intolerable

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• find: Some patients find the nausea so intolerable they say they would rather die than go on.
• make: The moral default of our elders has made life intolerable for everyone.

Modifies a noun

• burden: At Home Farm Kate is having trouble facing up to the intolerable burden of having to lose a child.
• strain: Greater student numbers can place an intolerable strain on current pastoral care models operated by courses.
• nuisance: The crying of Sunday newspapers had become an absolutely intolerable nuisance in the smaller streets of the boro.
• interference: Eventually, to stop intolerable interference in their internal affairs, the congregations had to sever all connection with the Church in Germany.
• suffering: In the process they cause intolerable suffering to many people.
• situation: Millions of people have been caught up in intolerable situations.

Modifying Another Word

• morally: I would be interested to see how you would answer this in a way which was not " morally intolerable " .
• almost: All close relationships are lit up by an almost intolerable, piercing clarity in which they are scarcely able to survive.
• absolutely: The crying of Sunday newspapers had become an absolutely intolerable nuisance in the smaller streets of the boro.
• increasingly: Britain's defenses are paying an increasingly intolerable price.
• quite: The following week made life quite intolerable for me; these people forced me at last into an Atheism that terrified me.
• so: Some patients find the nausea so intolerable they say they would rather die than go on.

Infinitive complement

• live: In addition to the adultery, the petitioner must find it intolerable to live with the respondent.

Used with adjective complement

• become: Stress becomes intolerable - need for change Art 57 Music, rhythm, color, harmony.
• seem: For every age consists of crises that seem intolerable to those who live through them.
• find: A: No-one should be forced into a situation that they find intolerable.
• make: Turner's life had been made intolerable through the treatment by the headteacher.

Preposition: in

• consequence: PFI is prohibitive in cost, flawed in concept and intolerable in consequences for the taxpayers, citizens and workers of this nation.