Example sentences of "too [adj] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I merely wished to caution against being too hasty in this matter . ’ |
| 2 | Blast is still going strong though , perhaps because its sound is too loud for wet fashion victims to handle . |
| 3 | The aim is to be aware of the contrast between a voice volume that is too loud in ordinary circumstances and the voice volume that is suitable for ordinary conversation but using feeling instead of ( or as well as ) hearing to monitor the loudness . |
| 4 | Its bottom octave is too weak for ordinary use , though it is attractive when extremely lightly accompanied . |
| 5 | But they will just as surely have died because they were too weak in political muscle to be able to fight back . |
| 6 | Th they they demanded a higher wage er for erm just because Er m a man was n't too dear if it was a good er harvesting day , a man was n't too dear at any price . |
| 7 | They are a little too garish for Western tastes , but possess a distinctive ethnic flavour , and the wool is good . |
| 8 | Now such a meal , as any dietician will tell you , is far too rich in nitrogenous substances , since fish has just as much assimilable albumen as meat , and contains a great deal more phosphorus … " |
| 9 | The great man himself is now 95 and too frail for any involvement . |
| 10 | Of the remainder , another 25–35% will be too advanced for curative treatment and will turn out to be unresectable if surgery is attempted . |
| 11 | Bavaria is facing the first major sell-off of an historic private collection since the war , and they have consulted Britain on how to respond , as England is all too used to such dispersals ( Yet another took place last month with the sale of Pitchford Hall ) . |
| 12 | No fate is too cruel for voracious snails , here devouring Iris foetida |
| 13 | He was , along with ( Sir ) Charles Arden-Clarke and Edward ( later Baron ) Twining [ qq.v. ] , one of the ‘ young guard ’ of governors , carefully picked by the Colonial Office to replace an older generation like Arthur Richards ( first Baron Milverton ) and Sir Philip Mitchell [ qq.v. ] who , in the eyes of such architects of decolonization as ( Sir ) Andrew Cohen [ q.v. ] and his master , Arthur Creech Jones [ q.v. ] , were too rooted in pre-war attitudes to adapt enthusiastically to the new spirit of social engineering and transfer of power . |
| 14 | Such variables are too specific to industrial relations to be included in the flashpoints model of public disorder . |
| 15 | Captain Aranyos was not too specific on that point . ’ |
| 16 | Shareholders may not be too heartened by such promises . |
| 17 | His original intention was to do research in Political Geography , but Central Europe was at that time too political for such research to be practical . |
| 18 | Freshly made tea , coffee ( not too many , not too strong with skimmed milk and no sugar ) |
| 19 | He says I come on too strong with these men , not sexually because believe me , I do n't . |
| 20 | Even without skipper Denis McBride , Scott Kirkpatrick and Stuart Duncan in the pack , and scrum half Stevie Cowan and centre Bill Harbinson , Malone proved much too strong for ineffective North in a repeat of last year 's final . |
| 21 | It is now considered too strong for internal use and can cause vomiting . |
| 22 | Talented Hughes and ex-North Wales county team member Preston from Prestatyn were too strong for professional coach Arwyn Pierce of Ruthin and his young partner Danielle Morris Jones of Rhyl , running out straight set winners at a cost of six games . |
| 23 | Even the federal analogy is too strong for most groups . |
| 24 | It may be just a little too strong for some people . |
| 25 | There were railway bridges close to the Beckenham boundaries , that at Beckenham itself being too low for double deck cars . |
| 26 | ( 3 ) Rewrite the extract on p. 78 beginning " Moore states … " , so that its register is consistent ( and neither too high nor too low for academic writing ) . |
| 27 | The reliability of the individual subtests is regarded as ‘ too low for adequate prediction and diagnosis from individual profiles ’ ( Weener et al . |
| 28 | It is just possible that a diet too low in certain foods will produce iron and calcium deficiency . |
| 29 | My problem is one of gearing — basically it is too low in all gears . |
| 30 | If any one should think that the women 's earnings are stated too low in these accounts , he will be convinced that they are not , on considering that these women commonly begin the world with an infant , and are mere nurses for ten or twelve years after marriage , being always either with child , or having a child at the breast ; consequently incapable of doing much other work beside the necessary businesses of their families , such as baking , washing , and the like . |