Example sentences of "all too [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was all too sanitised to instill understanding . |
| 2 | We were all too shocked to say anything more than ‘ Poor old Froggy ’ and ‘ Who on earth could have done it ? ’ |
| 3 | Claire 's father Robert said : ‘ We are all too upset to talk . |
| 4 | When survey data are coded and punched for analysis by computer it is all too easy to ask the computer to carry out a range of cross-tabulations of one factor by another . |
| 5 | To dwell on the potential of socialist realism as a revolutionary literary theory is an instructive experience since it is all too easy to dismiss it out of hand as a crude and dogmatic Stalinist aberration . |
| 6 | In fact , it is all too easy to conclude that if one 's message is misunderstood , the receiver is at fault ; and if the other person 's attempt to communicate is not understood , then the other person 's mode of expression is deficient in some way . |
| 7 | It is all too easy to do this , especially if we know no other ways of praying than our own . |
| 8 | The trouble which a political interest could encounter , however , came when friends of the political interest fell out over a choice of minister , and in a country which took its religion seriously that was all too easy to do , and that in turn opened the road to intrigue by political enemies . |
| 9 | A word of caution should be given here : it is all too easy to talk about such things as ‘ Australian English ’ , and ignore the great variety that inevitably exists within such a large community of speakers . |
| 10 | The first of these revelations which elucidate nothing is introduced as ‘ completely unthinkable but from another point of view and in one respect all too easy to envisage ’ . |
| 11 | When workers ' minds are focused on children 's emotional well-being it is all too easy to overlook the basics of good child care . |
| 12 | It is all too easy to overlook how the offeror will manage the target after the acquisition . |
| 13 | Problems of taste can also arise on the selection of music backgrounds for scenes of domestic life because the mood to be reinforced is more personal and it is all too easy to lapse into embarrassing banality . |
| 14 | However , it is all too easy to overfeed and pollute the water and kill the babies that way . |
| 15 | It is all too easy to create a generous image in a country where nothing exists . |
| 16 | It was all too easy to visualise a cylindrical metal casing concealed inside that innocent-looking exterior . |
| 17 | It is all too easy to put off thinking about network security when dozens of other concerns are jostling for your attention . |
| 18 | For many people it is all too easy to put on weight , and for the vast majority the problem is caused by a simple energy imbalance — too much food is consumed and too little energy expended by exercise or work . |
| 19 | It is all too easy to ignore PC maintenance until something goes wrong . |
| 20 | There 's always the pressure of playing , of course , and the dangers of being on the road and playing the songs night after night — it 's all too easy to fall into some kind of rut . |
| 21 | It is all too easy to fall into the stereotypical trap , on the one hand , of assuming the continuance of traditional patterns and , on the other , of predicting their total breakdown ! |
| 22 | It is all too easy to fall into the trap of wandering on , following the whim of the moment , chopping and changing from sombre meditations to joyous paeans . |
| 23 | And again she found herself thinking that maybe Jeff had been right and Guido was simply an insufferable bully , the type of man it would be all too easy to fall out with . |
| 24 | It then falls away steeply across the limited war band to its low point between the guerrilla war and terrorism bands , where the frequency of such wars in the post-war period has demonstrated the greatest weakness in military deterrence — ‘ Davids ’ have found it all too easy to defy ‘ Goliaths ’ in these bands as the French and American defeats in Vietnam have shown so vividly . |
| 25 | It is all too easy to carry out this procedure in a vacuum and to forget that this is part of a parent training process which , we hope , will equip them with skills they can use with other problems . |
| 26 | In reality it 's all too easy to carry on and hope it will go away . |
| 27 | Having said all this , there were still those who wondered if it was not all too easy to confuse the eternal with the transitory . |
| 28 | Because the pictures are two-dimensional , it is all too easy to confuse the eye with an unsuitable choice of background . |
| 29 | It is all too easy to counterpose ‘ need ’ versus ‘ profit ’ as the criterion for production — in fact it is just the mirror-image of the apologetic proposition that production for profit is essentially the same thing as production for need . |
| 30 | If we place too much weight on direct financial controls it is all too easy to miss other less visible ways in which the Japanese state has systematically supported the position of large companies . |