Example sentences of "[adj] to [be] too [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Office of Works considered this to be too expensive in land acquisition and Burton then prepared another scheme , which was confined to Crown land , retained Fludyer 's house and No. 15 , and had a wing extending along the south side of Downing Street . |
| 2 | But , as Muz Murray pointed out to Bristol 's Occult Bookshop 's Robert Gilbert who had been attacking other underground papers , it was wrong to be too hard on the others . |
| 3 | It would be wrong to be too sentimental about what ‘ freedom ’ meant to Greeks ; Thucydides ( iii.45.6 ) makes a speaker use the phrase ‘ freedom , or rule over others ’ , and similar uses can be found in Greek authors from Herodotus ( i.210 ) to Polybius ( v.106 ) . |
| 4 | I think I was actually too cold and too wet to be too worried about the outcome . |
| 5 | We know it is foolish to be too trusting of other people , but may we be prepared to take risks sometimes and give other people a chance to get close to us . |
| 6 | I felt suddenly afraid of him , afraid to be too close to his pain , knowing I 'd caused it . |
| 7 | It is clearly dangerous to be too sweeping about the type of support which fascism received , for the evidence is far too diffuse and fragmentary , but it would be fair to accept Wal Hannington 's point that the allegiance to the trade unions and the Labour Party prevented the working class and the unemployed being attracted to fascism though he felt that , ‘ Every locality where the unemployed remain unorganized is a potential breeding-ground for this country , just as it was in Germany . ’ |
| 8 | Yet apart from Werth 's strong vocal and Keith Gemmell 's muscular sax playing , it 's hard to be too enthusiastic about Audience today . |
| 9 | Clearly , the patient is likely to be too distressed for such an approach early on in the admission . |
| 10 | Jazz and dance exercise and aerobics are likely to be too demanding at the pace established in many classes . |
| 11 | In short , of the rules and generalisations that could be made about conveying attitudes through intonation , those which are not actually wrong are likely to be too trivial to be worth learning . |
| 12 | Most other components simply are not offered in tested packs , or if they are , the cost is likely to be too high for most of us to be able to give them serious consideration . |
| 13 | The manager may take on that role but the new volunteers may find that they lack support as the manager is likely to be too busy with other duties to carry out the in-bureau training task thoroughly . |
| 14 | On the other hand it is unwise to be too democratic about this . |
| 15 | This study has yet far to go and it would be unwise to be too dogmatic about sources and influences at this stage . |
| 16 | they are apt to be too large for constructive action , since the time taken by a committee to resolve a problem tends to be in direct proportion to its size ; |
| 17 | IS IT POSSIBLE to be too nice to be a television presenter ? |
| 18 | In Ego Dormio he explains to the Sister that as she grows in her love of Christ , she will find nothing matters to her but this love and the sin of man which disfigures it , and that all this is focused by thinking on the Passion of Christ : Although in The Form he makes it clear to Margaret that it is difficult to be too prescriptive about meditation , since God will put the kind of thoughts into her heart that are right for her , he does say in Emendatio Vitae that beginners in spiritual life may find the words of others helpful ( 8.120.31 – 2 ) and on occasions he himself wrote meditations on the Passion which embody his understanding of the catalysis they are designed to help . |