Example sentences of "[conj] be too " in BNC.
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| 1 | SENSITIVE gardeners who baulk at using pesticides , or are too unfit for hoeing , should instead eat their way to a weed-free garden , it is suggested today . |
| 2 | Many truly deserving individuals do not realise what they are entitled to , or are too misguidedly proud to claim what is actually their money . |
| 3 | More than half a million people are treated for sexually transmitted diseases each year — and many more go untreated because they either do not recognise symptoms or are too embarrassed to go to their doctor . |
| 4 | Because the majority of college lecturers have yet to be convinced that there are better ways of conveying information — e.g. by the use of video or computer — or are too lazy to investigate or to try them . |
| 5 | If you 've been prescribed suppositories and you 're not sure how to use them or are too embarrassed to ask , the pharmacist will have explanatory leaflets . |
| 6 | bringing it into July or are too many people on holiday in July ? |
| 7 | If you 're on too friendly terms with him , you may be in danger of not doing your job properly as a governor , because it can be quite difficult to stand back from somebody in an objective way when you know them too well or are too closely involved with them . |
| 8 | He charmed his victims , drugged them , assaulted them and felt confident they would either not know what had happened or be too embarrassed to tell . |
| 9 | From this moment onwards , each character loses 1 W point per round , and anyone trying to cast spells or do anything else which requires concentration must make a successful T test or be too distracted by the pain . |
| 10 | But there were members on the EC [ executive committee ] who did n't relish either the trouble this would create or were too constitutional in their thinking . |
| 11 | Amphetamine produces its effects by causing certain neurons to release more of the neurotransmitter , dopamine — one of the many chemicals used in the brain to transmit signals from one cell to another — suggesting that schizophrenics either produced too much , or were too sensitive to the actions of the transmitter . |
| 12 | It can be seen that this was a way of ‘ blaming the victim ’ : it seems as though the young person had failed to find a job because they had not filled in the application form properly or were too untidy , rather than because there were not enough jobs . |
| 13 | The Russians undertook to protect their new vassals , but were often not disposed to or were too poorly endowed with manpower to help when asked to do so . |
| 14 | The ones which could not be changed , or were too important to be missed , she shared out with the others and put a schedule on their desks . |
| 15 | Quite simply , this guarantees you money which you will certainly need if a key person dies , or is too ill or too injured to work . |
| 16 | A problem in studying language is that it is often too close to individual speakers to be observed dispassionately : it is either taken for granted and not seen at all , or is too intimately involved in individual and social identity to be discussed objectively . |
| 17 | If the child does not know or is too shy to talk a suggestion that ‘ Perhaps mum or dad can remind you ? ’ and encouraging the parents to talk is one way around the problem . |
| 18 | She 's a long way from any source of supply and if there 's something that has to be specially made , or is too bulky to fly out — a new engine , for instance … ’ |
| 19 | Are they clear and easy to understand or is too much going on ? |
| 20 | Mind you , he 'd come home from university one time to see me in bed with flu , glasses and no front teeth , so I guess he was pretty immune to my charmlessness — or was too shortsighted himself to notice . |
| 21 | Remember how you were concerned for his or her welfare , how you wanted to know if he or she had slept well , had eaten properly or was too cold or too hot ? |
| 22 | ‘ Yes , he did , but Jason either did n't know or was too frightened to speak . |
| 23 | Sometimes he acted too hastily or was too reluctant to compromise , and in his first years in the White House he had to endure some harsh criticism . |
| 24 | Iris 's voice was heavily laced with irony , but Rose either did not notice or was too excited to be offended . |
| 25 | Mind you , he 'd come home from university one time to see me in bed with ‘ flu , glasses and no front teeth , so I guess he was pretty immune to my charmlessness — or was too shortsighted himself to notice . |
| 26 | The question was whether the cost of hire was recoverable or was too remote . |
| 27 | Attack only vulnerable stances that are too wide , too long , have no sidestep , etc . |
| 28 | The Hanson style can , of course , go wrong if headquarters misjudges a business and pushes its bosses to pursue targets that are too demanding . |
| 29 | On the other hand , in the middle of the first millennium AD , radiocarbon produces ‘ ages ’ that are too old by a century or so ( fig. 7.4 ) . |
| 30 | Bulbs that are too near the surface can make thick temporary roots ( contractile roots or ‘ droppers ’ ) which pull the bulb deeper into the soil . |