weedy for this I continually re-bait and cast . |
| 4 | He thought is was too flat , too dated for nineteen seventy , or whatever year it was . |
| 5 | They are a little too garish for Western tastes , but possess a distinctive ethnic flavour , and the wool is good . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The talk quickly became too technical for Sabine to follow , and Marie-Christine laughed at her bemused expression . |
| 8 | The great man himself is now 95 and too frail for any involvement . |
| 9 | Of the remainder , another 25–35% will be too advanced for curative treatment and will turn out to be unresectable if surgery is attempted . |
| 10 | No fate is too cruel for voracious snails , here devouring Iris foetida |
| 11 | But Barry 's mother is too polite for that , whenever Crispin goes round he gets schneken and the photo album like anyone else . |
| 12 | Full marks though for the clarity of all the instruments , the relationship of the controls , pedals and wheel — although this is a little too offset for some — and the rattle-free interior . |
| 13 | His original intention was to do research in Political Geography , but Central Europe was at that time too political for such research to be practical . |
| 14 | This is not a plea for historical recorders to get their act together and check facts first-hand — I think the forces of establishment and vested interest are too strong for that to work , and anyway it would n't solve all the problems . |
| 15 | Not only had its hold been too strong for that among considerable sections of the population , but the conditions of the immediate post-war era were miserable enough for many to compare them unfavourably with the peacetime era under Nazism . |
| 16 | By the way , it 's strange my telling you all this , but I know my secret 's safe with you , and I know , too , that it ca n't have an evil influence on you — your mind 's too strong for that . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The attraction of nearly £2 million in prize-money and nine months of travelling throughout Europe is proving too strong for many , and the Tour receives dozens of telephone calls and letters from girls wanting to join the paid ranks . |
| 19 | It is now considered too strong for internal use and can cause vomiting . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Even the federal analogy is too strong for most groups . |
| 22 | It may be just a little too strong for some people . |
| 23 | Phillips and Drew emphasized that there was no finance director to look after investors ' money , and added that the return being offered was much too low for such a high-risk project . |
| 24 | To tell the truth , he was too low for that . |
| 25 | Fritz H Schröder 's editorial on screening for prostatic cancer makes the point that the specificity and positive predictive value are too low for any of the available screening tests to be recommended . |
| 26 | There were railway bridges close to the Beckenham boundaries , that at Beckenham itself being too low for double deck cars . |
| 27 | ( 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 ) . |
| 28 | The reliability of the individual subtests is regarded as ‘ too low for adequate prediction and diagnosis from individual profiles ’ ( Weener et al . |
| 29 | She said she knew Alex might die , but thought that he was too resilient for that to happen . |
| 30 | Never about bad cards , of course , he was much too professional for that , never about the fall of the dice in backgammon ; he had himself under control — just — when his bridge partner made a miscalculation and played unnecessarily into an opponent 's finesse . |