Example sentences of "[been] too [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had n't been too well lately they said . |
| 2 | Alex has not been too well the last couple of days , you know . |
| 3 | He 's not been too well today . |
| 4 | ‘ Amy , No , she 's not been too well recently , I understand . |
| 5 | If the throw is judged to have been too poor , the person throwing it is out . |
| 6 | There his family , like all those in the village , had been too poor to eat anything but black bread , and so bagels , baked with expensive white flour , were the rarest of luxuries . |
| 7 | ‘ It sounds as though life 's not been too easy for you since then . ’ |
| 8 | Perhaps it would have been too easy : they 'd made love the first night they met , both involved with women who gave them pain . |
| 9 | ‘ I think everything has been too easy for him up to now , that 's Richard 's trouble . |
| 10 | In some ways I thought it had been too easy for me . |
| 11 | It had been too easy . |
| 12 | Her life 's been too easy . |
| 13 | It 's been too easy for us ; we 've led charmed lives till now . |
| 14 | It had , of course , been too easy . |
| 15 | It 's been too easy . |
| 16 | George decided to plunge ; he had already given away too much if Mr Nightingale himself was one of the List , but George did n't think he was , simply because he had been too easy to find . |
| 17 | It 's been too easy to stick a label on us in the past which says volume car maker . |
| 18 | Phoned and explained — or would that have been too simple ? ’ |
| 19 | She seems to have been too ignorant of , or to have too little regard to , those rules of the drama , and that happy management of plot and catastrophe , which often ensure success to poetry and sentiments much inferior to her own |
| 20 | He had been too engrossed in the anguish of his own thoughts to notice the approach of the two uniformed policemen . |
| 21 | The recession has not been too unkind to HCIMA . |
| 22 | In many respects the management of GEAR has been ineffective : goals have been defined too broadly , simply to ensure consensus ; organizations have been assimilated within GEAR for purely cosmetic purposes ; power has been too diffuse ; and too much has been made of environmental improvements when the local economy has been subject to dramatic changes and unemployment has risen substantially . |
| 23 | The drums had been too loud to hear the preliminary ripping , so when the tree suddenly crashed to the ground , no one moved . |
| 24 | LADY JONES : Why indeed , report has not been too lavish , I assure you . |
| 25 | Fernando Serra had been too perfect . |
| 26 | Police said other stations had not been evacuated because a warning call from the terrorists had been too vague . |
| 27 | The tentative diagnosis was that he had been too close to Daine 's fantasies and been subsumed into the structure of the Dream . |
| 28 | I 've been too close up against it . |
| 29 | That had been too close for comfort . |
| 30 | Th the shelf with containers on have been too close , you know those Tupperware containers ? |