Example sentences of "are [adv] too [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm The whole nature of the stock of teachers has changed and on , I 'm afraid , anybody 's reckoning , there are rather too many of them . |
| 2 | The problem is that they are rather too practical in their outlook and are used to doing as they please . ’ |
| 3 | An observation , which relates to gate valves in general — not just those on the filter above — is that they are rather too easy for small , unauthorised hands to operate . |
| 4 | Ian Lloyd Jones , Chris Jex , C. Allen and R. Wright have all been at work in the Llanberis slate quarries , although their findings are rather too numerous to record in detail . |
| 5 | Aside from the sports hall there are outside facilities , many of which are rather too cold to do in winter . |
| 6 | These are very fine , with a reasonably large field and a good light-grasp , though they are rather too heavy to be properly hand-held . |
| 7 | They are rather too prone to accept the point of view of reactionary educational committees which are afraid of the WEA . |
| 8 | Whilst this particular breed of company may be able to deliver efficient , cross-platform solutions , the trouble is that they are mostly too small to have any major significance for the industry as a whole . |
| 9 | We are altogether too frivolous towards feet and it is time that someone put their foot down . |
| 10 | About 50–60% of all cases of prostate cancer in the European Community present with obvious metastases or are locally too advanced for potentially curative management . |
| 11 | For yourself you will soon tell if your garments are constantly too small or large , too long or short . |
| 12 | Sense relations of the more specific sort are obviously too numerous and too idiosyncratic to form the basis for a general study of lexical semantics . |
| 13 | ‘ You are much too nice to be a politician . ’ |
| 14 | Such models are much too simple to describe the complex viscoelastic behaviour of a polymer , nor do they provide any real insight into the molecular mechanism of the process , but in certain instances they can prove useful in assisting the understanding of the viscoelastic process . |
| 15 | Its first movement comes across in terms that are much too broad for my liking , and in places , such as after the change to five flats in the development ( 6′14″ ) , proceedings almost threaten to come to a halt so that the whole structure does not cohere . |
| 16 | There are several Mira variables in Grus within binocular range when near maximum ( R , S and T ) , but for most of the time they are much too faint . |
| 17 | I expect all the Dogs Today staff are much too young to remember the Tail-waggers Club but perhaps some readers may . |
| 18 | ‘ Now , the white people who own the plantations are much too lazy to do the work themselves and that is why they buy black slaves from Africa to do it for them . |
| 19 | Because all known ureilites are much too small to have sustained high energy impact on the Earth , we conclude that they acquired their diamond-lonsdaleite intergrowths when their parent bodies collided with other objects while hurtling through space . |
| 20 | No contest on the teetery high-heeled shoes : mercifully for Rainbow , Goldie 's spare golden slippers are much too small . |
| 21 | PAMELA : You are much too generous . |
| 22 | It claims that it is as unhappy as ever with the reforms : the NHS is still short of cash and the reforms are much too bureaucratic . |
| 23 | You are much too bright not to have wondered . |
| 24 | Many executives are much too busy to give any in-depth thought to profit-making . |
| 25 | Too many persecutors are much too busy shouting ‘ burn the witch ’ to be able to find it , let alone grasp its meaning . |
| 26 | When your notes are growing in volume they are much too valuable to be carried around and perhaps lost . |
| 27 | Mr Lamont said : ‘ Some people are much too quick to run Britain down . |
| 28 | Would it be right to conclude from his remarks also that in place of the stipulations that exist — which are much too rigid and impractical to be accepted — he would allow the co-ordination of deficits by the market ? |
| 29 | Our rabbits are much too fast for you . ’ |
| 30 | Whatever we may think of their evocative names , ‘ Queen Elizabeth ’ and ‘ Peace ’ are much too boisterous to be given room in genteel society . |