Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [be] too " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forest of Dean council say the ramps were too steep , it 'll cost more than £3,000 to build a better ramp across the Palmers garden and regulations insist the Palmers must make a contribution . |
| 2 | The story of the Scouts is too familiar to require further repetition , except in so far as some acknowledgement of the movement is worthwhile in order to complete this description of the range of voluntary youth provision in the period . |
| 3 | In Danzig it was still possible for a merchant to make a small fortune from the grain and timber trades , but it was not considered wise to invest the profits in agriculture — either the farms were too small and the returns non-existent , or the estates were too ramshackle and labour-intensive to warrant investment . |
| 4 | Having borrowed money to maintain their vast estates they found that the estates were too inefficient to generate the income to pay back the loans . |
| 5 | He 's too like , the signs are too many on him to be son to any other man . |
| 6 | Oh , well , I made a detour through the Wicklow Mountains — but the hedges were too high to see much , and I had a quick look at the site of the Battle of the Boyne . |
| 7 | He preached to the World Scout Jamboree and was blamed by the Daily Telegraph for reading his sermon to a multitude of boys and that the notes were too visible when they were blown about by the wind . |
| 8 | The European Commission opened talks with the heads of the national telephone monopolies yesterday about its plans to deregulate telephone service across the Community by 1998 : after the two-day discussions , the Commission will decide whether to formalise proposals calling for and end to national monopolies over all call transmission ; the usual row is expected between free traders like the UK , the Netherlands and Denmark and opponents in France , Belgium and Italy , Reuter reports from Brussels ; France Telecom and Belgacom said the plans were too ambitious , the Dutch and British Telecommunications Plc indicated support ahead of the talks . |
| 9 | But the Government today said the plans were too extravagant and the Council would have to cutback by £10 million . |
| 10 | ‘ It has been recognised that maybe the proposals are too extreme , particularly in respect of the infantry , ’ says one informed source . |
| 11 | ‘ The Russians are too clever for that . |
| 12 | The telephone ‘ conference call ’ for instance , enabled a widely separated group of individuals to share a telephone discussion , but the groups were too small to count as ‘ mass ’ . |
| 13 | the hours are too long , the hours are too long and the wages are really bad , th really bad |
| 14 | the hours are too long , the hours are too long and the wages are really bad , th really bad |
| 15 | So that 's , that 's er , the women 's work is is work that is , the hours are too long , and the wages are really bad ? |
| 16 | It was thicker than he would have liked and the sticks were too long . |
| 17 | Many Members also continued to think that the rules were too restrictive — about half of those questioned in an IBA survey gave this reaction . |
| 18 | Technical innovation had slipped ; markets had been eroded in various ways ; some of the products were too mature for growth . |
| 19 | She knew the speeches from the balcony scene , could act Romeo as well ; Mercutio , with his Queen Mab saga , did not attract her ; the syllables were too short , there was no chance of an echo . |
| 20 | This juxtaposition is impossible if the hairs are too close together , as on the scalp . |
| 21 | Furthermore , the packets were too costly for the average people to buy , conflicting with the second criterion . |
| 22 | The fact that the loom is horizontal means that the women have to do much of their weaving from the sides , which becomes impossible if the rugs are too wide ; consequently , nomadic rugs tend to be either small , or long and narrow . |
| 23 | WBC holder Hodkinson wants a £250,000 purse but Warren , who is McMillan 's promoter , said : ‘ I do n't want to see the big contests slip away because the fighters are too greedy . |
| 24 | Luckily , the kids were too young to realise the danger . |
| 25 | Obviously the unit they are hiding in can be affected , but the Fanatics are too crazed to realise what is going on . |
| 26 | The legs were too wide and were chopped off at least three inches above her boots . |
| 27 | In general we could surmise some possible causes : lack of clear guidance either in ‘ help routines ’ within the program or as printed instructions in the documentation accompanying the program — lack of preparation , ie , reading the documentation , which may suggest the demands are too high for most teachers ( teacher 's guides are rarely read ) — poor ‘ driving system ’ within the actual program , ie , the central organization of the system does not match teachers ' needs — poor ‘ driving system ’ that either confuses the teacher through its complexity or , at the other extreme , is not flexible enough for him to achieve the flow of his planned lesson — poor ‘ driving system ’ that interrupts the presentation of relevant displays with detailed control instructions on the screen . |
| 28 | The whiskers were too small to see with the naked eye and nobody could possibly make a testing machine on that scale . |
| 29 | The moorings are too close to town centre . |
| 30 | But he could n't see Bertha because the bushes were too thick , and he could n't smell her because the smell of the myrtle was too strong . |