Example sentences of "too [adv] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they flow too slowly or too fast , deposits can be left behind . |
| 2 | The threshold time is therefore automatically raised or lowered to compensate for the reader being swept too slowly or too quickly . |
| 3 | At this point the Jews were being deconcentrated , were being channelled back into society , and it fell to us to help dismantle and disperse the ghettos , where the light was always failing and where the children all looked so old and full of knowledge , and everybody moved much too slowly or much too fast . |
| 4 | So , for example if somebody does reject a young man in a way that erm is n't appropriate in his eyes , he might then go around and start calling her all sorts of names and generally making other men think of her in bad way , and of course no eighteen year old woman wants young men to think badly of her , and so she puts pressure on herself not to reject advances too openly or too obviously or something like that , and the whole cycle starts again , and so and I think this is the sort of thing the college just can not have anything to do with , because that really is going too far , that 's interfering with the the one thing we could do , perhaps , is talk to the young women and make it clear that they do have the right to reject advances and that what they 've got to be concerned about whilst they 're at university is they 're academic career and making sure that that is n't affected by harassment . |
| 5 | At the beginning of a relationship sex is often taken for granted as a possibility , but girls have to take care that it does not happen too easily or too often . |
| 6 | It is just because whatever one has planned is bound to change as one proceeds that it is fatal to start too soon or too late , though it may be no less fatal , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , to start at the right time , for then there is no excuse , no excuse whatsoever . |
| 7 | A project is a project , he wrote , and once it is begun it should be carried through to the end , regardless of doubts about meaning , doubts about long runs , or doubts about anything else , unless the body screams for you to stop , of course one can not go on for long against the screaming of the body , but then that merely means one has miscalculated , it merely means one has begun too soon or too late or perhaps that the entire project was a miscalculation . |
| 8 | Thus a stream of pulses lasting 1 second each and given at 10 second intervals could be the ‘ background ’ ( they could be sound pulses or pulses on a screen , for example ) ; the ‘ signal ’ being sought could be the absence of a pulse , one that was shorter or longer than the standard value or one that appeared too soon or too late . |
| 9 | It is too soon for counsel or judgement , but never too soon or too late for prayer , if penitence is truly felt . ’ |
| 10 | Is it too soon or is it |
| 11 | After a 10-minute warm-up and stretch , you programme the bleepers to go off when you go too slow or too fast , and adjust your speed accordingly . |
| 12 | They could n't have done it too promptly or else she and the Archdeacon would have met them after their ill-fated call on the Dersinghams . |
| 13 | For example , a commitment to acknowledging and validating personal biography must not be a justification for intruding too deeply or too early into a woman 's personal history . |
| 14 | There will , however , always be those who tend to see the negative side and may well suggest you ‘ do n't lose weight too quickly or you 'll look old ’ or ‘ you 'll only put it back on twice as fast if you lose it quickly ’ . |
| 15 | This applies even if he seems to be selling them too quickly or too cheaply . |
| 16 | Uses low-status behaviour , avoids eye contact , keeps the face frozen , uses defensive body language , mumbles , speaks too quickly or too quietly , and uses too many ‘ ums ’ and ‘ ers ’ . |
| 17 | Do not knit too quickly or you will find that you are racking as you knit , which will break or damage the needles . |
| 18 | Correspondingly there may be output demands created by control operations which result in things happening too quickly or unexpectedly . |
| 19 | Good do n't forget if I go too quickly or if I give you too much say , Ooh hang on . |
| 20 | It is important that we should evolve out of this recession and out of rising unemployment and that we should not create a false boom by lowering interest rates too quickly or by Government over-borrowing . |
| 21 | ( However , it must be said that even here , the seller would probably not want the contract to be terminated too quickly or easily by the buyer , as the seller has more to lose by being denied the chance to perform and get full payment for the supply of his goods . ) |
| 22 | So , for example if somebody does reject a young man in a way that erm is n't appropriate in his eyes , he might then go around and start calling her all sorts of names and generally making other men think of her in bad way , and of course no eighteen year old woman wants young men to think badly of her , and so she puts pressure on herself not to reject advances too openly or too obviously or something like that , and the whole cycle starts again , and so and I think this is the sort of thing the college just can not have anything to do with , because that really is going too far , that 's interfering with the the one thing we could do , perhaps , is talk to the young women and make it clear that they do have the right to reject advances and that what they 've got to be concerned about whilst they 're at university is they 're academic career and making sure that that is n't affected by harassment . |
| 23 | He may with good reason be regarded as the first of that long line of professional civil servants who did more than any others to make and destroy the medieval Church : they were professional administrators , equipped to forward the interests of government not by main force but by negotiation amidst the intricate issues of law and theology ; men of international standing , retaining the respect of their opponents , and not too hatefully or too personally involved in the cause which they were required to maintain . |
| 24 | They were a happy family and very hospitable , but Mary told me I was not to call too often or I would wear out my welcome . |
| 25 | It was even acceptable to chant or recite a verse or two in public if the young mirza had ‘ beauty and a good voice ’ ; but he should not do so too often or at length for fear — heaven forbid — that he be mistaken for a professional poet or singer . |
| 26 | For example , if the patients ' bowels act too often or with great urgency , and espcially if there should be repeated episodes of faecal leakage or even frank incontinence , they might be better off with an ileostomy . |
| 27 | ‘ Of course we must n't stop helping others , ’ said Trusty , ‘ but we must help ourselves too now or we sha n't have any where to meet . ’ |
| 28 | Ted might decide he does n't like me any more , that I laugh too loudly or drink too much of his beer , and then we 'd have to get a tent . |
| 29 | The teacher used a stick to repeatedly tap or prod pupils whenever he felt that they had spoken too loudly or obscenely . |
| 30 | And within six years , wanting to register ( in The Criter - ion for 1934 ) the distinction of Binyon 's version of the Inferno despite its consistent inversions of prosaic word order , Pound found himself in the same situation , having to contend with those who had learned too well or too inflexibly the lessons he himself had taught them : |