Example sentences of "be too [adj] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But er the only problem here is we 're too low down and there 's too much sh shimmer in the atmosphere , difficult to get anything really clear . |
| 2 | No none of you do now but when he first suggested it everyone was up in arms and he poor old soul I remembered he said , I 've had enough change I I believe in this I I 've I 've tried I 'm too old now and out he walked . |
| 3 | On the Niskanen assumptions , then , bureaus will receive less than they need , they will be too small rather than too large , and services will be under rather than over supplied ( Breton and Wintrobe , 1982 ) . |
| 4 | Or — and something came apart in his stomach and turned a revolution and plummeted downwards — were they all politely and patiently waiting with well-controlled longing because it would not be too long now before they could get home and carry on with the lives they preferred without him ? |
| 5 | For example an intelligence test may be too easy so that all testees have almost perfect scores , or too difficult in that all testees have very low scores , in both cases discrimination will be poor . |
| 6 | Defeat would n't be too clever either when Newcastle hit the dreaded road again at Port Vale this Saturday . |
| 7 | Do n't wan na be too late though cos . |
| 8 | But I mean once this strike is over , unless we come to proper agreement erm they know then that then it will be too late then cos there 's somebody saying then they came for the Jews first was it ? |
| 9 | The time may not , therefore , be too far away when , as McKinsey put it in their 1989 report , the scenario of ‘ potential unlocked ’ becomes a reality for AEA . |
| 10 | Panic will not be too far away if having collected all your information you have only a little time to write the speech . |
| 11 | That surely has been testified to today when the very convenor of the panel on doctrine admits that he does n't want the statements to be too clear so that they can be understood and used by people of radically different persuasions . |
| 12 | But she soon realised that they had come down to the manor only as a duty ( perish the word ! ) and courtesy to her , and regarded the house as a white elephant , being too far away and too cold for weekend breaks . |
| 13 | The drought of the previous three years has dissolved into into a huge downpour and now there 's more of a worry about being too much rather than not enough water . |
| 14 | Vagueness was resorted to by the judge in Jenkins v Reid in order to explain why a reformulation of a clause was unacceptable and in Gledhow Autoparts Ltd v Delaney [ 1965 ] 1 WLR 1366 Dankwerts LJ criticised the phrase " districts in which the traveller had operated " as being too vague especially as instructions given as to where he should work were purely oral . |
| 15 | A story of marginal interest may make it simply because it was quite easy to sub , whereas another similar story is spiked because the lines were too close together and the margins were very narrow . |
| 16 | The trees were too close together and the snow-covered gorse seemed to have a life of its own , blocking our passage with its thick stems . |
| 17 | While little direct evidence is available on the fate of the mountain populations during this period , there is little doubt they were too weak numerically and organizationally to put up any effective resistance to either power . |
| 18 | It is an indication that your weight is too far forward and to avoid it the feet should be positioned further back and more weight should be placed on the back foot . |
| 19 | They say the nearest alternative school is too far away and has a poor reputation . |
| 20 | Imagine a fine wire which is too far away and too thin to see by any ordinary means . |
| 21 | ‘ I know it 's too late now and that it — it does n't make any difference , ’ she said raggedly , ‘ but when I saw you again I knew that I loved you , too . |
| 22 | Well ah , we can mention it at the meeting , but I mean it 's too late really and er anyhow I should n't think anyone will go . |
| 23 | His insistence that our sun should be preeminent also predisposed him toward the belief that previously invisible stars , now revealed by Galileo 's telescope , had been too small rather than too distant to be seen . |
| 24 | The modem included in US models is n't approved by the British telecoms authorities — apparently its components are too close together and do n't meet the required specification — so Tadpole is recommending another for use in its place . |
| 25 | ‘ It was too easy really because we were professionals playing a team who were part-timers , putting in an hour 's hard training a week . |
| 26 | The plane was too far away and going in the wrong direction . |
| 27 | Abortion and divorce were two other issues of grave concern to Irish feminists but the climate was too hot politically and our numbers too small to effect change in those areas at that time . |
| 28 | He was too old now and the whole thing was altogether too complicated . |