Example sentences of "have not been too [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Alex has not been too well the last couple of days , you know .
2 The recession has not been too unkind to HCIMA .
3 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 .
4 These insects rapidly lose their colour when dried , but it returns after soaking in water provided the drying has not been too prolonged .
5 LADY JONES : Why indeed , report has not been too lavish , I assure you .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 But it has not been too cold at night and hopefully this wo n't go on until the winter .
9 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 .
10 Chris has n't been too bad though , his ears have been reasonable .
11 Yes touch wood , for flowers it has n't been too bad a year , so far , we have n't had very .
12 ‘ She obviously has n't been too careful about what she 's been eating . ’
13 She had brought a couple of dresses with her because she had not been too sure about the heat .
14 It seemed all of her father 's old acquaintances had not been too impressed by his choice of wife .
15 The truth had not been too difficult to discover .
16 The man she had just interviewed , a Mr Liam Groves , had not been too happy to be interviewed on Boxing Day .
17 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 .
18 Until he was seven his life at home though poverty stricken had not been too bad .
19 For some reason he had not been too worried out it last night , nor was he now .
20 we 've not , we 've not been too good at one of them
21 Her mother had n't been too pleased with Kevin as a son-in-law .
22 If I had n't been too dumb I could have come to Mars-U as well , then I would n't have been alone .
23 He had already put out feelers with local employers but they had n't been too keen on employing a well-known agitator ; even those who seemed sympathetic to the anti-nuclear cause did n't actually have work on offer .
24 He had n't been too well lately they said .
25 But to find her meant giving him the slip , and she had n't been too successful at that the last time .
26 Laurence had given her some money which fortunately she had n't been too proud to accept .
27 It had n't been too bad , apart from people being cold and wet and getting eaten all the time .
28 And some of the great families had n't been too happy about nomes being able to go where they pleased , without having to ask permission .
29 For weeks he had pushed thoughts of her out of his mind , and it had n't been too difficult at first .
30 It had n't been too difficult at first .
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