Example sentences of "[is] [adv] too [det] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the harsh climate in which we live it is perhaps too much to hope that editors , no doubt feeling themselves lucky to employed at all , will rise up against their own management to resist this dictate . |
| 2 | It is not too much to say that we entered the conference in the law and atmosphere of the 17th century and we came out with a fair prospect of 20th century conditions . ' |
| 3 | John Paris , in his biography of Davy published in 1825 , wrote : ‘ I have been able to present to the world a complete history of those proceedings which have so happily led to discovery of which it is not too much to say that it is at once the pride of science , the triumph of humanity and the glory of the age in which we live . ’ |
| 4 | Indeed it is not too much to say that the Inklings were preoccupied with them . |
| 5 | Her life had been full of pain and perplexity ; it is not too much to say that her emotional needs had been fastened on a man whom she never properly understood , and that he in turn was baffled and then enraged by her insistent and neurotic demands upon him . |
| 6 | Indeed , it is not too much to say that this is probably the single thing that " everyone know about Athenian democracy . |
| 7 | It is not too much to say that the quoted argument has the strength of this : We say it is probable that the spoon is under the napkin ; the relation of " being under " is therefore a relation of probability . |
| 8 | It is not too much to say that the probabilistic analyses must revise this into a belief that many effects are not made to happen . |
| 9 | In Billie Holiday 's 1936 recording of ‘ These Foolish Things ’ it is not too much to say that the melody is recomposed . |
| 10 | It is not too much to say that this interpretation of what appears the plain meaning of section 4 of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act , 1974 , would make a farce out of the children 's hearing system . |
| 11 | If it is to be felt by the participants then it is not too much to suggest that it should be understood by the teacher . |
| 12 | Yet it is also too much to hope that an improved economy will miraculously turn this prime minister into a leader . |