Example sentences of "too [adj] and [vb -s] too " in BNC.
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| 1 | Questioning everything a company does is usually too risky and confronts too many entrenched interests among managers and employees to be worth doing unless a firm is in dire trouble . |
| 2 | The law is too rigid and recognises too little of what goes on in the housing estates and back alleys of industrial towns . |
| 3 | He knows it chiefly as a source of seasonal traffic jams about which Marjorie sometimes complains ( the University day begins too late and finishes too early to inconvenience Vic himself ) and of distractingly pretty girls about whose safety he worries , seeing them walking to and fro between their halls of residence and the Students ' Union in the evenings . |
| 4 | Bush called for a rediscovery of " a " home truth " that the American people have never really forgotten : this government is too big and spends too much " . |
| 5 | Abandoning the " kinder " , " gentler " emphasis of his 1989 inauguration speech , Bush returned to the rhetoric of the Reagan era , stating the belief that " government is too big and costs too much " , and seeking to appropriate much of Buchanan 's anti-government , anti-Washington , pro-family , pro-defence and pro-laissez-faire vision of society . |