Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [noun pl] [be] too " in BNC.
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| 1 | The felt tips are too far away . |
| 2 | If you think it ca n't happen to you , think again — the horror stories are too numerous to discount . |
| 3 | But whereas the mare basalts are too dense to represent the lunar mantle , the highland rocks are not dense enough . |
| 4 | Basically the interest rates being levied by the building societies are too high . |
| 5 | The puff sleeves were too tight under the armpits , pinched your flesh . |
| 6 | The main staircase was just passable , but the upstairs rooms were too dangerous to enter , Rory said . |
| 7 | The great linden tree , the traditional place for a village parliament , was lopsided even now from missing branches , and the nearest farmhouse was patched with un-matching brickwork and some of the window frames were too square to be old . |
| 8 | But the climate cycles are too strong to be explained as the direct effect of the astronomical changes alone . |
| 9 | The first lecture was on Comus ( subsequent talks on Milton had to move to the large lecture-room at the Taylorian Institute , the Divinity Schools being too small ) . |
| 10 | The woodwind parts are too high for it to double effectively . ) |
| 11 | We always said that the Good Housekeeping Institute was unique , and the job requirements are too ! |
| 12 | Some of the modem homes are too clinical , impersonal and routinized for comfort . |
| 13 | The bridge saddles were too high and the truss rod needed a full half-turn to make the neck straight and playable . |
| 14 | I 'm , I think , I think I 've got a different criticism which is that much of it is still too much like a newspaper erm that it 's , as I say , that the modular structure of the news pages is too relentlessly like , almost like , the Times of eighteen twelve , I mean too relentlessly little blocks that sort of sit there and although there 's Helvetica bold in the headlines , it 's , somehow the relationship and flow of stories in many ways does n't seem to have changed , it 's the presentation |
| 15 | Also , the intonation screws are too long ; on the bottom E , the screw is so long that it literally digs into the string . |
| 16 | He also suffered severe cramps in his right foot because the brake pedals were too sharp . |
| 17 | And that 's hampering the whole development process because it 's high , high wages , high wages creates migration and the whole resource allocation reflects in the economies er are disrupted and because people are moving out of agriculture because they ca n't make any money from agriculture they think they can make some money in industry like agriculture itself is being starved of capital and er so it hampers the development process , I mean it 's a complicated business but er there may well be some , some sort of strands of sense that we can draw out of this , one of which may be well if the government sectors are too large in these countries essentially it does n't matter who owns these companies whether it 's , they were privately owned or government , erm if they are inefficient they are inefficient |
| 18 | In a number of instances , the program lines are too long for the printed page . |
| 19 | In 1979 , he said , the incoming government had felt the unemployment figures were too high . |
| 20 | In the words of others he springs into action as a political firebrand , marching into the coal-owners ' offices and demanding justice for their exploited work-force , only to be told that the coal seams were too meagre and the profit margin too small to provide improvements in safety standards . |
| 21 | The evolutionist schemes are too abstract and simple to comprehend the diverse political systems which have emerged within the largely separate political histories of different regions of the world ; and in spite of all the qualifications that have been introduced they are too closely bound up with the idea of progress — if not unilinear then at least converging upon the same end — to entertain the possibility that political systems might be repeated , mutatis mutandis , in the course of history : that new kinds of autocracy or new forms of empire might succeed democratic regimes . |
| 22 | SPECIAL school wants to be treated as a special case because the summer holidays are too long for children with profound difficulties . |
| 23 | Although we had three rooms for the sessions , conditions were very cramped and there were last minute hitches with pupils discovering their recorders would n't work or the plug points were too far from the place allocated for the interviews . |
| 24 | Someone down the car said it was a disgrace and the school holidays were too long and someone else said , pity the poor teachers . |
| 25 | The arm-chair socialists were too engrossed in scoring advantage points over each other and so paid no attention to the bell-ringer . |
| 26 | The theatrical smoke is fake … but the fire dangers are too real . |