Example sentences of "too [adj] [be] " in BNC.

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1 does you too that 's one plus two times
2 No that 's too that 's not English enough .
3 Too strong is the life of men for me .
4 They are nice , they 're not too strong are they ?
5 It 's too low is it , for you ?
6 It 's not too dry is it Sue ?
7 That was too dry was it ?
8 This demonstration shows how even very small amounts of extra rudder in a turn cause a bad wing drop , whereas using too little is a safer fault because it inhibits the stalling characteristics .
9 Every Scot knows at least part of the story of the massacre , but many are not aware of the background that led up to the atrocity and too little is known about the heinous wickedness of some of the characters involved .
10 His claim that insider dealing is common , and that too little is done to stamp it out , was echoed by many City investors .
11 Too little is done to implement existing preventive knowledge or to develop preventive strategies known to be effective .
12 A particularly notable omission was children of high ability , the more serious in view of the widespread evidence nationally that such children underachieve in primary schools , partly because too little is expected of them .
13 Too little is known about Burhaneddin Haydar Herevi to enable one to decide what is meant by the title , however , and there is no other evidence to indicate either that he held an official post or , if so , that it was anything other than an ad hominem appointment .
14 Elsewhere , the relationships are more difficult to define , usually because too little is known about the individual sites ; examples include the extensive industries of Brockley Hill and Mancetter-Hartshill , while Dorchester-on-Thames also lay on the fringes of the kiln area producing Oxford wares .
15 The 1974 discovery of the Water Newton hoard , a cache of 30 gold coins of the period AD 330–50 , taken alongside the important fourth-century school of mosaicists , clearly indicate continued wealth at the site , about which all too little is known .
16 For a few to have money in abundance and others too little is the root of all social ills : it is the differential which results in unrest , riot , war , discrimination , class systems , crime , snobbery : the belief that one man is of more intrinsic value than another for reasons other than his temperament , his moral qualities , and his likeability .
17 During the early 1950s too little was known about rocket propulsion and missile performance for finite decisions to be taken in favour of either aircraft or missiles .
18 If it was pointed out that in mixed-ability classes too little was now being expected of the very clever child , teachers tended to reply that such children could look after themselves , and required , or deserved , no special consideration .
19 Heath had heeded official opinion , which argued that now too much policy-making was bottled up in the super ministry and too little was reaching Cabinet .
20 In the first months of 1950 both the British service chiefs and many influential figures in Washington complained that too little was being done to combat the communist threat in the Cold War .
21 I , I did , and then of course as I say er , you know , with my husband , well I had lovely holidays before but when you 've got a companion it 's all too different is n't it ?
22 Many who would like to enter nursing and believe they are too old are put off by the knowledge that even if they do venture , they will find themselves alone in the company of a large group of teenagers .
23 The belief that if you are over twenty-five you are too old is commonly held .
24 Whether it is a Christian student surrounded by relativism on a university campus or a Christian family surrounded by the influence of the mass media , too few are awake to the danger .
25 If too many units are produced , stocks will lie idle or go to waste ; if too few are produced , the item will go out of stock , and it may be difficult to fit in further batches in the short-term .
26 But for Richard too this was a triumph : the full rehabilitation of his mother to all her rights as Duchess of Aquitaine .
27 It 's too exciting is n't it ?
28 The danger in being too rigid is that justice will not be done to the flexibility and complexity of human performance .
29 To be too direct was to be unfeminine .
30 And too embarrassed Is it my fault ?
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