Example sentences of "[be] too [adj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That way if one of the midfield does do themselves a mischief Rocky will have had some games at least ( I 'd rest Strachan personally to keep him going for the League campaign — which IMO is our best chnace of a European place [ we 're too unlucky in the cups ] ) . |
| 2 | I suspect that these matters will be discussed on a number of occasions in the future , but the Opposition should not be too complacent about the attitudes and voting patterns of those north of the border for ever and a day . |
| 3 | The shepherd ‘ pulls ’ the wool from his ‘ pretty lambs ’ , an experience which I imagine would not be too pleasant for the creatures but to him it is as if the sheep offer their wool with the same eagerness as he offers his gifts . |
| 4 | Talisker may not be too healthy for the likes of us at the moment , I 'm thinking , ’ Ratagan said . |
| 5 | Must be too expensive for the locals , he mused . |
| 6 | The sum involved with a major capital project may be too large for the participants to provide a guarantee . |
| 7 | Or they put a sling round them or made a canvass and two supports on the side of it and the sling to be too hard on the cattle 's sides . |
| 8 | But , as Muz Murray pointed out to Bristol 's Occult Bookshop 's Robert Gilbert who had been attacking other underground papers , it was wrong to be too hard on the others . |
| 9 | He acknowledges that ‘ to make it fly , we have to get the next generation of telephones sorted out ’ and says that the European Telecommunications Standards Institution is working on the standard telephonic layouts , displays and icon conventions needed to ensure that users wo n't be too bewildered by the options offered by their neighbour 's phone . |
| 10 | I 've been criticised in the past for being too close to the players , but when you 're coaching you have to have an empathy , you have to understand their worries and their weaknesses . |
| 11 | In the seventh bar the bottom A ♭ of the chord has , unfortunately , to be omitted , being too low for the bassoons . |
| 12 | The charges against him included that of being too soft on the Tibetans . |
| 13 | Members of the School of Agronomy who have been accused of being too sympathetic with the problems and plight of the campesinos ( peasant farmers ) have been particularly targeted . |
| 14 | Without being too censorious about the effects of presentational considerations on policy , the consequences can be double-edged . |
| 15 | For funerals , the Reverend Bottingley felt , were not a woman 's occasion , they were too hard on the emotions , and on the feet and knees , and he did not like to see women weep in public . |
| 16 | The remarks were supposed to be private , but they were too juicy for the journalists to keep to themselves . |
| 17 | The rooms were too chilly for the youngsters , so we left with mother-in-law . |
| 18 | The puff sleeves were too tight under the armpits , pinched your flesh . |
| 19 | The minor jobbing work such as labels , bills and prospectuses , which every printer undertook , was a valuable — perhaps an essential — part of the scheme , for it filled gaps that were too short for the stages of book production . |
| 20 | Amphetamine produces its effects by causing certain neurons to release more of the neurotransmitter , dopamine — one of the many chemicals used in the brain to transmit signals from one cell to another — suggesting that schizophrenics either produced too much , or were too sensitive to the actions of the transmitter . |
| 21 | One example of an inappropriate context was in rural areas of Wales where some teachers considered that timetables were too unfamiliar to the pupils to provide a fair test of their skills and understanding of the mathematics involved . |
| 22 | The tree has fruited quite well again , though it is too early for the fruits to have taken on their heady aroma . |
| 23 | It is too disgusting for the children to know ; they have not the same respect for their parents when they know that . |
| 24 | A very long aisle is too far for the friends to walk down . |
| 25 | The weather station at Glasgow airport is too far from the homes of many of my constituents and their homes are also several hundred feet above sea level . |
| 26 | The perception of social advantage in general abstention from collective bargaining is too remote from the circumstances of the individual worker for him ever to support through the ballot box a general prohibition on trade unions , let alone to abstain privately from their immediate protection in a world where there is no reason to expect other workers to confer a reciprocal advantage on him by similar abstention . |
| 27 | Let us look at the three processes in more detail — the hopes and the fears invested in the processes and the inherent problems if one process is too predominant over the others . |
| 28 | Yes , it is too bad about the Kuwaitis ; but oil is a commodity and Iraq will have to sell it just as Kuwait did . |
| 29 | Arnside , nestled into the north-east corner of Morecambe Bay , offers an alternative to the overcrowded hills further north , and when the weather is too bad for the tops , there is still plenty of interest here . |
| 30 | Unfortunately the tent bag is too short for the poles . |