Example sentences of "[vb -s] too [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either nature does not contain it or nature contains too much to be conceived any longer as natural . |
| 2 | This startling discovery has supported the idea that cancer develops when a cell contains too much of a perfectly normal cellular protein . |
| 3 | I 'm not very happy about this diet — for one thing , I think it contains too much protein . |
| 4 | If the model contains too many sub-systems/activities , it is likely that there is a mix of resolution levels . |
| 5 | Gas between the galaxies contains too few baryons to account for all the apparent mass but too many to be consistent with the simplest Big Bang models . |
| 6 | Professor James believes that the average British diet is too rich in fat , saturated fat , sugar and salt , contains too few starchy foods , such as cereals and bread , and not enough fruit and vegetables . |
| 7 | ‘ If a sigh is four beats too late , I 'm on the other side of the stage four beats too early and the laugh is dead and I 've lost one of the best moments in the show . ’ |
| 8 | If it develops too fast York may kill the goose that laid the golden egg and no one will want to live there — just as tourists are beginning to avoid Lake Windermere because of its commerciality and crowds of people . |
| 9 | There are still critics , however , who believe that only the more profitable routes will be retained in this system ; that it places too great a reliance upon operators identifying socially important routes , and seeking and obtaining subsidies to maintain them ; and that a piecemeal system will result . |
| 10 | This places too much burden on others . |
| 11 | The UK government 's strategy for reducing carbon emissions has been attacked by environmentalists , who argue that it places too much reliance on voluntary action by industry and the presumed effect of market forces , and that it pays scant attention to the need for research into energy efficiency . |
| 12 | bubble , there 's only one thing wrong with it , I said to my lad many a time I said the trouble is with the world today everybody wants too much money for doing what they have to do , that 's why things are dear |
| 13 | He had a hard race at Newbury , following one the previous week behind Man O Magic at Ascot , but as a six-year-old he looks too young for something as gruelling as the Welsh National — the last six-year-old to win was Miss Gaynus in 1932 . |
| 14 | Looks too hard-up . ’ |
| 15 | Imperceptibly leading away to the right from the right hand cairn is the High Level Route , but if it all looks too daunting simply ascend Pillar by keeping to the ridge ( 1 mile ) . |
| 16 | In short , New York is stuck with a tax base that looks too narrow to support the city 's budget in anything like its present form . |
| 17 | The lettering on the bag looks too garish for the occasion , but at least wo n't get out of the car and find the remnants of her life spilling out into the gutter . |
| 18 | Which is more than can be said for the album sleeve of the new ACR album , which has caused unheard-of dissent at the offices of British Coal who claim that the artwork looks too much for comfort like the British Rail Freight logo and are threatening legal action . |
| 19 | Kleinwort has advised that the buy-out offer looks too cheap , but that in the absence of others shareholders should consider it seriously . |
| 20 | LOOKS TOO GOOD FOR THE PARTY |
| 21 | ‘ I 'd lend you mine but it looks too good on me . ’ |
| 22 | It looks too helpless . " |
| 23 | The total wage rise of 6.25% built into the 1990–91 accord looks too high . |
| 24 | But erm , she just had it combed out , but it looked , she should have had to have it combed because now , I said you would not like it , because it looks too sophisticated and I , I think it do n't look like there 's quite I 'll get it after him . |
| 25 | I do n't touch it cos it looks too painful . |
| 26 | But it feels strange : when you look at it in the bowl , it looks too runny to be fun , but when you touch it , it 's the squelchiest , stickiest sensation ; it turns to spaghetti when you let it drip through your fingers and it 's stodgy enough to make into patterns , swirling in different colours and practising making faces , people , letters and numbers . |
| 27 | In Bill 's script , Elvis comes out of hiding and tries to resurrect his career , only nobody believes he 's really Elvis because he looks too old . |
| 28 | The khedda looks too flimsy to hold a herd of furious , newly rounded-up elephants but that is exactly what it is designed to do . |
| 29 | BLACKADDER GOES FORTH in which Hugh Laurie shouts too much and then I RENOUNCE WAR does conscientious objectors . |
| 30 | For these people use of the steel-jawed leghold trap by commercial trappers is wrong because it causes too much pain , whereas other , ‘ more humane methods ’ of trapping would be permissible because the pain they cause , though real enough , is not excessive . |