Example sentences of "been too [adj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The recession has not been too unkind to HCIMA . |
| 2 | That had been too close for comfort . |
| 3 | The tentative diagnosis was that he had been too close to Daine 's fantasies and been subsumed into the structure of the Dream . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Had she been too preoccupied with butlers , with introductions , with orchestration , with champagne ? |
| 7 | It had officially been called the York Minster , or similar , but that had been too passé for Soho 's artist colony . |
| 8 | ‘ Who told you that ? ’ she asked , her voice cracked and full of breath she 'd been too shocked to exhale . |
| 9 | Her mother had n't been too pleased with Kevin as a son-in-law . |
| 10 | If the preceding analysis is correct , then Gundovald 's support can be seen to depend on three different groups : there were members of Childebert 's court , seemingly anxious to keep their options open until the king was recognized as being of an age to rule ; there were men who had been followers of Guntram , but whose positions had been compromised ; and finally there were military leaders who had been in the service of Chilperic , but who had been too far from court at the time of his murder to ensure their survival under Chlothar II , whose own succession could scarcely be taken for granted . |
| 11 | Rather than concluding that I had been too radical in Opposition , I fast came to the view 1 had been too cautious . |
| 12 | The last time she had walked down this lane she had been too anxious about Susan to notice very much . |
| 13 | ‘ Flashman 's behaviour has been too pathetic for words . ’ |
| 14 | HOLLYWOOD HAS never been too sure about reading . |
| 15 | The size of the taps throughout the house is one of the few exceptions to scale , as an exact one twelfth in the plumbing system would have been too small for water to run through the pipes . |
| 16 | The family were kind and well-meaning , but they could not help , they had been too long in Brickley . |
| 17 | Perhaps she had been too old for parenthood , and then it was very sad for a girl to lose her father in her teens . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The Karimojong happily accepted these unexpected free gifts but have not been too enthusiastic about development projects introduced after the famine . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The authorities were investigating certain matters that had occurred during the Terror , at which time no-one had been too concerned about violence in the streets and the occasional unexplained corpse . |
| 22 | He had loved that girl from afar after that first incident , but she had been too full of fun and the love of life to worry about boyfriends . |
| 23 | She did need a shower to wash away the tension from a day that had been too full of emotion . |
| 24 | ‘ Anyway , it 's been you who have been too busy for months . ’ |
| 25 | She has written to the Attorney General protesting that the courts have been too lenient on Dr Courtney and she has tabled a Parliamentary Question to Sir Nicholas designed to force a judicial review of the sentence . |
| 26 | It had been too incredible for words to describe . |
| 27 | But it has not been too cold at night and hopefully this wo n't go on until the winter . |
| 28 | The lure had been too compelling for Heather to resist and he had the photographs to prove it . |