Example sentences of "too [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It too articulated social reform , but in spite of popular appeals to the people and to the common good , its narrow sectional base was sharply exposed by discourses around the struggles of the unemployed , The Alliance advocacy of cuts in relief undermined its support so drastically that the ground it lost on the council was never recovered .
2 The purpose was to show that he too used spoken language and that it and Tarvarian were mutually incomprehensible .
3 Temptation proved too strong one night when there were some naval cadets in the audience who threw flowers and chocolates up to the troupe and were waiting at the stage door after the show .
4 We 're always reading that prisons are far too overcrowded these days .
5 Well , I did n't say it was , because you ca n't be too careful these days with all these burglaries .
6 For one thing you ca n't be too careful these days , and for another I always manage to get stuck with the check when Connors eats with me .
7 You can never be too careful these days .
8 Montague 's tone is too shallow and lacking in body in the lower register to do justice to this ‘ breeches ’ role , and Ricciarelli , though often touching , has all too many and too conspicuous vocal difficulties above the stave .
9 Keynesians are critical of this policy , arguing that the uncertainty over interest rates , combined with a generally too restrictive monetary policy and a correspondingly too high average interest rate , is very damaging to business investment and hence long-term growth .
10 Others think the ‘ elitist ’ element should be provided by the establishment of graduate schools as in the American system , much admired in Germany , by which the high flyers can continue their specialised research training after fairly general and not too demanding first degrees .
11 If the redundancy package is too generous many staff will opt for that and not even consider relocating .
12 It too wanted statutory producer groups to protect jobs and profits .
13 The first is to try to achieve a combination in which the tones of the different parts of the design are sufficiently distinct to read clearly one from another but do not display too violent tonal contrasts , unless a particularly dramatic effect is part of your aim !
14 Do n't be too extravagant this evening .
15 Keynesians are critical of this policy , arguing that the uncertainty over interest rates , combined with a generally too restrictive monetary policy and a correspondingly too high average interest rate , is very damaging to business investment and hence long-term growth .
16 The Christian Democrats had a colourless premier , who was at odds with a too pushy local party chairman .
17 STEREOLAB continue to promote their Too Pure single release ‘ Low Fi ’ with Irish dates at
18 The too simple glacio-eustatic view of a descending series of old marine terraces being associated with interglacial high sea levels needs to be guarded against in areas such as East Anglia , where differential warping of the land may well have occurred .
19 But the hostility of the United States , and its rather too blatant financial involvement in the election campaign , may well have prolonged his regime — wrapped in the armour of outraged nationalism .
20 Instead she set about cooking herself a suitable supper in the almost too perfect little kitchen .
21 Via the Blue Grotto , which may not be too crowded this morning if we get there early enough . ’
22 HAMMERSMITH in west London , home of some all too visible faceless architecture , has been chosen as the site of what promises to be one of Britain 's most remarkable buildings , an enormous office block designed on natural lines by the Royal Gold Medallist Ralph Erskine , Jonathan Glancey writes .
23 And the poverty of these people was an all too visible accusing finger .
24 Two- and three-year-old fish are too large most birds , but have traditionally been an important part of the diet of the Shetland people .
25 It was also vital to raise the nuclear threshold in Europe by increasing the level of conventional forces , and yet the British , for all too obvious financial reasons , were doing just the opposite !
26 She was getting too suspicious these days .
27 Even in his very early and surprisingly few organ ricercari — notably the one del 8. tono on three closely worked subjects , and the one del 10. tono ( of which the one del 9. tono is essentially a shortened version ) where a canzon theme alternates with a motive worked in almost too facile descending sequences — Giovanni enters a different world from his uncle 's ricercari ; the last traces of the ‘ instrumental motet ’ have been erased .
28 Discussing the prose poem — a form of literature which , as used by Jacob , provides one of the closest literary parallels to Cubist painting in that it embodies simultaneously actions or events normally separated by time and space , which are fused into formal , difficult but rational and understandable creations — Jacob warns the poet and artist against ‘ the too dazzling precious stones which attract the eye at the expense of the whole ’ , and adds ‘ The poem is a constructed object and not the display window of a jeweller 's shop .
29 The Tory Government , my Lord Mayor , has for too long denied people the real choice .
30 Women lived too long these days .
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