Example sentences of "have too [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Worse still , Europe may be losing out because it has too little high-technology manufacturing .
3 He argues that cricket has too little regard for these moments , and wishes baseball 's practice of measuring and recording big hits was adopted .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 Moreover , if the retailer has too much stock of perishable goods , items may deteriorate or pass their ‘ sell by ’ date before they are sold .
7 ‘ 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 .
8 Teacher : Siobham , I think that glass has too much water in it .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 Do n't you find ‘ some place ’ has too much of an American flavour ? ’
12 Language has too much inherent ambiguity to enable solely bottom-up processing .
13 He was at great pains to comment that ‘ to say that John Bunch ( Locomotive Superintendent ) has too much power is a travesty ’ .
14 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
15 Border has too much basic honesty to plan his responses in these situations .
16 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 " .
17 ‘ The child has too much imagination , ’ she thought .
18 She has too much integrity , she 's too scrupulous , to have any happiness with a married man .
19 She has too much ambition .
20 Now British Coal is getting rid of miners and private enterprise has too much manpower , so it is lowering wages .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 Whether I am police or not , he has too much to lose .
24 and on Joe 's visit to London he realises that he is not really appreciated and leaves as he has too much dignity .
25 As my hon. Friend the Member for Battersea ( Mr. Bowis ) has pointed out , my constituency abuts on London , and such a proposal would cause great dismay to my constituents , who already believe that London has too good a deal .
26 Unfortunately for IBM , its problems are not simply that it has too many staff .
27 But the law has too many loopholes to reassure nervous investors .
28 The World Bank has too many people costing too much and working in the wrong place .
29 However , this approach has too many problems to be appealing .
30 ‘ No , she has too many other people to visit . ’
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