Example sentences of "may be too [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be because people are not aware that these benefits exist ; they do not wish to ask for help while they can manage on what they have ; or they may be too proud to claim , thinking that it is like asking for charity . |
| 2 | There are some steamy bed scene , which may be too hot for most of Kylie 's young fans to see , but it could turn a whole new audience on to her charms . |
| 3 | This temperature may be too low for comfort in a regularly used living room , so try and find a cooler spot for a longer display . |
| 4 | These percentages may be too low : with progression of the deformity to atlantoaxial impaction the magnitude of the atlantoaxial subluxation may seem on radiography to be reduced , giving the false impression radiographically of improvement . |
| 5 | For this reason , also the obtained coefficients may be too low to reach statistical significance in the sample used , and therefore may fail to provide evidence of the test 's validity . |
| 6 | The arguments against include : members should not be forced to share facilities with women , the pavilion may be too small , the pavilion has no women 's toilets , women have adequate facilities of their own , some men wish to get away from women , and ‘ lady subscribers ’ might not wish to become full members . |
| 7 | Blue whales are no longer hunted , but their numbers were depleted to such an extent in the past that present populations ( perhaps of only a few hundred individuals ) may be too small to recover . |
| 8 | The tissue obtained may be too small for histological examination but satisfactory for cytology . |
| 9 | Given the political pressures that often drive antitrust policy , a consistently optimal level of enforcement may be too much to ask for . |
| 10 | I set out a position which argues that there may be too much and also too little evidence for the existence of God to make religious belief a tenable option . |
| 11 | The second thing to consider is that if you are eating the amount you say , then this may be too much . |
| 12 | She is in shock and in pain and requires an immediate transfusion of love and an injection of strength in the form of your quiet sympathy and understanding , and practical help with all the arrangements she has to make , as well as assistance with the simple routines of daily living ; for even these may be too much for her to cope with alone while she is engaged in the important and necessary task of grieving . |
| 13 | ‘ I know he wants to , but all these children riding and such family solidarity may be too much for him . ’ |
| 14 | Whilst it may be too much to ask that you immediately take on any responsibility for seeing that the 120,000 weekly NME s are properly recycled ( By heck , we are talking SERIOUS wank — ER ! — SW ) , you could perhaps act responsibly by doing your bit to ease unemployment by taking on someone with the job of disposing of your own rubbish soundly . |
| 15 | Yet sometimes such suffering may be too much to bear , and is perhaps best dealt with by an elder attempting to return to former levels of less authentic but endurable adaptations to life . |
| 16 | The path on is across slopes just as steep as these and , in the wet especially , the exposure may be too much for some . |
| 17 | While it may be too much to expect the applicant to appreciate the wider impact and implications of his proposal , and while it may be unreasonable to expect any but the most steadfast defender of National Park principles to resist continual local pressure for change , CPRW hopes that this Inquiry will enable a more far- sighted view of what is at stake , to prevail . |
| 18 | He says Lawrence is a big man and it may be too much for his knee to take . |
| 19 | If they are doing purely local journeys , then that may be too much and they may prefer to use the Oxford ringroad , but if they are doing long-distance journeys ten miles is not a very significant addition to their journey in length and the congestion on the Oxford ringroad is such that it may actually be shorter in time terms to go the longer way round in distance . |
| 20 | Some mothers will be too disorganized to do this : either they may demonstrate a lack of concern about the problem or the stresses at home may be too great for it to be filled in reliably . |
| 21 | It may be too great a temptation to human frailty , apt to grasp at power , for the same persons who have the power of making laws , to have also in their hands the power to execute them , whereby they may exempt themselves from obedience to the laws they make , and suit the law , both in its making and execution , to their own private advantage . |
| 22 | THE ELECTION results have confirmed what most people already suspected — that the differences between the political parties and their supporters may be too great to be resolved in another round of talks , however well-meaning . |
| 23 | Where the " source " for a story dies , or is out of the country , or has been promised confidentiality , or goes back on what he said , the difficulties of proving the truth of a true statement may be too great . |
| 24 | However , it may be too expensive for undergraduates . |
| 25 | The method is aimed at large scale tap water treatment , but may be too expensive for current use . |
| 26 | Obviously something like a car could only be considered a bribe ; on the other hand a vacuum cleaner , say , may be too expensive to give away in bulk but could certainly be offered for comparative testing . |
| 27 | Heelas ( 1982 ) has also discussed the usefulness of catharsis as a general explanation for shedding undesirable violent emotions , and argues that the catharsis view of aggression may be too simplistic . |
| 28 | The pupil can : 1 detect a generalization and express it informally ; 2 describe a generalization , using particular examples ; 3 describe a generalization in general terms ; 4 state a generalization using algebra. 1–4 represent increasingly higher levels of response and may be too general for a graduated test scheme . |
| 29 | Once again , though , such a list may be too general and does not indicate any order of preference . |
| 30 | Oscar Orbos has done well as Mrs Aquino 's aide , but at 40 may be too young for the big job . |