Example sentences of "[v-ing] be too " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been watching you , and the price you 're paying is too high . |
| 2 | If restretching is too daunting , you could either use a frame with sufficient rebate to hide the discrepancy or have a frame made which fits the canvas . |
| 3 | While police forced open shops and houses , residents complained their compensation for moving was too low . |
| 4 | Gide was perceived as having been too closely allied to the psychological novel in the French tradition of the roman d'analyse . |
| 5 | I am hungry having been too upset for my morning egg because of a difficulty with the soldiers which Pa refused to do anything about , then heartlessly reproduced the very same egg for my lunch . |
| 6 | The style for information giving is too often confused with information seeking . |
| 7 | Attempts to organize a session of parliament — to sanction its own dissolution and call the new elections for April — failed , however , when the number of deputies attending was too small to produce a quorum . |
| 8 | No-one should ever think that what they were doing was too small . |
| 9 | BA president John Hitchin thought Books for Giving was too long and should list ‘ more guaranteed bestsellers and fewer dogs ’ . |
| 10 | It was answered by a Turkish ‘ kidney broker ’ , who said the £5,000 he was asking was too much . |
| 11 | The risks of trouble arising were too great ’ . |
| 12 | Consistent with its overall approach , the Government is avoiding being too prescriptive , preferring to place the obligation on the industry . |
| 13 | And if playing is too easy , it might take all the fun out of it . |
| 14 | In other words their comprehension is at fault , or put another way the text they are using is too difficult for them . |
| 15 | But on the river , when you 're getting a bite a chuck , especially on the lead and missing most of them , I 'll guarantee the hook size you 're using is too small to find a purchase in the fishes ' mouths . |
| 16 | And she had given a certain name to it , and I ca n't remember what the name was now , something like fiddling , I mean fiddling is too obvious , it was n't that , but it was something like that , an ordinary everyday term like that . |
| 17 | You think the post I 'm offering is too demanding ? ’ |
| 18 | We welcome the proposal to reduce the statutory time limit on all existing and future permissions which we believe is essential if minerals operations are to be brought up to and maintained at modern standards or reviewed to assess whether they should be extinguished because the environmental costs of working is too high . |
| 19 | The pain the City is now feeling is too easily brushed off as a short-term punch in the stomach from the economy . |
| 20 | But the crush of those fleeing was too much and the officers were swamped . |