Example sentences of "not too [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | you know it 's not too uncommon but you know it 's just a matter of |
| 2 | He told exporters to be aggressive — ‘ and not too gentlemanly ’ — in promoting home-grown products for overseas markets . |
| 3 | It was not too surprising , therefore , that one of the King , s former ministers , the Count of Lezay-Marnésia , should allow his daughter to become one of the Empress 's ladies , though he could not have known that his gesture would be immortalized , for she is one of those who figure in the famous painting by Winterhalter ( now in the Musée National du Chateau de Compiègne ) . |
| 4 | So , it is not too surprising that the signals and mechanism of development are virtually identical in the arm and the leg . |
| 5 | It is perhaps not too surprising that staff in the diplomatic corps and in government intelligence agencies are targets for violence while engaged in their daily work , but it is relatively recent in the UK , for example , to have an estate agent , a social worker , and a health visitor murdered while at work ( Smith , 1988 ) . |
| 6 | For matrix materials like methane , nitrogen , krypton and xenon , this is not too surprising . |
| 7 | These results are not too surprising given the research findings discussed in the previous chapter and suggest that what is inherited as vulnerability to psychosis forms a broad set of dispositions that include both temperamental and cognitive features . |
| 8 | IT 'S NOT too surprising to discover that House Of Love 's mainman , Guy Chadwick lives in a house that is , literally , a house of love . |
| 9 | Multi-processors seem to be the flavour of the day at the moment and IBM Corp has been promising a multi-processing addition to its RS/6000 line for some time , so it 's not too surprising that we hear it 'll announce one in around six weeks for delivery later in the year . |
| 10 | Given these kind of records , it is perhaps not too surprising that Blondel can claim that the implementation of party programmes is " spasmodic and half-hearted " and that the influence of programmes on policy-making is " rather weak " . |
| 11 | Dr John Sykes , of Oxford , has won the national title ten times ; not too surprising when you consider he is a lexicographer ( a compiler of dictionaries ) . |
| 12 | Not too surprising really I suppose but erm I went up and erm heard the jazz at the Crown last night . |
| 13 | Poindexter was not too perturbed by this : arms , as he explained , were often ‘ the currency of any sort of business in the Middle East . ’ |
| 14 | The Scot had a chance to join Payne at five under , but was not too dismayed after bogeying the final hole . |
| 15 | I spat on my finger , rubbed it in the soot , then applied it to my eyebrow so that although it was not too convincing at close range , from a distance it looked natural enough . |
| 16 | A combination of these requirements can be found in a rod that is supple in its top half , but not too supple in the bottom half . |
| 17 | She is always turning from what has been offered her to say with a demure little sigh and smile , ‘ Oh , please , please … all I want is a cup of tea , weak but not too weak , and the teeniest weeniest bit of really crisp toast . ’ |
| 18 | He added , cynically , that if Labour came in ‘ it would be too weak to do much harm , but not too weak to get discredited ’ . |
| 19 | It has to be not too strong and not too weak . |
| 20 | ‘ Not too good , ’ I replied , ‘ Anything to eat or drink ? |
| 21 | Many of the programmes do little to stimulate the mind and sitting in a chair staring at a screen is not too good for the body either . |
| 22 | Leith 's history of biology is not too good — there were not fashionable Lamarckian revivals before Charles Darwin put pen to paper , the time gap was too small . |
| 23 | The food was not too good , nor too plentiful , so when I returned I was a lot lighter and a lot fitter . |
| 24 | ‘ Not too good , ’ I said , ‘ I 've just been told that Punch is closing . ’ |
| 25 | PS : Things are not too good at home — your Mother is well , but the house has been repossessed after I lost my job . |
| 26 | ‘ Not too good . ’ |
| 27 | He had thick glasses and his hearing was not too good towards the end of his umpiring days . |
| 28 | ‘ Her eyesight 's not too good now , ’ she continued , as though that might somehow render her mother 's behaviour less odd , as though by mere words she could be converted into a harmless , ordinary , ageing old lady , just like other people 's mothers . |
| 29 | Dogs can take you directly to a few kilos of heroin welded into the chassis , but they 're not too good at sniffing out a Renoir . |
| 30 | Relieved of the weight of the food in our panniers we returned to Fontanellato , where the latest news was not too good . |