Example sentences of "too [adj] [art] burden " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this is your motive it is important to recognize it , and to make sure that does not impose too great a burden on the person cared for as well as on yourself . |
| 2 | In fact , the effect of many past lives upon the child 's mind may already be too great a burden for him or her to have ever possessed much capacity for direct mental perception . |
| 3 | It 's been too much for him , too great a burden . |
| 4 | In order that too great a burden does not shift from bookseller to rep , Penguin , like Faber , has recruited merchandisers to do much of the checking . |
| 5 | Misfortune was surmounted , and misfortune became too great a burden ; virtuous reputations were earned , and scandalous stories were recounted . |
| 6 | It was thought by some that too great a burden might be placed on principals in smaller firms or on sole practitioners if such a proposal were made mandatory , and that either the ‘ net ’ of suitable signatories should be widened to include assistant solicitors or Fellows of ILEX , or that the category of undertaking to which the ‘ rule ’ might apply should exclude those of a routine or non-financial nature . |
| 7 | This information should enable the investor to decide : ( a ) if the size of the workforce is to be reduced , at what cost , bearing in mind the notice periods , age and length of service of the employees ; ( b ) if the workforce is to be increased , at what cost ; ( c ) whether the existing terms of employment , benefits and so on are appropriate , or too great a burden for the target business ; ( d ) the importance of key individuals and whether any action should be taken to ensure their loyalty or protect the company 's position by , for example , keyman insurance ( particularly important in service industries ) ; and ( e ) action to be taken in respect of any share option arrangements , incentive schemes , or the funding ( or under-funding ) of pension schemes . |
| 8 | It was thought fair to avoid placing too frequent a burden on places like Belfast . |
| 9 | All my life , he wrote , I have been preparing myself for this moment , but if I have prepared myself correctly then it is so that when the moment came I should not be encumbered with the sensation of having waited for it all my life , for such a sensation , wrote Harsnet , is too heavy a burden for anyone to carry . |
| 10 | It would be placing too heavy a burden on an employer to require him to carry out a formal medical investigation and , even if he did , such an investigation would rarely be fruitful because of the transient nature of the employee 's symptoms and complaints . |
| 11 | In particular , the group discussions we held show that at the extremes of poverty and limited awareness , credit can become too heavy a burden for the family budget and even for emotional stability . |
| 12 | The idea that there was a golden age of family obligations in the past was born out of a desire to ensure that increasing numbers of elderly people ( and other dependent groups ) in the population did not become too heavy a burden financially upon the wealthier classes ; hence the anxieties about whether working-class people had an adequate sense of ‘ filial affection ’ , which can be documented from at least the nineteenth century . |
| 13 | But each version of interests theory moves cautiously towards the protection of such economic relations for fear of dampening the growth of these relations by imposing too heavy a burden of liabilities . |
| 14 | This area of law is affected by policy considerations , as the court will not wish to impose too heavy a burden on the defendant or his insurers . |
| 15 | A co-operative may have more difficulty in raising a large initial sum of venture capital and hence be at a greater risk of starting with too big a burden of interest on loan capital ; but , having got started on a sound financial footing , it would be under no special difficulty in doing as well as ordinary firms . |
| 16 | London may just be carrying too big a burden of research and teaching for its population — but the means by which research and education get redistributed , rather than simply shut , remain unclear . |