Example sentences of "too great " in BNC.
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| 1 | The increase was even felt to be too great : in 1964 , when British groups reached 212 , it was decided to slow down the growth in the UK — not to ‘ act upon the ephemeral enthusiasms of an odd individual ’ , but to go for quality . |
| 2 | Oh no — never — the bribe was far too great to refuse — they ran a cordon round the Green and delivered over their own folk to the men-of-war . |
| 3 | It would not be too great a distortion of the facts to say that the main thrust of twentieth century sensory physiology has been to move the application of the doctrine of specific energies inwards from the sensory ending towards and into the cortex . |
| 4 | Many reckon the enormous cost , estimated to be as much as £10 billion , is too great for most of the players in the current economic climate . |
| 5 | The Government is believed to be reluctant to push rates any higher , but City analysts predicted it would act if pressure on sterling became too great to hold with intervention alone . |
| 6 | UP UNTIL Mind Bomb it was easy to see why Matt Johnson had never toured The The during its 10-year life span : the group was never more than a shifting collection of session players and ‘ guests ’ , songs so devoted to doom and gloom limited audiences to Exit members , the lunacy of the extended format Infected video implied visions far beyond the confines of the stage , and an inflated sense of his own worth would have made the risk of failure too great . |
| 7 | The volume passing grows too great to be sorted properly . |
| 8 | ‘ Maybe it 's like diving , and the degree of difficulty is too great for them to pass it forward . ’ |
| 9 | If the 1957 explanation was false , the theory runs , then the subsequent loss of face would have been too great for a correction to be issued in Gromyko 's lifetime . |
| 10 | Their shared tiredness was too great ; they could not replace the goodwill of the morning . |
| 11 | The tensions involved in trying to make that quasi-federal arrangement work proved too great for Obote . |
| 12 | While projects of this kind can be very impressive they can not hope to generate an increase in output from the mass of small scale farmers , as their requirement for scarce , high level management is too great . |
| 13 | Her interest was too great . |
| 14 | The problem seems to be in part that the sheer imaginative effort of thinking about totally different systems on the basis of very sketchy information is too great . |
| 15 | The threat to internal security , the judicial system , police and even its democracy is just too great , ’ argues a US narcotics official . |
| 16 | The fact remains that the ‘ democratic deficit ’ in European Community affairs is already too great and is set to grow unless some very radical changes are made to the way the EC institutions operate . |
| 17 | The temption was too great to resist . |
| 18 | Mr Abalkin rejected this also , saying that the distortions in the economy are too great to allow it to work properly . |
| 19 | Over the doorway of a fine Georgian house called Knockhill in Scotland , there is the following line carved in stone : ‘ Too Small for Envy , for Contempt too Great ’ . |
| 20 | Both came near success , but , in the end , were defeated by those in the US Administration , who believed fervently in the preservation of the American monopoly , and who considered that sharing with Britain constituted too great a risk to American security . |
| 21 | Cheap currants , especially if they are used in too great a proportion to other fruits , are bitter and can ruin a cake . |
| 22 | Soon America was clamouring for the dollar to be let in : its burden of debt to oil-rich countries , which since the late 1990s had refused payment in dollars , had become too great . |
| 23 | Last year Mr Gorbachev rejected a package of radical economic reforms in favour of quarter-measures , fearful that the centre would have to forfeit too much power and that social costs — higher prices , steeply rising unemployment — would be too great . |
| 24 | It may be that the gap between Mr Yeltsin 's policies and Mr Gorbachev 's is too great . |
| 25 | From the other flank , Michael Foot thought plans for reform gave too great a power of patronage to the prime minister and mocked the very idea of a representative democracy . |
| 26 | This , then , is the first stage of reacting to loss : denial — shock that something bad has happened — is our psyche 's way of defending us from experiencing too great a sense of harm too quickly . |
| 27 | It is often said in such circumstances that the shock of the news has been too great . |
| 28 | It was as well that I was unable to visit the Aran Isles , for if they had changed since the 1930s my disappointment might have been too great to bear . |
| 29 | However , all policemen belonged to lineages , and consequently the police force could not really handle those events ( such as the Ajdabiya elections ) which resulted in massive mobilization of populations : not because the numbers were too great , but because the police force did not contain enough men uninvolved on either side . |
| 30 | Ministers ' remuneration had improved with the century : in 1851 a Primitive Methodist minister with three children received £71 a year and Baptists generally received less than £80 ; within Congregationalism the divergence was too great to allow for any average figure . |