Example sentences of "[conj] too [adj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We laugh about it now , but it is sobering to think that thousands of men , either too old or too young for the Services , should have gone quite voluntarily , many nights a week , to drill and to manoeuvre , seriously believing that they might have to encounter an invading army . |
| 2 | Too late for the Bride and too late for the Bachelors . |
| 3 | I 'm too old and too big for the things I like , and the others terrify me ! ’ |
| 4 | But to the Victorians he was a controversial figure , too independent and too sympathetic towards the Indians and Inuit to be acceptable . |
| 5 | He had constantly called for reductions in the burdens of taxation on both corporations and individuals and regularly denounced the federal government for being too big , too meddlesome and too wasteful of the taxpayers ' money . |
| 6 | The hexagram represents a beam that is thick and heavy in the middle but too weak at the ends . |
| 7 | Not bad value but too rough around the edges . |
| 8 | Rule 5 – 43 provides that a firm must not make a personal recommendation to a private customer to deal , or arrange a deal in the exercise of discretion for any customer , if the dealing would reasonably be regarded as too frequent in the circumstances . |
| 9 | Already one of the four leading underwriters in 1744 , they were to be one of the two houses that arranged the ‘ closed subscription ’ loans to the government in the difficult winters of 1745–6 and 1757 — loans subsequently attacked by Sir John Barnard [ q.v. ] as too favourable to the promoters . |
| 10 | Prince Albert , who did much to promote a concern for working-class housing , not least by dying himself from typhoid , gave his name to a model building for four families which , although again intended for artisans , had been rejected as too ambitious by the organizers of the Great Exhibition ( Fig. 37 ) . |