Example sentences of "[adj] was too " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was too good a thing to be distracted from by pique . |
| 2 | This was too wide a loophole for the tax planners : no wonder inheritance tax is called a voluntary tax . |
| 3 | This was too much for Evelyn . |
| 4 | This was too much for the professor and Doisneau was ordered by a French court to destroy the original negative . |
| 5 | The cost of all this was too large for a war-weary , bankrupt Britain . |
| 6 | The vicious force which was now her essence and to which she gave the name of hatred ( only this was too narrow and too petty a name to describe it ) was directed upon Jack : Jack on whom daily , as he looked at her sometimes so anxiously , so humbly , she smiled the smile of reassurance and of calm . |
| 7 | This was too good an opportunity to miss because Alan had fished Hope for many years and knew every inch , intimately . |
| 8 | It is now clear that this was too simplistic a view . |
| 9 | Scott immediately sent a reply to all Members , along with copies of a paper he had already produced entitled The Gothic Renaissance , but with the parliamentary session closing on the following Saturday this was too late to have any effect . |
| 10 | But this was too much for me . |
| 11 | The local RCM committees followed up in the wake of evacuation , but this was too late for orthodox children arriving at their billets on the evening of Friday , 1 September . |
| 12 | At some point Kāli and I had stopped climbing and branched off to the left : but this was too narrow , an animal track . |
| 13 | Miss Thorne did n't think this was too good an idea but time was precious , so she agreed . |
| 14 | This was too much . |
| 15 | I just felt this was too good to last and I was right . |
| 16 | It broke my fall but the strain of this was too much ; it ripped out of the wall and landed on top of me at the foot of the stairs . |
| 17 | This was too much for Mrs Frizzell . |
| 18 | But this was too soon in my own development for me to be able to grasp the opportunity and eventually the shop closed down and Mr Farrer moved on . |
| 19 | This was too much of a threat to the rest of the work of the organization which is rooted in competition and activities . |
| 20 | This was too good an option to miss and in April 1989 the building was ordered . |
| 21 | But this was too much ; he picked up the phone and left his resignation on the answering machine at Caxton House . |
| 22 | As the BR main line to Birmingham is near Kidderminster Town Station , this was too stopped for some three hours , causing further major disruption . |
| 23 | This was too much for young Edouard . |
| 24 | This was too much for his opponents who now clearly saw that de Gaulle was opposed to the ‘ Community approach ’ in all areas , including economics . |
| 25 | However , this was too much for Attlee and Cripps : they flatly declared , ‘ Unless agreed conclusions were reached there was no point in negotiating . ’ |
| 26 | When Ian Smith proclaimed UDI in November 1965 this was too much . |
| 27 | Perhaps this was too sinister for the judges ' tastes ? |
| 28 | This was too much for Mrs Joe . |
| 29 | They will argue that such job creation as may have taken place is temporary and artificial , that the cost of achieving even this was too high and that it would have been cheaper and industrially more advantageous if people from development areas had been forced or encouraged to move to the prosperous areas . |
| 30 | The Lewis Carroll logic of this was too much for her ; she ran up a white flag , acknowledging defeat . |