In time, no doubt, the strain would have proved too great for him.

Pressures inside and outside the Society proved too great to resist.

This task would later prove too great for both men.

The challenge of desktop publishing has proved too great for many companies.

And the impulse to get up out of the seat finally proves too great.

But if I were in a separate hole, filled up above me with earth, the obstacles would prove too great.

It had been abandoned when the cost proved far too great.

The terrific pressure had proven too great for the flawed rock above.

As if the trip had proved too great a strain.

Then there could come a time when the resistance within me might prove too great.