Example sentences of "[prep] too much " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Were these real tears , or was he just squeezing them out after too much cognac ? |
| 2 | Put it down to exhaustion after too much cricket ! |
| 3 | Cynical and astringent too , which she found satisfying after too much flattery . |
| 4 | As a general rule , Dobermanns usually have good appetites and , therefore , it is not uncommon for them to get fat — a combination of too much food and too little exercise is not good for this breed ! |
| 5 | However , tension arose between the need for decentralization in order to ensure more technical efficiency and political fears of too much independence . |
| 6 | In 1921 , for example , we find the police warning against setting up a ‘ continental system of domestic espionage ’ in Britain ( p. 6 ) Even SIS , which had designs on MI5 in 1945 , shied away from the latter 's counter-subversive functions , so as not to be ‘ associated with the idea of an internal Gestapo , ( p. 177 ) No wonder governments are nervous of too much openness in this area . |
| 7 | Commercial taramasalata is often spoiled by the addition of too much bread or too much oil . |
| 8 | In the past , whenever he has erred on the side of too much order , the judgment inside the Soviet Union and outside has been that ‘ Gorbachev is as good as we 'll get ’ . |
| 9 | It was a case of too much and too active , driving him to roam . |
| 10 | ‘ One should not play on words , ’ he said , ‘ We hold positions of too much responsibility . ’ |
| 11 | There are signs of growth , but in case there is a danger of too much optimism , let me remind the reader that as recently as 1978 the Department of Education and Science published a document entitled Primary Education in England in which drama was not mentioned . |
| 12 | Beliefs which had become established almost as folk-law , such as the universally harmful effects of too much salt , had less support than might have been expected . |
| 13 | Cirrhosis of the liver was recognized in the eighteenth century as a consequence of too much drinking . |
| 14 | ‘ Conservatives have a strong localist tradition , but the danger of too much localism is that the Party 's voice and through the Party the political interpretation of the Government 's voice is not heard . ’ |
| 15 | Maidstone was almost certainly all right , just sleeping off the effects of too much drink . |
| 16 | Even then it is best to err on the side of too much reinforcement rather than too much punishment . |
| 17 | ‘ That 's Runner Rowles , ’ he grinned nodding towards the man , ‘ a living example , if you call it that , of what a lifetime of too much cider and not enough grub can do to a man ! ’ |
| 18 | Clarke would do us all a big service if , in his next book , he could produce a law that sorts out the predictions that are too spineless from those that assume the human race to be capable of too much , |
| 19 | The effects of too much alcohol are not limited to the person who drinks . |
| 20 | the danger to health of too much alcohol — and how much is too much |
| 21 | On the other hand , the allowance of too much time will lead to stagnation , lack of enthusiasm and the job 's being put on the ‘ back burner ’ when more important assignments arrive . |
| 22 | The alleged vision had spoiled the banquet , depressed the King for weeks afterwards , before his natural good humour and boisterous spirits dismissed it as a phantasm of too much drink . |
| 23 | The objective is , of course , to reduce the number of road accidents caused by the effect of too much alcohol on the nervous system . |
| 24 | Unfortunately even today , when people are more aware of the dangers of too much alcohol , it is often socially unacceptable to seem to refuse the convivial offer of a drink . |
| 25 | There is a need for daily or weekly watering of pot plants and the effect of too much or too little water is soon evident . |
| 26 | When at last it was over she lay back in a sleepy state , as a result of too much gin rather than weakness from the birthing , but she no longer felt like cursing James . |
| 27 | It hath been the wisdom of the church of England , ever since the first compiling of her Publick Liturgy , to keep the mean between two extremes , of too much stiffness in refusing , and of too much easiness in admitting any variation from it … |
| 28 | It hath been the wisdom of the church of England , ever since the first compiling of her Publick Liturgy , to keep the mean between two extremes , of too much stiffness in refusing , and of too much easiness in admitting any variation from it … |
| 29 | Regarding themselves as kingmakers , Godwine and his sons strove repeatedly to maintain an ‘ English ’ identity , free both of too much Danish interruption and of the new factor in political life , the influence of the Duchy of Normandy . |
| 30 | To assert that both litigiousness and inappropriate institutions were the causes of perjury was tautological , for the tendency towards litigation was explained by the inappropriate institutions , and the inappropriateness of the institutions by the fact of too much litigation . |