Example sentences of "[verb] [that] [pron] [was/were] too " in BNC.
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| 1 | Critics charged that he was too busy thinking about France to concern himself with the problems of the French people . |
| 2 | After his death miracles were attributed to him and he was made a saint ; there were many who maintained that he was too ugly to be anything else . |
| 3 | However , she found that there was too much competition for the small number of places available on training courses . |
| 4 | er and of course I 've known Walter for years but I do n't know his wife , I 've never met his wife and of course not being able to get out into the street now , I should get out for about two years after I lost my husband and then I got this er awful pain nobody knows unless they have it er this arthritis in my knees , you see , and erm and then I found that it was too much for me to er otherwise I used to walk up to the post box road and I used to count the steps , three hundred and something steps there and three hundred and something back , you see , and to the front door , you see , but I , I ca n't do it now but I have with help and I went out last year with er Mrs and er twice we went to Dulwich which I enjoyed and so did she and the last time we went to and er we had our lunch and we went to see my cousins at West Suffolk and and , and then came home again , you see , and that 's the only time I went out last year and usually I used to go to for a day and I am hoping that if I , I am hoping , well you can only hope , that I might perhaps go so out one Sunday , once , just once in the , you see , because er , th that 's when when you 're old you 've got to keep , you 've got to hope for something |
| 5 | It was considered that there was too great a danger that the material would , once created , reach and affect a wider audience . |
| 6 | The survey also showed 71 per cent of the 3,000 questioned disagreed that there were too many detective programmes on TV , and 79 per cent said that 7.45pm on a Sunday was a good time to screen A Touch of Frost . |
| 7 | But when she looked again , she realized that they were too far away from each other for that to have been possible . |
| 8 | As the struggle progressed he came to see the inadequacies of the term and realized that it was too constricted in its meaning and gave rise to confusion and misunderstanding . |
| 9 | Yet others had correctly calculated that they were too old or their employment patterns too discontinuous to be eligible for pensions . |
| 10 | Most of these girls were not fiancées but daughters , come to join their parents ; the internal examinations were used to claim that they were too old to come as dependants . |
| 11 | And he revealed that he was too busy to tune into his son-in-law fighting for political life on Wednesday night 's TV news . |
| 12 | The ground was so contaminated that it was too dangerous even to try to remove the soil . |
| 13 | Realising that she was too slight to lift him , Sarah was desperate . |
| 14 | When the Red Deer Commission ( RDC ) was set up in 1959 , it argued that there were too many red deer in Scotland . |
| 15 | Far from arguing that the Bill did nothing , he argued that it was too draconian . |
| 16 | One school of thought argued that he was too good to be true and his information was deliberately fed to the West by a faction within the Kremlin who opposed Khrushchev 's plan to send missiles to Cuba . |
| 17 | Both believed that it was too locally various and too unsystematically administered at the local level . |
| 18 | But he added that it was too early to try to determine ‘ the exact nature of the wiretaps and the identity of those responsible . ’ |
| 19 | He had played a successful hand under Æthelred , and maintained his position in the fighting of 1015 – 16 , but Cnut , perhaps with the encouragement of his consort Ælfgifu of Northampton , who retained some sort of recognised position even after his marriage to Emma of Normandy , and whose father Eadric had overthrown , clearly decided that he was too powerful and dangerous to be tolerated further . |
| 20 | Having decided that she was too old for nougat , Nancy stood for a moment admiring her pool flanked by statues painstakingly collected by her husband , two Henry Moores , a Giacometti and an Elizabeth Frink , all concreted to the ground and wired with electrical devices to a central burglar alarm in the Mondano police station . |
| 21 | He had been handcuffed and was crying with the pain , shouting that they were too tight . |
| 22 | She hoped to tell Sarah about the caelidhe on Monday , but a message came that she was too ill for work . |
| 23 | But as she sat beside Ven Gajdusek while the car rolled silently downhill and into Mariánské Láznë , and she recovered her normally even temper , she could n't have said that she was too put out by the experience . |
| 24 | I imagine it might be said that it was too insistent on formal academic instruction , that it took things like examinations very seriously and prided itself on its academic record ; yet in fact the education it gave was surprisingly wide and varied … |
| 25 | He had now firmly ascertained that he was too important to kill . |
| 26 | I would have thought that there was too much interest : an interest in making money ; an interest in making a sensation ; and , very often , a deep interest in the subject and his or her work . |
| 27 | But she could see that it was too late . |
| 28 | But now I had come face to face with her four days after she stood before the House of Commons and declared that there were too many hospital beds in London , and that as a result , St Bartholomew 's Hospital , along with numerous others great and small , would have to close , merge or become emasculated . |
| 29 | Some claimed that there was too much detail , and this was being worked on . |
| 30 | Twenty-seven were told that they were too early and to re-apply after the advertisement appeared . |