Example sentences of "[was/were] too [adj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The remarks were supposed to be private , but they were too juicy for the journalists to keep to themselves . |
| 3 | The rooms were too chilly for the youngsters , so we left with mother-in-law . |
| 4 | The puff sleeves were too tight under the armpits , pinched your flesh . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Perhaps this was too sinister for the judges ' tastes ? |
| 9 | She was too well-trained in the proprieties to smile a recognition at Aunt Tossie ; and Aunt Tossie did not remember her . |
| 10 | He also expected support from Russia , but the tsar was too preoccupied with the affairs of Europe , where Napoleon was at the height of his powers , and Adam Czartoryski , the Russian foreign minister , advised negotiations with the Turks , rather than war . |
| 11 | The obvious interpretation was that Eric was going to set fire to some dogs , but I was too wise in the ways of the Factory to treat that as definite ; I suspected there was more |
| 12 | Maybe one of the lorries had a hole in it — nothing , it seemed , was too bizarre for the purposes of sound arithmetic . |
| 13 | I was too old for the children 's ward so I was in with men . |
| 14 | Yet I remembered a pale-green crepe dress with rosebuds on it that was too tight under the arms and prickly round the neck , and a navy-blue sailor suit with a white collar that chafed . |
| 15 | Spring was too yellow for the purposes of painting , and he agreed with Wordsworth that the greens of summer were monotonous . |
| 16 | The demise of the Civil Service Department may have been due to a feeling by ministers that it was too conscious of the interests of staff . |
| 17 | It 's been suggested that the crowd was too large for the organisers to handle , and at today 's police authority meeeting Gloucestershire 's Chief Constable announced a review into how the event was run . |
| 18 | They may actually have to take risks : all the fault of Mrs Thatcher , but not because she was too interested in the entrepreneurs ; quite the contrary , because she over-egged the pudding for the house-owning classes . |