Example sentences of "if it [is] [verb] too " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if it is repeated too often the incessant jigging of hands makes the audience restless , too . |
| 2 | Not only should your jokes and humorous episodes be relevant to the theme of your book ( however slight that might be ) , but you should remember that a good joke becomes less good if it is followed too closely by another good joke . |
| 3 | Freeze frame is also possible with most videocassette machines but the picture is often unstable and the tape can be damaged if it is stopped too often at the same point . |
| 4 | But if it is pressed too far , medical imagery can lead to a sense of inevitability and passiveness which is inappropriate in resolving doubt . |
| 5 | Releasing the emotional threads is somewhat like cutting the umbilical cord : if it is done too soon , both parties risk severe injury through loss of blood , whereas if it is left too long , it becomes an obscenity , a viscous , unnatural-looking projection of the human body . |
| 6 | If it is emptying too slowly you can burn some of the holes a bit bigger with a cigarette end or cut them into wider slots with a knife or pair of scissors . |
| 7 | If it is set too low , then Offline will accomplish its workload using less ‘ portions ’ ie. it will calculate how many blocks can be stored and then continue until it has achieved that workload regardless of the 15 minute factor . |
| 8 | If it is set too high then the end of tape may be physically reached and Offline will believe there is still space available . |
| 9 | If it is set too low , then the opposite occurs and Offline will believe the tape is full when there may be more space available . |
| 10 | Releasing the emotional threads is somewhat like cutting the umbilical cord : if it is done too soon , both parties risk severe injury through loss of blood , whereas if it is left too long , it becomes an obscenity , a viscous , unnatural-looking projection of the human body . |
| 11 | If it is used too early , it can be confusing so that the reader has to ‘ count back ’ to find out who is speaking and readers are not generally prepared to do that too often . |
| 12 | And if it 's costing too much how about offering some of those giveaway subsidies ? |
| 13 | I should pick it up and bite it with your teeth if it 's getting too difficult . |