Example sentences of "[adj] [is] too " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is too short a time frame to be meaningful . |
| 2 | My first impression was this is too spectacular to think it happened . |
| 3 | To charges that this is too much of a good thing , the BBC say they have always given the World Championship around 70 hours and the audience figures remain high . |
| 4 | However , Table 25 shows that this is too general an assumption to make , particularly in areas where family and part-time farmers predominate . |
| 5 | This is too tremendous to be true , ’ breathed Captain Pugwash . |
| 6 | This is too small a number to make any claims to statistical representativeness . |
| 7 | But there is still controversy over whether this is too much of a compromise , and the church continues to deteriorate . |
| 8 | For the British or Western reader this is too easily read in terms of familiar histories of the left . |
| 9 | Do n't use your finger as this is too big and blocks out too much of the page ; in addition the speed at which your hand moves will be too slow . |
| 10 | ‘ Not that this is too bad , of course . ’ |
| 11 | In many instances this is too late to obviate desertification and soil erosion . |
| 12 | If initially you find this is too hard to do , see the reason why this time you are afraid to shut the door . |
| 13 | Ashagre acknowledges that this is too little . |
| 14 | AB : I can certainly see his point , but I just wonder whether this is too much of a generalisation . |
| 15 | ( Do not use an electric whisk as this is too strong and it will over-beat the egg whites . ) |
| 16 | This is too much for me , she thought , I am drowning . |
| 17 | Obviously , this is too valuable a tradition to be allowed to die out in the century that has seen more restriction of public access to land than any previous period of history , including the Enclosures . |
| 18 | The normal ( electronic ) shutter speed of a camcorder is unc of a second ; this is too slow to record rapid movement as anything other than a blur . |
| 19 | This is too sharp for Welshman , and Bollin Patrick can not be fancied after disappointing badly behind Mighty Mogul at Chepstow two weeks ago . |
| 20 | But this here hot pot , ’ he winked knowingly , ‘ this is too rich for your humans , even for an Emperor . ’ |
| 21 | The latest draft of the European Commission 's plan for telecommunications seeks deregulation of cross-border services within the Community from January 1996 and of all services , domestic and international , by the start of 1998 , Reuter reports from Brussels , and phone companies expect it to press for deregulation of phone service despite the industry 's reservations — ‘ It 's far too ambitious — we 're not opposed to deregulation but this is too fast , ’ Charlotte Pins , a director of corporate communications at Belgium 's Belgacom said ; France Telecom said it backed ‘ setting sights on 1998 or 2000 ’ as a deadline for freeing the phone service , but Community-wide rules on access to national networks , costs , tariffs and public service duties would have to be agreed shortly . |
| 22 | This is too gloomy . |
| 23 | Yet the evidence we have available suggests that this is too specific and narrow an example from which to generalise . |
| 24 | Like all generalizations , this is too simple . |
| 25 | The authentic Sky Catalogue 2000.0 ( Cambridge University Press/Sky Publishing Corporation , 1982 ) gives its luminosity as 200000 times that of the Sun ; even if this is too high , Canopus still qualifies as a cosmic searchlight . |
| 26 | This is too simple , because elite education does shape its clients , especially the newer entrants to the class who need shaping into ‘ gentlemen ’ . |
| 27 | This is too harsh , but points to an important ambiguity in Foucault 's work : the neologisms and allusive argument conceal an approximation to older theoretical traditions . |
| 28 | When should the caseworker say , " this is too complex for me I must pass the case on ! " ? |
| 29 | I 've left one thing showing , this if you , you 'd got , you tuck it in at the top there if you 've got some room , right , I 've left her thumb out , so that if this is too tight I can check the circulation , if the pink comes back it 's okay , can you get your fingers out ? |
| 30 | We feel that this is too high , but past experience has shown that undergraduates will only apply themselves to subjects which they perceive as relevant to their future careers . |