Example sentences of "[v-ing] too [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , Corder , though sounding a note of caution about adopting too restrictive a model of description , expresses the view that pedagogy draws selectively from descriptions of language provided by linguistics . |
| 2 | Moreover , by adopting too clinical a scientific strategy , the spiritually enriching value in having an ecologically healthy and varied countryside for people with only a modicum of scientific knowledge , have been overlooked . |
| 3 | Beware of matching too many colours together — if you have chosen a fairly strong coloured mount then it may be easier to have a plain white or cream silk as the background , or you could use a plain mount card in a neutral shade like cream , behind the coloured mount of your choice . |
| 4 | Very quietly and not pressing too much on details at first , getting him talking . |
| 5 | Without pressing too many keys . |
| 6 | Ah that 's because you 've pressed that no , you 're pressing too quick ! |
| 7 | He starts ’ tailgating ’ the motorist in front or driving too close . |
| 8 | I suspect that vehicles were driving too close . |
| 9 | It 's called tail-gating — driving too close . |
| 10 | The campaign was launched because studies have revealed that 60pc of accidents causing injuries involve a combination of driving too close and misjudging speed and distance . |
| 11 | Driving too close on motorways . |
| 12 | Sue Baker , Observer motoring correspondent , has a theory : ‘ So often , when driving on a motorway , you see strings of cars in the outside lane , driving too fast and too close , the drivers trying to intimidate one another . |
| 13 | Motorway police chief Inspector David Haikings said : ‘ It was six degrees Centigrade below and drivers were driving too fast and too near to each other . |
| 14 | Yeah he 's ve well funnily he 's er sit sitting over there I told him off when we came in he was driving too fast . |
| 15 | Save them walking too far up the road if they |
| 16 | They might have been frightened , or offended , but they were laughing too much . |
| 17 | But Henry noticed how thin I was , and that I was laughing too much and could not sit still . |
| 18 | TWO BROAD-MINDED YOUNG GIRLS with unfortunate habit of laughing too much , forced to wear thermal scoober suits under their clothing because of the weather , buried in a boarding-school in the Midlands , but actually enjoying it ! |
| 19 | I was still laughing too much from from some comment that the Government did one one of their four promises was to was to put pri public transport before private roads . |
| 20 | Perhaps an increase in friction in the system is absorbing too much energy . |
| 21 | He had to sell Ebberston in 1848 , thanks to keeping too many racehorses and losing too many bets on them , and he died in London in 1866 , cared for in his last years by a kind and well-endowed lady friend called Elizabeth William . |
| 22 | Willie is not one for keeping too many records , but one thing he 'll always remember is the remarkable coincidence of his three Open Championship victories . |
| 23 | One of the problems we 've had of late is the wine keeping too much tannin as it matures . |
| 24 | S so it 's , it 's , it 's either that the cadres are being rightist , they are protecting the landlords so they are keeping too much , or the problem is that the cadres , what we looked at earlier , the cadres are getting in themselves and they are taking too much for themselves . |
| 25 | So it is necessary to change panel membership to stop conditioning from becoming too strong and this can add greatly to the cost of operating the panel . |
| 26 | The sixteen giant stainless steel tanks in which this waste is kept have to be constantly agitated and cooled to stop the liquid either precipitating or becoming too hot . |
| 27 | But it 's also fears that the Party itself is becoming too radical too , they always want to control two elements and I mean on the last page , point number sixteen it says that how that erm tt that how that the Communist Party members ought to refrain from securing undue benefits by taking advantage of their leading position . |
| 28 | Perhaps I am becoming too gullible in my old age . |
| 29 | Women seem fearful of becoming too friendly with a single mother ; fearful that if they spend too much time with her , they might just get a taste for something that is denied them . |
| 30 | Some think the agencies ' analysts risk becoming too friendly with the companies they rate . |