Example sentences of "be [noun] too [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think I prefer to get it like that and , instead of having a whole onion it 's better when , they 're , the big ones like they are bit too big are n't they ? |
| 2 | One reason is that owners are often stronger than intruders , which are animals too weak to have been able to set up a territory . |
| 3 | These are balls too big and important to juggle carelessly and Hooto ( TM ) , earnest , needy , industrious but essentially an intellectual featherweight , does n't even manage to lift them off the ground . |
| 4 | CPRE and TCPA argue , however , that hidden damage to the environment ( destruction of the water-table and long term reduction in agricultural productivity ) , as well as the destruction of mature countryside created through the centuries , are costs too high to be offset by the benefits of cheap , clean coal ’ . |
| 5 | well its gon na be miles too long |
| 6 | Cos they were , they were gon na be miles too long . |
| 7 | I seem to think you should take the easy bit , cos that 's gon na be miles too hard ! |
| 8 | There were murmurs too that other constraints to a small family norm had been grossly neglected , particularly the only slowly falling rate of infant and child mortality in many backward areas . |
| 9 | The holdings varied greatly in size : some were almost small farms while others were plots too small to support their owners . |
| 10 | A more liberal regime , a greater degree of economic freedom , serious political experiment of any kind , even had Frederick ever desired such things , were luxuries too dangerous to be indulged in under these conditions . |
| 11 | Alice those socks are way too small for you . |
| 12 | Hence , the price of a future is £1400 too low . |
| 13 | There 's disagreement too over road planning for Aylesbury . |
| 14 | There is evidence too that ice near the coast has in the past been thicker , for many coastal islands and mountains carry the scars of glacial movement on their exposed surfaces . |
| 15 | When is knowledge too remote ? |
| 16 | We know that the immune system in that disease produces immunoglobulins ( which are antibodies , in the spinal fluid , which is the fluid surrounding the brain and spinal chord ) product antibodies there in the way that normal people do not , and there 's evidence too that around the areas of damaged insulation in the central nervous system , which is the characteristic abnormality or lesion in this condition , there are cells that are known to be committed to making antibody , or to aiding the production of antibody . |
| 17 | Is Haycastle too far ? |
| 18 | This is sugar too many sugar |
| 19 | For men who never question whether they should go , is £6 too much to ask ? |
| 20 | For men who never question whether they should go , is £6 too much to ask ? |
| 21 | As one of them was heard to remark recently , ' as far as ah 'm concerned , that lad is Tendulkars too many . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Is Glasgow too conservative for this ? ’ teases Rose . |
| 23 | I think she 's gardening too much ! |
| 24 | And if ever there 's tuppence too much on the bloody account he 's on the blower ! |
| 25 | ‘ My skirt is miles too long . |
| 26 | The party organization , the party , machine , the party bureaucracy — these are expressions too convenient to be entirely dispensed with , and they are not always used inaccurately . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm just intrigued as to why you should be dressed in clothes that are miles too big at — ’ she glanced at her watch ‘ — at ten o'clock in the morning . |
| 28 | Commonsense , not without distinguished endorsement from past centuries , thinks as Hart Crane did that it is not true at all ; that on the contrary there are occasions too trivial , too lacking in dignity or resonance , to deserve the ceremoniousness that , as Tomlinson perceived , verse-writing always brings with it . |
| 29 | Morgan paid $480m ( in bonds , not cash ) for Carnegie Steel , a price Andrew Carnegie later felt was $100m too low . |
| 30 | The scene was alI too familiar to the soldiers , both from C Company of the 5th ( County Londonderry ) Battalion of the Ulster Defence Regiment , but on this occasion the circumstances were rather unusual . |