Example sentences of "[prep] the too [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Against a background of thinking that a series should : a ) find a balance between the too general and the too specific ( in their Arnold series he would say that MacLoughlin was about right , Tarone too specific ) , and b ) be for the most part single-author monographs and only rarely , if ever , be edited collections of papers ( while recognizing that CUP has produced the occasionally successful collection ) , he suggested the following topics/authors : — universal grammar/Kevin Gregg , Japan ? — input and interaction in SLA/Jackie Schachter/Teresa Pica , Pennsylvania ? ( could be two separate volumes ) — cognitive processing and SLA/ ? — ‘ instructed ’ SLA/Patsy Lightbown ? — social factors and situations in SLA/Roger Andersen , UCLA ? — age and neurolinguistic factors/Mike Long ? ( who has apparently said he would not want to publish in his own series ) |
| 2 | And I think some would be the less about the too much work perhaps being done by Synod and not enough by districts . |
| 3 | This lambast , which occurs at the beginning of the novel , is not just another Jacobsonian account of the too easy reverence paid to writers of ‘ magic realism ’ . |
| 4 | For a moment Charity 's mind grappled with the too swift change of topic , but then the light went on . |
| 5 | … they meant well — they felt kindly towards him , and acknowledged his provocations ; but they fell into the too common error of supposing that the finer feelings , which induce a man to prefer death to dishonour , are only to be recognised among the higher classes ; and that , because circumstances may have placed a man before the mast , he will undergo punishment , however severe , however degrading … in preference to death . |
| 6 | This fed the general enthusiasm for liberating people from the too close supervision of the state , and in turn ushered in the rise of Hayek 's system of philosophy in which the aim is to reduce government provision to the barest minimum , for civil security and basic social security only . |
| 7 | Kate removed herself from the too close proximity . |
| 8 | Her second novel The Victim of Prejudice was published in 1799 and delineates ‘ the mischiefs that have ensued from the too great stress laid on the reputation for chastity in women ’ . |
| 9 | She had seen the children in other families break away entirely from the too zealous claims of an old nurse and when the time came , as it surely must , she wished to protect herself from the pain which rejection could cause . |
| 10 | ‘ For to obviate the inconveniencies that might result from the too frequent communication with the out pupils the Professor will demonstrate to the latter only what might be useful to them as Surgeons and Physicians to the human body , such as the most important demonstrations of comparative anatomy as likewise experiences [ experiments ] on several animals , which could not be attempted on Man without imminent danger , and lastly , a comparison between epidemical and epizootic diseases — therefore the out pupils ought to be considered by the Society [ College ] as a separate Class : the consideration of which ought not to have any influence as to the situation of the establishments . |
| 11 | The Law Society takes virtually no interest in these matters , or in the too frequent instances of gross negligence or dilatoriness by solicitors in dealing with their clients ' affairs . |
| 12 | They partly justified this by an eye upon the too rapid growth of population in some countries . |
| 13 | She might have agreed with my friend Roger Hinks — who , after his unmerited disgrace over the too energetic cleaning of the Elgin Marbles , left the British Museum to work for years for the British Council — that the compensation for having acquaintances is that we can make game of them with our friends . |
| 14 | In Simon and Gagnon 's further analysis of the ‘ anomie of affluence ’ , they construct a typology of possible responses to the too easy achievement of cultural goals . |
| 15 | Mutual benefits and shared learning are assumed to emanate from partnerships , predicated perhaps on the too simple notion that ‘ two plus two can make five ’ . |
| 16 | Brazauskas adopted a more cautious line regarding the too rapid dismantling of state industries , although he still emphasised that privatisation needed to be speeded up . |
| 17 | She cringed at the too cheerful sound of her voice . |