Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [be] [adv] too " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pre-war underwear was available from high class shops but was far too expensive for most women . |
| 2 | Now the interior was all of artificially roughened timber , raw beams and panelling with a sawdust-covered floor , and the lights were piss-coloured imitation gas lamps that were almost too dim to see by . |
| 3 | A bowl , she decided , exploring with fingers that were almost too frozen to feel anything , with something inside it that felt like a tiny lump of candlewax — and a wick . |
| 4 | A PC is no substitute for artistic ability , but with the aid of a suitable package you can achieve effects that are neither too time-consuming , costly or just plain impossible by hand . |
| 5 | That had to be done , first , to reduce costs to a level that highway authorities could afford and , secondly , to deal with circumstances that were perhaps too tightly restricted . |
| 6 | erm no what happened was that he gave me some bones that were far too big for the dogs . |
| 7 | About 50–60% of all cases of prostate cancer in the European Community present with obvious metastases or are locally too advanced for potentially curative management . |
| 8 | The waste of public money for war produced sentiments that are all too familiar today . |
| 9 | These recipes are a taste of some of the things that are simply too good to forget . |
| 10 | It would involve talking about things that were far too personal . |
| 11 | Despite visits to dozens of toy shops , all they could find were tricycles that were either too large or too small for their requirements . |
| 12 | They take groups of school children in to look at experiments and techniques that are far too complicated perhaps , expensive perhaps , or even dangerous , to run in a school — like X-ray crystallography and infra-red spectrometry . |
| 13 | Its first movement comes across in terms that are much too broad for my liking , and in places , such as after the change to five flats in the development ( 6′14″ ) , proceedings almost threaten to come to a halt so that the whole structure does not cohere . |
| 14 | The beech woods , especially , have little undergrowth , in which case they do not hold large bird populations and are often too young to support hole-nesting species such as woodpeckers . |
| 15 | The company says this is a major advantage over many existing systems that are either too slow — or even incapable — of providing reliable character recognition . |
| 16 | Simulation of geographical systems is not necessarily motivated by considerations of cost or avoidance of hazard , but more by the desire to experiment on systems that are either too slow-acting relative to the human life-span or which present ethical problems to the would-be experimenter . |
| 17 | There you have it ; myself , the captive knitter with short arms , wearing a garment with sleeves that are probably too long even for Ms Average . |
| 18 | Some with rosy cheeks in brand new coats and sandals , some thin and jaundiced , wearing clothes that were either too small or too large . |
| 19 | The big stocky figure of Benny Hogan in her strong shoes and tightly buttoned sensible coat , the waif-like Eve in the clothes that were always too long and streelish on her . |
| 20 | He was dressed in clothes that were much too large for him , and in his hand he held a small bottle . |
| 21 | Some of Mao 's pronouncements struck me as being much too simplistic and others as being much too complex . ’ |
| 22 | The bus stops in Southampton are ranged along the pavements with the various companies using those facilities that is perhaps too strong a word-which leads to congestion . |
| 23 | She had changed into a striped shirt and a pair of faded jeans that were slightly too large for her . |
| 24 | Gareth leapt to the telephone in hopes that were all too soon dashed . |