Example sentences of "the [noun] too [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Loreto did try and come back into the game , but they relied on the breakaway too much with Barnwell and O'Neill always on their own , and lacking the support necessary to cause problems for Portadown . |
| 2 | F has joined the layline too early and as well as getting dirty wind as he approaches the mark , he will have no option but to sail on as if there is a favourable shift . |
| 3 | She did n't mind the carping too much . |
| 4 | The use of real stone would have made the shell too heavy to move , and so carved and painted wood to represent the creamy white of Lutyens 's favourite Portland stone was used . |
| 5 | The triable-either way offences were classified as ‘ Summary Trial Not Available ’ — that is , the magistrate thought the case too serious to be dealt with in the lower courts — or ‘ Defendant Elects Jury Trial . ’ |
| 6 | Neither of the girls was impressed by Venice , finding the views too familiar , the hype too strident . |
| 7 | The fact that the burns had come about in an unforeseeable way did not render the damage too remote . |
| 8 | It does n't distress the birds too much , some are caught 5 times in a week . |
| 9 | [ London Evening Post , 21–3 February 1754 , p. 3b ; anon. , The Danger and Immodesty of the Present Too General Custom of Unnecessarily Employing Men-Midwives , 1772 ; J. H. Aveling , English Midwives : their History and Prospects , 1872 ; H. Carrier , Origines de la Maternité de Paris , 1888 ; P. J. Klukoff , ‘ Smollett 's Defence of Dr. Smellie in The Critical Review ’ , Medical History , vol. xiv , 1970 ; Jean Donnison , Midwives and Medical Men , 1977 . ] |
| 10 | But two ill-fated sojourns to Britain , where he found the language , the climate and the cuisine too harsh for his exotic tastes , left him vowing never to return . |
| 11 | Both Slade J. and Devlin J. , respectively , feel that this would be setting the hurdle too low , and certainly Devlin J. in the Barnsley case wants the court ex post to be the yardstick by which to determine whether bias was likely to arise . |
| 12 | Another young wife widowed , probably sitting in the kitchen too stunned to move . |
| 13 | COOK 'S NOTE : Do not serve the dip too cold otherwise the flavours will be lost . |
| 14 | Obviously avoiding opening the jaw too wide helps , but some people who repeatedly get the problem may need surgery on the joints . |
| 15 | But malaria was only regionally important and the drug too expensive to give in sufficient dosage ( McKeown and Brown 1955 , Hobhouse 1985 ) . |
| 16 | Is the Fiction too slight a foundation to build on for some understanding of these intermediate years ? |
| 17 | She worked throughout this period , but it was here , she says , that she knew she had disassociated herself from the University too much . |
| 18 | Breeders often release the owls too old , without giving them time to establish themselves in the release area . |
| 19 | An innovation has been to introduce four kings , representing the four corners of the earth , who come to woo Epine and win the kingdom she has seized , are entranced by Rose but rejected by her because the North is uncouth , the East too vain , the West too cynical and the South too violent . |
| 20 | On the motorway there 's no tyre roar and very little wind noise and , provided the revs are n't allowed to stray far beyond the 5000rpm mark , engine noise does n't penetrate the cabin too much . |
| 21 | The text written with a generally light touch ( surely some unintentional humour : ‘ Some people consider Rego a feminist because her main characters are always women and they are usually up to mischief ’ ) but the artist 's biographies are fairly useless and the glossary too short to bother with . |
| 22 | But the union was too weak and the employers too powerful for much to be achieved . |
| 23 | Is the part too passive ? |
| 24 | I suppose if one were to wonder about schizophrenia or playing the part too much , it 's like an actor who does a film and the film is very successful and he plays Gatsby in the film , and then they never stop wearing 30 's tennis whites . |
| 25 | He had seen the signals too late . |
| 26 | Count Walewski , the French Foreign Minister , read the advertisement in the Moniteur and told Lord Cowley , the British Ambassador , that not only were the premiums too low , but that the time should be extended for French competitors . |
| 27 | But fourteen of 'em were saying , No , me me me , and it er spread the vote too thin . |
| 28 | Ultimately , therefore , even if the big publishers had properly understood how software would be used in classrooms , they might well have found the size of the industry too small to be worth their attention and resources . |
| 29 | If it 's a pretty , fleshy nude , or a charming bouquet of roses , or a view of a canal , if it serves as effective decoration without taxing the mind too much , then its success at auction is assured , providing the consignor is n't too greedy . |
| 30 | This man ordered an all-chrome finished Steinberger guitar — including the fingerboard — and then found that stage lighting rendered the instrument too dazzling to use . |