Example sentences of "[prep] be too " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've got plants , quite a few plants upstairs , the only geraniums I 've put in my greenhouse has died , must of been too cold for them |
| 2 | and I said oh there 's Benjy , there must be something , you know , I thought it was one of the kids that had jumped or something because the little one had always climbing and jumping off the wall , breaking his leg you know the weak one , and the next minute saw the ambulance outside , but he must of been , it must of been too massive to be able to do anything cos he was n't breathing that bit you see |
| 3 | But do be aware that being a little easy-going in working out and rationing your calories can easily allow you to drift down the slippery slope towards being too easy-going to achieve weight loss . |
| 4 | The Ahlbergs have been accused of not facing up to the harsh realities of life , of being too cosy and sweet , but their latest picture book , Bye Bye Baby , published today , breaks the mould . |
| 5 | Berger was seventh on the grid , this the result of being too cautious with one set of qualifying tyres and too forceful with the other . |
| 6 | We have been accused by some of having too many features about the south of England , by others of having too many about Scotland and Wales ; of having too much mud on our boots , of romanticising the countryside , of being too green , too blue , too red , too expensive and aspirational in our tastes , too harshly realistic in our coverage of controversial issues . |
| 7 | The charges against him included that of being too soft on the Tibetans . |
| 8 | He was determined to be accessible during the campaign : in the past he had been accused of being too aloof . |
| 9 | Marlborough 's art work has been accused by some critics of being too prescribed , a charge Robin Child refutes , insisting that ‘ there has to be a starting point , a language learnt ’ . |
| 10 | Similarly , as soon as he shows the smallest sign of being too cold , or too warm , his environment is manipulated to create the conditions of maximum comfort . |
| 11 | His gregarious mother sometimes teases her son by accusing him of being too virtuous . |
| 12 | The breed probably paid the penalty of being too lightweight and failing to fatten well enough to meet farmers ’ demands for beef from their dairy herds . |
| 13 | Members of the School of Agronomy who have been accused of being too sympathetic with the problems and plight of the campesinos ( peasant farmers ) have been particularly targeted . |
| 14 | Lavelle then accused the agency 's top lawyer of being too tough on polluting companies . |
| 15 | If they had given the matter any thought , however , and some incident had alerted them to the dangers of being too relaxed , there was no doubt they would have strained every muscle to elude the worst poverty . |
| 16 | This combined emphasis — that doubt is not the same as unbelief but can lead naturally to it — directs us to a mature handling of doubt that avoids the extremes of being too hard or too soft on doubt . |
| 17 | Those who forget the first point fall into the error of being too hard . |
| 18 | But in Northern Nigeria the emotional satisfactions which could be experienced almost incidentally in Masailand could only be experienced at a price , that of being too careful to avoid offence . |
| 19 | He is on the verge of being too dedicated . |
| 20 | While acknowledging the danger of ideas casting reality in their own image and serving the cause of suppression , one needs to be wary , it seems to me , of being too readily persuaded by the heady vision of individual freedom which these tendencies invoke . |
| 21 | The danger of being too flexible is that the ergonomists will have an inadequate basis from which to design interfaces , training courses and other operator aids . |
| 22 | Doran says ‘ We have n't much technical expertise in the area of Windows and we 're wary of being too invasive of its code . |
| 23 | Russia 's anti-reformist central bank , which is Sberbank 's largest shareholder , tried to make it a subsidiary earlier this year — accusing its management , paradoxically , of being too profit-conscious . |
| 24 | Doran says ‘ We have n't much technical expertise in the area of Windows and we 're wary of being too invasive of its code . |
| 25 | Society today is so often accused of being too mercenary , and yet the current strength of the RNLI as an organisation dependent on volunteers and voluntary funding must surely temper such an outlook . ’ |
| 26 | But he declined on ground of being too busy . |
| 27 | " I 'm sure you do , " said Cowslip , looking round at the mudstained , bedraggled rabbits with an air of being too polite to comment . |
| 28 | The younger men are sometimes accused of being too officious , too ready to throw their weight around : |
| 29 | I am wary of being too emotive in this paper but also concerned to do justice to the seriousness of the struggle for health that people and their movements are undertaking in many parts of the world , including the Philippines . |
| 30 | My mum and dad had been through a very bad divorce , so I suppose she was frightened of being too strict and pushing me away , in case I turned against her . |