Example sentences of "be too [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With any luck he would have disappeared by now , caught up in discussions with prospective clients , and by the time he found her she would be too involved in other matters to be cornered . |
| 2 | Erm , I would have to say that 's going to be in the range of five hundred to six hundred , and very much depends to some extent on what happens in the winter months , and I 'm sorry to keep stressing this point , but we have n't yet got twelve months ' experience of operating this particular change , and until we 've got at least a year 's experience , and I think one would have to say , that some of the figures need to be portioned , but equally , you ca n't afford to be too cavalier in terms of your assumptions about that demand might reduce to , and I 'll touch a little later on how you control expenditure in those terms . |
| 3 | ‘ Alejandro say she too weak , ’ said Umberto , leaving unspoken the truth that Alejandro would be too mean to fork out the equivalent of $5,000 for a green and vicious mare . |
| 4 | But there 's no need to be too heartbroken , girls . |
| 5 | Shareholders may not be too heartened by such promises . |
| 6 | Brian approached a major manufacturer of garden pools and , while they were interested in principle , they felt that the unit would be too pricey for the end-user . |
| 7 | Remember to slice the peppers into ribbons lengthways : if you do them in the usual way as rings they will be too curved to slide in easily . |
| 8 | Central government was felt to be too remote from the people ; they lacked a sufficient sense of participation in its affairs and were beset by a sense of unresolved grievance . |
| 9 | The interest must not be too remote . |
| 10 | In spite of the removal of smoke by roof ventilation , the scene of operations would be too remote for direct visual observation to provide a reliable indication of progress and no degree of artificial lighting , even if it could be provided and relied upon in these circumstances would offer adequate assistance . |
| 11 | But they can not be too remote if a school — primary or secondary — is working to a curriculum blueprint which has been sought by successive governments and if we now accept that schools have only a limited choice in any broader expectations which society imposes upon them . |
| 12 | The court will not want the defendant to be liable indefinitely for damage and will impose a cut off point beyond which the damage is said to be too remote . |
| 13 | Regardless of the nature of the contract , damages may be awarded for all losses caused by the breach , subject to the general requirement that damages must not be too remote ( Hadley v Baxendale ( 1854 ) 23 LJ Ex 179 ) and that plaintiffs must take reasonable steps to mitigate their losses . |
| 14 | If they try again , they might not be too fussy about who they hurt in the process . ’ |
| 15 | The fact that there is no right time , he wrote , the fact that it is bound always to be too early or too late , that fact is little consolation . |
| 16 | ‘ Would three o'clock be too early ? ’ he asked crisply , and , as she shook her head : ‘ Three o'clock , then , Chignell ! |
| 17 | It is impossible in these Coronation days to judge how long it will take to get from place to place and I asked the taxi-driver not to be too early . |
| 18 | Cantona looked ahead to the derby game with Manchester City and said : ‘ I think Sunday may be too early . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Although it may be too early for Stuart Pearce at the present time , he will surely be in contention at some stage in the future . ’ |
| 20 | Obviously it may be too early to answer some of these questions fully , but the fact that I , in common with the majority of arts teachers working in secondary schools in this country , have been grappling with the very difficult process of assessing , marking and moderating the work of the first batch of pupils to take the GCSE examination will , I believe , give added force to some of the things I intend to say . |
| 21 | It might be too early to say , but researchers from Lima 's Universidad del Pacifico say that the informals are amazingly responsible , and punctually keep up with the interest payments on their loans . |
| 22 | However , wood from Trelleborg now implies a construction date of c.980 , and if the other camps are of the same period this would seem to be too early for a connection with Danish raids on England , which are not known to have begun until a decade later ( but see pages 20-2 ) . |
| 23 | The increase was even felt to be too great : in 1964 , when British groups reached 212 , it was decided to slow down the growth in the UK — not to ‘ act upon the ephemeral enthusiasms of an odd individual ’ , but to go for quality . |
| 24 | It would not be too great a distortion of the facts to say that the main thrust of twentieth century sensory physiology has been to move the application of the doctrine of specific energies inwards from the sensory ending towards and into the cortex . |
| 25 | Last year Mr Gorbachev rejected a package of radical economic reforms in favour of quarter-measures , fearful that the centre would have to forfeit too much power and that social costs — higher prices , steeply rising unemployment — would be too great . |
| 26 | If we do not make provision now , the burden we will place on our children will be too great . |
| 27 | Your speed should not be too great otherwise you will not be able to control the flight of the board in the air . |
| 28 | The optimum angle varies between boards , but it should not be too great or the sideways resistance of the daggerboard is decreased . |
| 29 | On the other hand , some expressed the very destructive attitude ( discussed earlier in the chapter ) that expectations should not be too great , as they were after all ‘ only volunteers ’ . |
| 30 | Often the volume of references and information produced by online services is considered to be too great and this ‘ sea of information ’ is confusing to the user . |