Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] been too [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her mother was reported in the Star as saying : ‘ It has all been too much for her . |
| 2 | Alex has not been too well the last couple of days , you know . |
| 3 | The recession has not been too unkind to HCIMA . |
| 4 | Perhaps I should add that Dr. Gray on occasions has not been too impressed with the WCC ! informs me that he was strong in his support of view at last year 's General Assembly that the Church of Scotland should withdraw from the WCC . |
| 5 | These insects rapidly lose their colour when dried , but it returns after soaking in water provided the drying has not been too prolonged . |
| 6 | LADY JONES : Why indeed , report has not been too lavish , I assure you . |
| 7 | There has not been too much building to spoil the village , and the population has not greatly altered over the years , so it is a pleasant village in which to live . |
| 8 | One of the problems , of course , is that , with the invariably available and endlessly enthusiastic Dixon having achieved the remarkable feat of being appointed to no fewer than five of Scotland 's summer tours , there has not been too much opportunity for anyone else to advance his claims . |
| 9 | But it has not been too cold at night and hopefully this wo n't go on until the winter . |
| 10 | It has just been too long . |
| 11 | The task has just been too great but perhaps some enthusiastic committed person may take it on , with back up from the Village Association . |
| 12 | The thing about my life , he wrote , is that everything has always been too late . |
| 13 | It had that brittle crinkly texture born of much hairdressing , and was ginger , of a brightness to which nature has always been too shy to aspire . |
| 14 | And you know this brings another important aspect up which is very important about communications , erm you know we 've jollied along talking about what communication is making sure people know you know what you want etcetera etcetera etcetera but also do n't forget that different people can have different perceptions of the same same things but as I say here we are we sat here we done we 've done about an hour an hour and a half on written communications and yet you know when we passed the papers around it has n't been too bad but there has been different things that people have gone for both in the writing of these reports and both in the marking of them as well . |
| 15 | Chris has n't been too bad though , his ears have been reasonable . |
| 16 | Yes touch wood , for flowers it has n't been too bad a year , so far , we have n't had very . |
| 17 | ‘ She obviously has n't been too careful about what she 's been eating . ’ |
| 18 | HOLLYWOOD HAS never been too sure about reading . |
| 19 | She had lost him for a while , at the party , but she 'd already been too drunk to worry . |
| 20 | Before a demoralising defeat when challenging Mike Tyson for the world heavyweight championship two years ago Biggs would have probably been too dangerous a proposition for Mason but something has gone from him since then and he was unable to fulfil bold pre-fight assertions . |
| 21 | He had perhaps been too long in high office , too isolated from discordant views by the well-oiled Birmingham machine to take full account of the volume of dissent . |
| 22 | It had all been too fast . |
| 23 | This alone had been enough to bring frowns to Felipe 's dark face , but as they were leaving Ana 's tears had suddenly been too much for Mitch to bear . |
| 24 | He had apparently been too happy to bother about sending word home . |
| 25 | There had already been too much of it in our novels . |
| 26 | She had brought a couple of dresses with her because she had not been too sure about the heat . |
| 27 | It seemed all of her father 's old acquaintances had not been too impressed by his choice of wife . |
| 28 | The truth had not been too difficult to discover . |
| 29 | The man she had just interviewed , a Mr Liam Groves , had not been too happy to be interviewed on Boxing Day . |
| 30 | Looking back at that period , the crucial difference in Conservative politicians was between those who thought that the last twenty or thirty years had not been too bad , and who were sceptical that anything better could be achieved , and those who hoped that something better could be won and saw the last quarter of a century as a slow but steady decline . |