Example sentences of "it [was/were] [adv] much [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would n't be at all surprised if it were too much to get finished in one day — which would mean that she 'd have to stay overnight . ’ |
| 2 | It was too much to ask her boss , a creature of the system , to challenge it in any way . |
| 3 | If yo I hope you , I suppose you could have a whole course in psycho-history , if you really put into it enough , but for just one class , I thought it was too much to ask students to attend , to try and have to get into psycho-history , so I have n't erm , done very much of it , and this , my excuse here really was , well Freud did write a book called Woodrow Wilson . |
| 4 | Lord in heaven , but it was too much to ask ! |
| 5 | He had been immersed in the clean up work for nearly a month and he wanted to be with friends who restore and collect aircraft and who could empathise more fully than most with him about the size of the task and who also might offer some constructive ideas ‘ At first I was in shock , it was too much to comprehend ’ , shared Kermit . |
| 6 | It was too much to hope that any sign of human presence in the tree would have survived two and a half wintry weeks . |
| 7 | But she had been lucky once , it was too much to hope for another equally timely arrival . |
| 8 | But it was too much to hope . |
| 9 | She knew it was too much to hope he would arrive in the office with all his worldly possessions , but longed for proof that he had moved out . |
| 10 | It was too much to hope for . |
| 11 | ‘ I suppose it was too much to expect a quiet afternoon , , Corporal Broadhead comments as he answers the call . |
| 12 | It was too much to expect , not the way of the world . |
| 13 | It was too much to expect ; and there probably wo n't be anything in any of the galleries . |
| 14 | Perhaps it was too much to expect of the Government to spell out , as many had wanted , who should be trained , to what level and within what timescale . |
| 15 | But this … no , by God , it was too much to expect of him ! |
| 16 | Yes we have obviously got problems throughout the team , and I think it was too much to expect Leeds to put in a real championship challenge . |
| 17 | SURELY it was too much to expect . |
| 18 | But in terms of the preparation for that , in bidding for grant aid , and it was very much tied into a successful bid for grant aid , that was forthcoming but only on the grounds that the scheme was committed by the end of December . |
| 19 | It was very much recommended by the Wine Society an Italian wine and I hope that |
| 20 | It was , it was as much to do with what kind of things would you like to see |
| 21 | It was as much to disprove some of their absurd assumptions as to help you prove your own theories that I agreed to come in on this project . |