Example sentences of "[was/were] all [adv] [adj] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | The deal was all too similar to others that he knew unscrupulous businessmen had perpetrated in this country and others . |
2 | Mr Tweedie said that , at present , it was all too easy for users to be left unaware of the total assets employed in a business , and its overall funding . |
3 | It was all too easy for opponents of the move towards greater political party involvement in national leadership to label the activities of politicians as corrupt , self-seeking , individualistic and anti-social . |
4 | At a time when vast tracts were unsettled , it was all too easy for governments to be profligate . |
5 | The novels enjoyed a limited success , but because most novelists were concerned at the time to redefine the relation of the individual to society in terms of changing values , it was all too easy for readers to focus on the social dimension of Brooke-Rose 's fiction and to overlook those aspects which can in retrospect be seen to prefigure the problems and techniques of her later work . |
6 | Without such basic information we realized it was all too easy for myths and fantasies to develop about the demands of the investigative service . |
7 | In the truncated finale , for instance ( given a puckish rather than a trenchant slant by Kun ) , I was all too conscious of moments when the speed of articulation and lively nature of the acoustic conspired to widen the distance between soloist and woodwind , making for an uncomfortable out-of-phase sensation in their exchanges . |