Example sentences of "[be] too " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this way your gift to ACET will qualify for Gift Aid relief even though the monthly payments would be too small to do so . |
| 2 | The increase was even felt to be too great : in 1964 , when British groups reached 212 , it was decided to slow down the growth in the UK — not to ‘ act upon the ephemeral enthusiasms of an odd individual ’ , but to go for quality . |
| 3 | It would be too crude a generalisation , though , to say that critics are concerned with form , while historians are interested in the context of art ; both the forms and contexts of art are common ground for the critic and the historian . |
| 4 | It may be too late for man though . |
| 5 | The fact that there is no right time , he wrote , the fact that it is bound always to be too early or too late , that fact is little consolation . |
| 6 | Catering & Allied took presentations from half a dozen systems suppliers , and put three possibles on trial , but the two others were found to be too complex for the company 's purposes . |
| 7 | There will be some differences , but they may be too slight to be noticed by the customers , who would normally see only one piece of each item in any case . |
| 8 | The most common mistake with these cleaners is to be too heavy-handed , which can faintly score the surface , or to rub blades and spoon bowls in an irregular pattern and therefore cause unsightly marks . |
| 9 | ‘ You ca n't be too careful with a really crusty port , ’ said Henry . |
| 10 | It 's run by a private charity and they do n't normally accept referrals from outsiders but they did n't want to be too dogmatic about that . ’ |
| 11 | Or would that be too soon ? |
| 12 | This temperature may be too low for comfort in a regularly used living room , so try and find a cooler spot for a longer display . |
| 13 | Those on windowsills could be too cold at night , for example , while plants which spend the summer in darker corners might prefer a bright spot near to the window . |
| 14 | ‘ Can anything be too much ? ’ said Jay . |
| 15 | Alcohol and phonecalls , after an attack she would not let herself be too sober or alone . |
| 16 | If you are reasonable , we shall be too . ’ |
| 17 | He knew that to face their defeat in Strath Tay ( he assumed defeat now ) would be too wounding , too dispiriting : it would bring him near despair . |
| 18 | Not least in the sexual , for both projected a red-blooded response to their manhood which goes beyond the merely sexual or corporeal , claiming — demanding ! — the full world of nature and manhood as their proper spheres : nothing was to be too sacred , for all is sacred — a Blakeian conception which predates Blake in its patent Jewishness by millennia , not centuries . |
| 19 | The ensemble should , of course , not be too sexy , but polite , though not conciliatory — nothing that could suggest an inclination to join his mother in the kitchen to whip up a batch of fairy cakes . |
| 20 | They would all chip in later , of course , but she was too shattered right now , they must all be too shattered right now , to start doing sums , working out who had eaten what and how much it had cost . |
| 21 | It would not be too great a distortion of the facts to say that the main thrust of twentieth century sensory physiology has been to move the application of the doctrine of specific energies inwards from the sensory ending towards and into the cortex . |
| 22 | It may be because people are not aware that these benefits exist ; they do not wish to ask for help while they can manage on what they have ; or they may be too proud to claim , thinking that it is like asking for charity . |
| 23 | They can not be too strict about this relationship , for the score , whether commissioned or arranged , will only give some flavour of the traditional ways of singing and dancing . |
| 24 | ‘ A large brewery in Nigeria ca n't use coned hops — they need hops that will last and wo n't be too costly to transport . ’ |
| 25 | Let the dust settle then go for broke — by the time anyone realises what 's going on it will be too late and everyone can have a good time and relax . |
| 26 | The tool is supplied without a plug , but the lead is a generous 4m ( 13ft 1½in ) of rubber-covered flex so there should not be too much need for trailing extension leads . |
| 27 | Your owner may not be too happy but persevere and you 'll emerge triumphant and glorious . |
| 28 | D Kopitz ( EBU ) in discussing development of TMC admits that : ‘ The TMC device will probably be too complex to permit its incorporation within a standard car radio case . |
| 29 | They lead to confusion on the part of students , and it may be too glib to say , as one sometimes hears , that such confusion and disorientation are an inherently desirable part of the educational process . |
| 30 | This is the second year in a row that the Opposition leader has claimed to be too busy to talk to the boisterous crew . |