Example sentences of "too [adv] [vb pp] that " in BNC.

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1 It can not be too highly stressed that nobody else can exercise your subject/class choice but you .
2 It had been too easily assumed that strong representation by teachers through their unions ( which usually meant representation by powerful and semi-professional members who spent little time in class-rooms ) would somehow guarantee the active interest and participation of large numbers of ordinary teachers .
3 It is too often assumed that if a law is not designed to protect one man from another its only rationale can be that it is designed to punish moral wickedness , or in Lord Devlin 's words ‘ to enforce a moral principle ’ .
4 ‘ From these organisations have come community leaders who often were never involved in anything prior to this experience , people who too often believed that others knew better and could make better decisions .
5 It can not be too often repeated that there is no reason whatsoever why humanity should be made to believe that its religion must have origins in the literature and man-made traditions of the remote past .
6 Experience has too often shown that problems arise where there is a lack of sympathy with the Church and its worshippers .
7 Sadly , Christians have too often forgotten that the world belongs to Satan and is not our natural home ( as sons and daughters of the new humanity ) .
8 My Lords , at a time when more and more cases involve the application of legislation which gives effect to policies that are the subject of bitter public and parliamentary controversy , it can not be too strongly emphasised that the British constitution , though largely unwritten , is firmly based upon the separation of powers ; Parliament makes the laws , the judiciary interpret them .
9 ‘ At a time when more and more cases involve the application of legislation which gives effect to policies that are the subject or bitter public and parliamentary controversy , it can not be too strongly emphasised that the British constitution , though largely unwritten , is firmly based upon the separation of powers ; Parliament makes the laws , the judiciary interpret them .
10 It can not be too strongly stressed that people who use public parks enjoy seeing the building that was once its raison d'être .
11 It can not be too strongly stressed that the subject of letters is all-important and that , even though they may be complete with the signature , they are of little virtue or worth unless they say something of at least modest significance .
12 It has perhaps been too readily assumed that fear of death among Victorians was primarily fear of hell-fire .
13 And they have too readily assumed that legislative changes , such as the Obscene Publications Act , 1959 , the Sexual Offences Act , 1967 , the Abortion Act , 1967 and others , are sufficient evidence in support of the second , that the rules governing behaviour changed .
14 He has now achieved a similar reversal of consensus with regard to Clavierübung 111 and the Canonic Variations on ‘ Vom Himmel hoch ’ It has been too readily assumed that printed works were conceived as entities in their final form shortly before publication .
15 Their administrators had too readily supposed that the pleasure of kicking a ball across a stretch of grass was an acceptable substitute for the real danger and excitement of a raid .
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