Example sentences of "[noun] in too [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Virgin will not pull it off if they add too much capacity in too many routes in a very short period of time , because filling capacity is becoming increasingly difficult . |
| 2 | Since the Government first introduced road humps in 1981 , traffic engineers in too many councils have shown naked hostility to the idea of traffic calming and have completely set their face against the idea of road humps . |
| 3 | This can , of course , create very undesirable consequences : social stability may be endangered by concentration of too much power and/ or wealth in too few hands ; the privacy of citizens may be abused under the excuse of maintaining law and order , or for commercial gains ; the state may take a " big brother " role ; the business community may acquire too much political power ; or , although very unlikely , IT experts may decide that they should take over the running of the country , since it is only they who can understand the unnecessary complexity of IT systems . |
| 4 | Mind you , there 's a danger in too much interbreeding and it 's no different with human beings . |
| 5 | Regrettably , too many inadequately trained , ignorant and uncaring managers in too many workplaces believe they can beat the cost of unsafe practices and systems and take a chance on the consequences . |
| 6 | They 're against change altogether , because they 've got fingers in too many pies . |
| 7 | He 's got too many fingers in too many pies ok one groups making , one groups making a million pound a day , where another groups loosing a million pound a day or loosing two million pound a day , if you 've got too many fingers in too many pies |
| 8 | He 's got too many fingers in too many pies ok one groups making , one groups making a million pound a day , where another groups loosing a million pound a day or loosing two million pound a day , if you 've got too many fingers in too many pies |
| 9 | Pride always restrained her from describing her mother 's attitudes in too much detail , and she tended rather to laugh them off , but nevertheless her friends had some shrewd notion of the situation . |
| 10 | Justifying the decision to boost funding for SDI , Bush said that " we must have protection from limited nuclear missile attack " adding that " there are too many people in too many countries [ who ] have access to nuclear arms " . |
| 11 | Certainly it would be wrong to associate anti-Bolshevik sentiment with religious persecution in too many cases . |
| 12 | Too much exclaiming and protesting would have aroused a degree of doubt as to his sincerity , but Herluin clearly felt that here was nothing worse than some confused stupidity among too many helpers in too much panic and haste , and what was lost would be found as soon as everyone calmed down and halted the hunt for a while to take thought . |
| 13 | Later in the same decade , when British filmmakers had lost their interest in international affairs , the same actor , George Cole , plays the inadequate gang-leader in Too Many Crooks ( 1959 ) , a film whose insights into the cold realities of contemporary marriage derives from the story of a kidnapped wife who plots revenge when her husband shows himself less than interested in paying over her ransom . |