Example sentences of "[vb -s] too [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Muslims and Jews want to get rid of it for religious reasons ; Americans want ( wanted ? ) to get rid of it for hygienic reasons and for the hypothetical reduced risk of penile cancer in the circumcised population ; Latins love to play with it , like to keep it , and are taught to mobilise it often ; the British would like to ignore it , not to touch it , and eventually get rid of it when it causes too much trouble . |
| 32 | Or , as he would put it , material causes too crude and not ultimately explanatory , mental causes more refined . ’ |
| 33 | Waterfall clutters too much . |
| 34 | If the hotel accepts too many block bookings that could possibly result in the loss of other reservations from clients who may return to the hotel on regular basis . |
| 35 | ‘ No , but it finishes too late . |
| 36 | He knows it chiefly as a source of seasonal traffic jams about which Marjorie sometimes complains ( the University day begins too late and finishes too early to inconvenience Vic himself ) and of distractingly pretty girls about whose safety he worries , seeing them walking to and fro between their halls of residence and the Students ' Union in the evenings . |
| 37 | A horse that is underfed is likely to be dull and lethargic ; whereas an overfed horse which has too little exercise , especially if it is fed grain , is likely to be over-excited and silly . |
| 38 | Worse still , Europe may be losing out because it has too little high-technology manufacturing . |
| 39 | He argues that cricket has too little regard for these moments , and wishes baseball 's practice of measuring and recording big hits was adopted . |
| 40 | The only exception has been the rear access door that covers the Parallel and Serial Ports , which has too little clearance between it and any modern parallel printer plug . |
| 41 | However , if a cell has too much cholesterol , it can be removed by an HDL particle colliding with the cell and picking up the cholesterol that is excess to requirements . |
| 42 | Moreover , if the retailer has too much stock of perishable goods , items may deteriorate or pass their ‘ sell by ’ date before they are sold . |
| 43 | ‘ Every professional man knows , ( at least he ought to know ) that … a scene with the sun immediately behind him wants air , a quality generally considered as absolutely necessary … on the other hand if the sun is within his vision , it probably has too much . |
| 44 | Teacher : Siobham , I think that glass has too much water in it . |
| 45 | You have to accept the fact that she will not be feeling she has too much to be grateful about , when she ruminates on the loss of her home and some of her previous complete independence . |
| 46 | Here Flora has too much to content with ; but she does succeed in getting Percy , her father-in-law — one of those rich , plebeian businessmen this author toes so well — to marry his mistress , Barbara . |
| 47 | Do n't you find ‘ some place ’ has too much of an American flavour ? ’ |
| 48 | Language has too much inherent ambiguity to enable solely bottom-up processing . |
| 49 | He was at great pains to comment that ‘ to say that John Bunch ( Locomotive Superintendent ) has too much power is a travesty ’ . |
| 50 | New York 's city government has too much on its plate , too big a budget , too many employees , too powerful labour unions — and too few politicians with the guts to do anything about it |
| 51 | Border has too much basic honesty to plan his responses in these situations . |
| 52 | His reputation was such , however , that a photographer from the New York Times arrived and another member of the audience was so overwhelmed by the occasion that she described Eliot 's face as " that of an archangel who has too much work to do , and so does only half of it leaving the rest to the North Wind " . |
| 53 | ‘ The child has too much imagination , ’ she thought . |
| 54 | She has too much integrity , she 's too scrupulous , to have any happiness with a married man . |
| 55 | She has too much ambition . |
| 56 | Now British Coal is getting rid of miners and private enterprise has too much manpower , so it is lowering wages . |
| 57 | If a person already has too much to do , adding another task will cause stress to that person , as well as to you , the manager , when the task is n't carried out . |
| 58 | It is quite clear , sir , that on the existing allocations , thirteen years to go , that the figure of nine thousand seven hundred dwellings , if you want to stick by that figure , my view it should be lower because it has too much an assumption for migration in a constrained area , if you want to stick by that figure , the nine thousand seven hundred will be reached without a new settlement , of that I have no doubt whatsoever . |
| 59 | Whether I am police or not , he has too much to lose . |
| 60 | and on Joe 's visit to London he realises that he is not really appreciated and leaves as he has too much dignity . |