Example sentences of "[is] too " in BNC.

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1 Occasionally the challenge is too daunting , and teams of writers combine forces rather than one author attempting to rival the knowledge and skills of a Leonardo .
2 Ahmed 's revenge is too bad to be condemned by the writer , who condemns his taste in furniture , and who condemns Jane .
3 ‘ T is too respective and too sociable
4 All my life , he wrote , I have been preparing myself for this moment , but if I have prepared myself correctly then it is so that when the moment came I should not be encumbered with the sensation of having waited for it all my life , for such a sensation , wrote Harsnet , is too heavy a burden for anyone to carry .
5 Is the problem that it is too much like a repetition of other areas of the glass ?
6 When it is too late to go on and too late to start again .
7 If the temperature is too low the beer will stop fermenting .
8 If the temperature is too high , the yeast will mutate and produce unpleasant off flavours in the beer .
9 If so , our sense of the true and the false is too easily deceived and manipulated .
10 No fate is too cruel for voracious snails , here devouring Iris foetida
11 Moving through a confined space , for example if the glider is too large to go through the door , it is always wise to go nose first , swinging the glider right round and out with its nose close to one door .
12 However , this increase in speed must not be relied on if the launch is too slow and the pilot wants more speed , because the cause of a slow launch may be the beginning of a power failure , in which case steepening up in the hope of creating more speed would be dangerous .
13 All the pilot can do is to signal if the launch is too fast or abandon the launch if it is to slow .
14 If the launch is too fast the pilot simply pulls up into a steeper climb .
15 If the speed is too low , the pilot reduces the climbing angle and the driver , seeing the reduction in load , applies more power .
16 For example , if the glider is too low to land conventionally in the normal landing area directly into the wind , it may well be possible to land across wind and behind the normal launching point , so that the low turn can be completed safely .
17 Then they may fail to make any choice of field or plan of action until it is too late .
18 Be careful that you do not continue to reject fields at the same time as getting lower and lower until it is too late either to have any selection or to achieve a good approach .
19 If the angle is too steep , and you arrive too close , it will mean having a very short base leg and no time for adjustments by moving in or out and using the airbrakes .
20 The instructor should encourage the pilot to talk through his thoughts aloud to find out whether not using the airbrakes is caused by failing to realise the glider is too high or by not being quick enough to decide and act .
21 It is surprisingly difficult to recognise an overshooting situation until often it is too late to get down without sideslipping and using full airbrake .
22 Think I must be blushing , and maybe she is too or is it her English rose complexion kissed , fuck , there I go , kissed ( I should be so lucky ! ) by sudden Mediterranean sunshine ?
23 Some people would argue that the bout is too short to require any form of aerobic training .
24 If it is too high , you will be driven off balance
25 If your kick is such that you can pull it back and reassume your original stance , it is too weak to score .
26 If the front guard hand is too far forward , then you can grab and pull at it .
27 Maybe the place is too narrow , that we all want to leave it . ’
28 He knows the routine , he appreciates the need , if without relishing it , he is too much the practised professional to show more than the briefest irritation .
29 The rabbis had a saying : ‘ Where there is too much , there is something missing . ’
30 ‘ Only three saucepans and the frying pan is too thin for stir-fry .
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