Example sentences of "[noun] too [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last year we got caught on the break too many times … this year we have the pace/organisation to deal with that … and Lukic is nt bad at 1 on 1 's … |
| 2 | I 'm tempted to suggest the Mercedes S-class for being visually boring , but I respect Bruno Sacco too much , so I 'll plump for any current Maserati for not living up to the legend . |
| 3 | Several plants grouped together will create their own humid micro-climate , though overcrowding may make the combined effect too much . |
| 4 | The blonde hit the brakes too late and the wheels cut and thrust into the water , screaming . |
| 5 | Images that fill the corridor , packed with images too small to see with the naked eye . |
| 6 | But his eye is too keen and his feel for the different histories of these nations too strong to slip into one-answer explanations . |
| 7 | They found this conception too optimistic and accepted that not all schoolchildren possess the linguistic means to cope with their present communicative needs . |
| 8 | ‘ Fishing too easy ’ |
| 9 | Although it is now clear that Sutherland 's attempt to fit , indeed squash , corporate crime into his theory of differential association has not proved comfortable , and that his concentration on the economic as opposed to the physical and social effects of corporate crime made his study too one-sided , it none the less did , at the time , constitute a rich legacy to bequeath to criminology . |
| 10 | Though she was stiff and slightly sore , the tension that had made her talk too much , drop things , and jump at the smallest unexpected noise had completely disappeared . |
| 11 | Slowing down , she listened in case they were in the middle of a talk too personal to be interrupted ; but it soon became clear that they were discussing the house and the various improvements that might be made once Europe had reached some kind of normality again . |
| 12 | There was a fair indication too that , if she got the job , she was going to work harder than she had ever worked , in that she would have an assistant to work with her . |
| 13 | Maria Edgeworth [ q.v. ] mentions , in 1802 , that Watts had sold a four-volume novel ( untraced ) to William Lane [ q.v. ] for ten guineas and that Richard Lovell Edgeworth [ q.v. ] doubted her talent too much to recommend her to the publisher Joseph Johnson [ q.v . ] ; |
| 14 | Through the wonders of adoption , Peter Pan has become Peter Banning ( Robin Williams ) , a 40-year old wheeler-dealer American lawyer too busy with his mobile phone to turn up at his son 's baseball games or take much heed of his daughter . |
| 15 | Through the wonders of adoption , Peter Pan has become Peter Banning ( Robin Williams ) , a 40-year old wheeler-dealer American lawyer too busy with his mobile phone to turn up at his son 's baseball games or take much heed of his daughter . |
| 16 | It is a piece too that wears the woman , not the other way about . ’ |
| 17 | The uniform he was wearing seemed to have been assembled from outfits designed to fit several very different people : the sleeves were too long and the neck too wide , while the cap was so small it had left a pink welt around his forehead . |
| 18 | But somehow she could not imagine Francie putting his eye to the keyhole , even only once , just to see her without her knickers — his back was too stiff , his neck too rigid . |
| 19 | Finding the workload too much , ‘ Nibby ’ coaxed Reg Pybus back as his assistant , but when Walter Niblet dropped dead during a 3–1 defeat by Red Star Onglethorpe , Ken refused to appoint Reg as caretaker manager . |
| 20 | I hope the work will be interesting , I was a bit disappointed not to have the chance to tackle my own book as the main editor at last but of course one does n't want to rock the boat too much — there are too many people who 'd happily fill my shoes . |
| 21 | Here we 're sailing downwind and we want to turn left effectively , so that means moving the sail across the boat without changing the course of the boat too much . |
| 22 | I do n't know what to do , tt I ca n't really take that them all take that er I do n't want to kick the boat too hard |
| 23 | Hence , the price of a future is £1400 too low . |
| 24 | I m too big to go to ground , " he wailed gratefully , watching Andrew failing by any contortion to cram his shoulders into the mouth of the culvert . |
| 25 | Johnny hated Bella too much for there not to have been passion . |
| 26 | It 's a pleasure too sweet to be enjoyed without a little sharpness in it . |
| 27 | Brook , however , finds these words too static , and prefers the French equivalents ‘ repetition ’ , ‘ representation ’ and ‘ assistance ’ ( p. 154 ) , all of which , coincidentally , have special meanings in English . |
| 28 | All I hear is low murmuring , words too faint , a radio band clogged with interference . |
| 29 | She had heard those words too many times before to be impressed by them . |
| 30 | To explain , requires the use of terms less abstruse than that which is to be explained , and such terms can not always be found ; for as nothing can be proved but by supposing something intuitively known , and evident without Proof , so nothing can be defined but by the use of words too plain to admit a definition . |