Example sentences of "was [adv] [adv] [adj] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You know , Harry , when I met Dr Kingdom , it seemed to me he was altogether too self-possessed to be true . |
| 2 | At the Temple of the Seven-Handed Sek a hasty convocation of priests and ritual heart-transplant artisans agreed that the hundred-span high statue of Sek was altogether too holy to be made into a magic picture , but a payment of two rhinu left them astoundedly agreeing that perhaps He was n't as holy as all that . |
| 3 | I was so bloody delighted to be alive I moved corpses minus their heads , legs and arms , and did n't turn a hair . |
| 4 | Lord Justice Slade said that , in the case of ‘ sleepers ’ , it was all too easy to be wise after the event . |
| 5 | It was all too good to be true . |
| 6 | And , equally clearly , Ralf was only too anxious to be on his way before the hostilities he had interrupted broke out again . |
| 7 | It was all at my fingertips and I was only too pleased to be of some assistance , from whatever quarter the request came . |
| 8 | I was only too happy to be busy breaking the coal up with the hammer , pulling out the drawer pan and stoking up the fire with the bellows . |
| 9 | Sleepy and satisfied , Emily was only too willing to be tucked up in bed , just after nine o'clock . |
| 10 | His work demonstrates that an older person was much more likely to be taken into the household of a relative if they were able to contribute something in return , for example doing domestic work , or looking after children while their mother went out to a job . |
| 11 | Like the effect of programme scheduling on TV audience sizes , a story put on the front page was much more likely to be read than something buried inside , and ‘ page traffic ’ figures show slightly higher noting of items on right-hand than left-hand pages . |
| 12 | It was much too obsessive to be erotic . |
| 13 | At Panmure Gordon , Charles Donald said it was within the letter of US regulations and was thus always likely to be approved . |
| 14 | There was already too much to be assimilated , considered . |
| 15 | There was just so much to be crammed into each short day . |
| 16 | ‘ I was just so excited to be here . |
| 17 | The night shift was no trouble to me if Nigel was at home , but he was just as likely to be thousands of miles away , doing something with lighthouses . |
| 18 | In the modern empirical study of politics , the emphasis upon psychological factors in explaining political behaviour is more frequently associated with Graham Walles , whose Human Nature in Politics showed that the political behaviour of individuals was just as likely to be the result of ‘ irrational ’ beliefs as of a rational' calculation of the benefits and penalties that may follow from such behaviour . |
| 19 | For , despite the increasingly desperate efforts of Sounds to separate the skins from the swastikas , for many observers the timing of the skinhead revival and the resurgence of right wing politics in the inner city ghettos was just too close to be coincidental . |
| 20 | You thought it was just too ridiculous to be true ? |
| 21 | ‘ It was just too bad to be true , ’ he added . |
| 22 | In their eyes she was just too glamorous to be serious about her job and Kate realised she was going to have her work cut out tomorrow morning if she was to get and retain their respect on equal terms . |
| 23 | In other areas Parliament has specifically provided that tax paid which was not lawfully due to be paid may be recovered and it has laid down the machinery and the conditions for repayment , including the payment of interest . |
| 24 | ‘ I felt if I was dropped it was not too bad to be dropped in favour of the second-best hooker in England . ’ |
| 25 | But it was not so easy to be dismissive of the Incas . |
| 26 | He had to translate early botanical , English , Scots and Gaelic names into their modern botanical equivalents , although it was not always possible to be precise . |
| 27 | Sometimes they 'd seen her , other times not , but it was always more exciting to be that close . |
| 28 | ‘ Partly because of the estate ; there was always too much to be done . |
| 29 | There was still so much to be seen . |
| 30 | There had been no doubt of Charles 's sensitivity or Andrew 's boisterous good nature ; Edward was still too young to be a cause of anxiety . |