Example sentences of "have been too [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Philip is ironic also about his tendency to think in terms of ‘ higher ’ literature , and he discredits the validity of a quotation from Eliot , when it comes into his mind , simply on the grounds that he has been too corrupted by contemporary culture for anything that occurs to him spontaneously to have lasting value : |
| 2 | The church throughout its history has been too preoccupied with building Christian civilisation at the expense of ‘ realising ’ the kingdom . |
| 3 | Hussey denies the charge that he has been too much of a ‘ hands-on ’ chairman . |
| 4 | ‘ There has been too much of that already , ’ said Owen . |
| 5 | Even the very limited amount of competition and market liberalisation proposed in the Electricity and Gas Directives has been too much for the German ( highly inefficient ) coal-mining interests to swallow . |
| 6 | ‘ I think everything has been too easy for him up to now , that 's Richard 's trouble . |
| 7 | ‘ Flashman 's behaviour has been too pathetic for words . ’ |
| 8 | It has been too complacent in collecting large sums of money from a few lucrative inventions , such as the cephalosporin antibiotics , and has not taken on enough risky new ventures . |
| 9 | Whilst the overall sums have been low , and there has also been criticism that the time period for these grants has been too short for the more innovative projects , some success in the movement of mentally handicapped and ill people into the community has been achieved . |
| 10 | In other words , according to its critics , the Conservative government has been too concerned with ownership and not concerned enough with the quantity and quality of the housing stock . |
| 11 | And indeed there are some who make think that the County Council has been too generous in that the reduction from the hundred percent migration in four districts , er amounts only to somewhere about four and a half er thousand dwellings . |
| 12 | Until now the possibility had n't occurred to Godolphin — he 'd been too preoccupied by the secret that he 'd lived with most of his adult life — but it was an intriguing , and disturbing , thought . |
| 13 | In the end she 'd been too good for her lowly position . |
| 14 | ‘ Who told you that ? ’ she asked , her voice cracked and full of breath she 'd been too shocked to exhale . |
| 15 | Perhaps , I thought , I 'd been too hasty in rejecting Sergia and her muscle-bound cohorts . |
| 16 | Or else he 'd been too afraid of the answer . |
| 17 | How could she explain that she 'd been too frightened of the dammed-up emotion she 'd felt in both her mother and father ? |
| 18 | He 'd asked her to wait for him , and although she 'd been too angry at the time to say that she would , she had nevertheless avoided marriage to anyone else despite the many proposals she 'd had . |
| 19 | We chose the pool because the Atlantic beaches would have been too rough after the race . |
| 20 | He may not have been too keen on his height or his face , but he was proud of his physique . |
| 21 | It is more likely to be about sore things from childhood , which we were not allowed properly to experience or mourn : or we may have been too young in emotional or physical development to cope . |
| 22 | Emily would have been too strong for me . |
| 23 | Although insufficient to provide the full service , these bogie cars were worked hard on the main line and sometimes worked to Thornton Heath but never to Addiscombe or Penge , where they might have been too long for some of the passing loops on these lines . |
| 24 | Walking down the aisle would have been too tame for Timothy , a carnival gaming agent from Florida , and Nony Tedjakasume , a computer analyst from Jakarta , Indonesia . |
| 25 | ‘ I half-expected it because the Federation was n't going to admit to making a mistake , because after the Butch Reynolds case it would have been too expensive for them . ’ |
| 26 | It would have been too expensive in electricity to pipe hot water from the house , which is about 40ft away , although the pipe run could have followed the cold water supply , which is taken , underground , from the house . |
| 27 | The Panel agreed it would have been too traumatic for the children to bring them back . |
| 28 | It added weight to the criticism that the selectors may have been too hasty in ignoring this race as the final trial . |
| 29 | Luckily Miss Malley was on leave at the time , otherwise this event might just have been too much for her . |
| 30 | It would have been too much for poor Bridget , looking after them , when she had so much to do . |