Example sentences of "too [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be a spaceship , although it is moving too slowly to arrive at a star . |
| 2 | This week , the ageing lothario was horrified when a cloth-capped pensioner pursued him down a street , wreathed in smiles and waving an autograph book , The Rolling Stone coldly ignored him , appalled at being associated with a gummy grandad and perhaps being all too forcibly reminded of his own advancing years . |
| 3 | The view that applied studies should be of equal value and status with the theoretical is far too little understood in this country , almost alone in the world . |
| 4 | While this reform is specifically designed to prevent many of today 's disgruntled education consumers joining the ranks of tomorrow 's underclass , it will of course have implications for a much wider group of young people , whose talents and needs have been all too little met by the emphasis on the reorganization of secondary education to the exclusion of all other considerations . |
| 5 | It was this sort of situation the Agency committee had in mind in justifying its activities because ‘ provincial associations have become inert and inefficient ’ with the result that local groups concluded ‘ their own individual exertions were too little sustained by those of similar bodies elsewhere to be of real utility ’ . |
| 6 | The real measure of the show 's international appeal is its inclusion not only of the more traditional Italian names , but also a remarkable array of French ( Prud'hon , Fragonard , Natoire ) and Northern drawings , ( notably Goltzius and Spranger ) and nineteenth-century artists including Adolph Menzel and , too little known outside their native Italy , Bartolomeo Pinelli , Vincenzo Gemito and Vincenzo Camuccini . |
| 7 | Keeping a diary is still a profound method of studying daily life and one far too little utilised in sociology . |
| 8 | On August 2nd the new Prime Minister returned from Potsdam with all too little settled by the Big Three and completed the formation of his Government . |
| 9 | In that year the Cohen Committee succinctly explained how this state of affairs had come about : ‘ [ t ] he illusory nature of the control theoretically exercised by the shareholders over directors has been accentuated by the dispersion of capital among an increasing number of small shareholders who pay little attention to their investments so long as satisfactory dividends are forthcoming , who lack sufficient time , money and experience to make full use of their rights as occasion arises and who are , in many cases , too numerous and too widely dispersed to be able to organise themselves ’ . |
| 10 | An admirable Edwardian pub with some attractive art nouveau not too badly impaired with the passage of time . |
| 11 | ‘ She did n't seem to be too badly affected by this . |
| 12 | Actually , the ‘ embarrassment of riches ’ problem boils down to the same failing as that of the biological and personality-type theories : they both produced categories that were , apparently , far too weakly related to crime to be worthy of a ‘ positivist ’ discipline . |
| 13 | An insight into the workings of the learned profession of a kind all too rarely offered by the early sources is to be found in an anecdote concerning the appointment of Kemalpasazade to his first post . |
| 14 | Both believed that it was too locally various and too unsystematically administered at the local level . |
| 15 | ‘ He tried to say it was too much worry for him but I know him too well to believe that . |
| 16 | Women whose ovaries produce too much suffer from hair on the face and chest , which they find very upsetting . |
| 17 | These were also too much related to the exercise of political power than to the compassionate provision of local services . |
| 18 | ‘ I think the memory of children can not , in reason , be too much stored with the objects and facts of natural history . |
| 19 | What is consoling is that one may be perfectly sure that if one perishes in the barbed wire , they will not be too much affected by the loss . |
| 20 | She had even let Doc Threadneedle into her greymass to plug a few loops , although she did n't want too much done in there . |
| 21 | Wordsworth , Coleridge and Dorothy have been too much revered by their admirers , and their common humanity played down . |
| 22 | Although in prose — as one says , perhaps too much influenced by the conventions of the comedies — this is one of the most serious scenes in the play ( 91–229 ) , and when the soldiers have left the King ascends to verse for what is to me the most deeply felt speech of all : In his own persona the King speaks verse , entering on to a prose-scene between Fluellen and Gower to express his anger at the French murder of the luggage-minders , and continuing in verse to Fluellen ( IV.vii.55–118 ) . |
| 23 | A variant theme in recent historiography has been that by the mid-ninth century , nobles had been too much influenced by the church 's stress on peace , and had thus become unfit for military service . |
| 24 | Jimmy and Denis we decided would not look too kindly on our request , the one being too staid and the other too much engrossed in his wife and family . |
| 25 | This afternoon , however , she was too much perturbed in her mind to trouble about such things , and she rounded the corner at a run which would have spelt disaster had anyone been coming in the opposite direction . |
| 26 | The whole country has a huge negative balance of visible trade , its manufacturing ( and exporting ) industry weakened and its range dangerously uncomprehensive , too much characterised by low added value . |
| 27 | Robert does n't want too much made of Henry 's early days , but the fact is , he saved the six-month-old pup' life . |
| 28 | A : There 's too much made of the whole dog show business . |
| 29 | ‘ There 's altogether too much said at the Black Lion , ’ Mrs Yardley said darkly . |
| 30 | Art that is too much tied to the field of power has little to worry about from avant-gardes . |