Example sentences of "too [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should one consequently resist too vigorously the wicked thought that active citizenship in modern Britain will be a status conferred on those who actually pay their poll tax ? |
| 2 | How do we do that without spreading too widely the ability to make bombs ? |
| 3 | These should still be kept at a regular time , because if you vary the routine too widely the dog is likely to become restless . |
| 4 | And within six years , wanting to register ( in The Criter - ion for 1934 ) the distinction of Binyon 's version of the Inferno despite its consistent inversions of prosaic word order , Pound found himself in the same situation , having to contend with those who had learned too well or too inflexibly the lessons he himself had taught them : |
| 5 | And he caught his hero too since a man is ( among a million other things — but art concentrates attention ) the yellows he sees and tastes , and the evil rancid oil he smells . |
| 6 | Actually he didn he did n't kick too badly the other day . |
| 7 | So although I sat tight as the communicants went forward I was not too conspicuously a Protestant . |
| 8 | Benn is too much a product of his comfortable and intensely high-minded background to be able to understand why the common man ( let alone the common politician ) has more vulgar aspirations than plain living and high thinking . |
| 9 | Beth Wilson disagrees , ‘ I think women often have an ideal of the perfect man , and if he scores nine out of 10 , then it 's far too much a temptation not to want to try to change that last little bit . ’ |
| 10 | An iconoclast such as Anderson could never have settled into directing films about mummies , werewolves and vampires , and Hammer was too much a market-led company to encourage fresh approaches to the monstrous . |
| 11 | He was too much a man of his tradition to resent it , to take flight . |
| 12 | Yet Modigliani was too much a part of the life of Montparnasse , too involved with the individuals leading the ‘ new art ’ , to remain completely aloof . |
| 13 | We are too much a prey to the belief that if one kind of education is good , another must be bad , or at least worse than the good . |
| 14 | In a way Mark was too close to home , too much a part of the world whose foundations had just been rocked , yet somehow on the outside . |
| 15 | It was too much a paradigm of what the sport had become to be forgotten . |
| 16 | It is arguable that differences in attitude between worker and management — ‘ us and them ’ — are inevitable while there are groups of people who carry those labels ; the great divide is too much a fact of organisational life , part of the fabric of ‘ norms , that each new recruit is taught . |
| 17 | They were the same type — the off-the-peg evil mastermind — but Kruger was too much a part of this screwy Dream to host a real mind . |
| 18 | Cuvier 's counterpart in Britain was a much more prosaic son of the Industrial Revolution — William Smith — whose conclusions were basically very similar but who was far too much a practical man to want to theorise about it . |
| 19 | He was too much a professional to skimp such a vital part of the conference , no matter how pressing his personal motives might be . |
| 20 | ‘ Madam , I see that — after all — I have not been too much a sinner . |
| 21 | She was too much a part of him . |
| 22 | Her fears were too much a part of him — like some disease in the marrow of his bones . |
| 23 | Churchill , while being ‘ too much a man ’ to kick the PM on the ground , had agreed to send a letter to Downing Street demanding to know by midday on Sunday the exact position he could expect to hold in the government . |
| 24 | She had said he was too much a man of circumstances , that when the circumstances changed , he changed . |
| 25 | When I think of him sighing in the lane on the other side of the Park he seems far too close to home , far too much a part of all the difficult things in life . |
| 26 | ‘ Could it be that crime has become too easy , that violence has become too much a theme of television and videos , that respect for other people has gone too much out of fashion and too many young people see no stake for themselves in this society and see more of a future in crime and the black economy ? ’ he asked . |
| 27 | He knows the routine , he appreciates the need , if without relishing it , he is too much the practised professional to show more than the briefest irritation . |
| 28 | Some years later he and Dudek parted company ; the former being too much the evangelist-propagandist for the ‘ pure ’ scholar . |
| 29 | Is it too much the fief of the Leader ? ’ |
| 30 | Tech-Green and Naturotech were both phenomena that evolved from that changing consciousness , but I felt that science was still too much the province of logic and order . |