Example sentences of "too strong [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps conspiracy is too strong a word . |
| 2 | ‘ Totalitarianism ’ is not too strong a word . |
| 3 | The heart of the government 's economic difficulty is sterling , and the credibility of Mr Major 's indications ( if that is not too strong a word ) that he will defend it . |
| 4 | ‘ Oh come now , that 's far too strong a word , surely . |
| 5 | The possible objections to this analysis , if that is not too strong a word , are many . |
| 6 | NoS had not been hijacked — that was too strong a word . |
| 7 | He has many geniuses — that 's not too strong a word to use . |
| 8 | I imagine that Eliot 's early admiration , if that was not too strong a word , was due to Berdyaev 's excellent little book on the Russian Revolution ; a movement of which four years ' personal experience was enough to dispel early hopes . |
| 9 | The parentheses gave her a sense of not existing , un-being perhaps was not too strong a word . |
| 10 | I did , but possibly too strong a word , but certainly I think erm , I think the struggle in the last couple of years with regard to the parish council , has been to , to actually introduce it to people 's perception as of anything but importance . |
| 11 | There were two strands to the government 's strategy , although " strategy " is probably too strong a word for a policy which evolved opportunistically . |
| 12 | ‘ I think raid is too strong a word , ’ he said . |
| 13 | Obviously too strong a flurry of angelic wings , too ready recourse to miracles or to Omnipotence , would instantly diminish the stature of the characters , devalue their decisions and their courage . |
| 14 | FIGURE 1 I nearly always start drawing the ‘ bones ’ of the picture with a small brush dipped in a light cerulean or cobalt blue — ultramarine is too strong a colour , and I roughly mark out windows , table , plant etc |
| 15 | Sometimes in the evenings she had too strong a sense of being locked into the life of the farmhouse , even with the door continuously open on the summer yard , her brother away in the fields , her mother stumbling about the place with buckets , leaning on the table or the back of a chair whenever she stood to talk . |
| 16 | I know how you feel , Daddy , but maybe it is better not to take too strong a stand . |
| 17 | It is difficult to resist the implication that our penal system is morally unjustifiable — morally bankrupt might not be too strong a phrase . |
| 18 | If pastrami is too strong a flavour for your taste , then use roast beef or ham instead . |
| 19 | It tends to happen if too high a potency ( that is , too strong a potency ) is given , and the symptoms are brought out or exteriorized rather too quickly for the body to handle comfortably . |
| 20 | Too strong a foam and there can be difficulty in rinsing . |
| 21 | ‘ Deltic Mania ’ is not too strong a label to attach to the last full year of the locomotive flagships of the East Coast main line . |
| 22 | I do n't know why a 5ml stock bottle does n't create too strong a medicine , perhaps my patients are too ‘ healthy ’ ( ! ) , |
| 23 | To try and take it in was like drinking too strong a wine . |
| 24 | But it would be unwise to draw too strong a line between Ediacaran and Cambrian faunas . |
| 25 | If , in addition , I were accompanied by his fifteen soldiers I believed we should be too strong a party to invite attack , while not so strong as to alarm and provoke the tribes . |
| 26 | ‘ Again , that is too strong an expression . |