Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] too [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Third placed Hawarden Park should be too powerful at home for bottom of the table Chirk . |
| 2 | But this I may say , that it seems unworthy of you that you should be too angry over this affair . ’ |
| 3 | It 's all visually worrying , but I do n't think we should be too concerned about it yet . ’ |
| 4 | Bathroom and toilet door locks should be too high for a child to reach so there 's no danger of shutting themselves in . |
| 5 | At the same time , I feel , no one should be too over-awed by Famlio 's own belief that they 're all-powerful . |
| 6 | No one should be too surprised at these clashes . |
| 7 | Must be too expensive for the locals , he mused . |
| 8 | Satan wo n't touch the milk — it must be too cold for him too . |
| 9 | ‘ Yes , but that might be too late for Danny , ’ I answered . |
| 10 | One , one point that was made to me is , is it might be , it might be too late for this , but it might be helpful for some staff from residential establishments to actually get to understand what official visits are as well . |
| 11 | With the trickling away of trade union support in this country , it might be too late for such a dramatic change of direction . |
| 12 | Georgia was looking at the bracelet the same way she used to look at the hill when she was five , she was in awe of it , it might be too strong for her . |
| 13 | After finding no takers for the painting at £4 million , Lady Cook consigned the painting to Christie 's for sale in April 1989 acting against the advice of her advisor Stephen Somerville , who cautioned that the powerful subject might be too strong for the average clientele ( ‘ Not many people would want an expensive picture of a man with a noose around his neck ’ , said one prominent member of the Old Master community , ‘ unless , of course , they 're into bondage ’ ) . |
| 14 | Of course I did n't mean that the end of the book was very like your own experience , but I was afraid it might be too close for your comfort . |
| 15 | You either stamp Lucas up his right buttock or you go over the double white lines , or you brake and somebody behind might be too close behind you . |
| 16 | ‘ I fear ’ , said How to Ramsey , ‘ that you might be too retiring for the job . ’ |
| 17 | Er well y I pick one that might be too long for you so pick Roxy Roxy which I love . |
| 18 | Hatch might have put his daughter 's interests first , and decided that Stone was better off out of things , and two vengeance trails might be too complex for CI5 to handle thoroughly . |
| 19 | The shock might be too great for him . ’ |
| 20 | This view might be too romantic for some who prefer to see sport as a destructive force , leaving black kids , their hopes shattered , with no qualifications , few prospects and little career orientation . |
| 21 | Originally I thought the ground might be too soft for her , making it a real test of stamina , and we know that she only just gets the trip . |
| 22 | The latter , again , might be too crude to be included ; even at Chedworth the workmanship is inferior to that of the elaborate mosaic of room 5 , ( pi . |
| 23 | Whereas in the examples taken from scenes one and three , Anderson fulfils the Interest Principle by merely 'saying what is unpredictable and hence interesting " ( Leech 1983 : 146 ) , in later scenes he uses irony to implicate propositions which might be too face-threatening to be made directly or ironic understatement to be deliberately impolite . |
| 24 | For example , a woman in an abusive relationship might be too frightened of her partner to intervene , and may have been threatened to prevent her telling the police or the court what happened . |
| 25 | because anywhere that is , it 'll be too hot in places so people go to cooler places and cool places will be getting covered in water . |
| 26 | A bonfire on the beach tonight when it 'll be too dark for my eye to catch a few stray words of love . |
| 27 | They might get one of us , or two , but it 'll be too late for the boy . ’ |
| 28 | Fresh water from the recently flooded east coast of Australia is heading towards Lake Eyre , but this will take months to arrive and it 'll be too late for many of the thirty thousand chicks in the colony . |
| 29 | It 'll be too late by the time I make them understand . |
| 30 | She 'll be too tired after her aerobics |