Example sentences of "too heavy [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But because exploration costs represent barely a fifth the total North Sea spending of about £10 billion , this may not be considered too heavy a price to pay for an attempt to switch activity towards developing some of the finds already made or maximising the returns from fields already in production . |
| 2 | Too heavy a reliance on a particular firm or industry might lead to lack of balance in research output — fundamental research without an immediate pay-off may be pushed out , and there is also a danger that commercial pressures may begin to dictate the courses on offer . |
| 3 | The United States feels that it is shouldering too heavy a defence burden in Europe , whilst Europe has increasingly become an economic rival of the United States ; Europeans resent their separate defence and economic dependence on the United States , but have been slow to recognize their de facto commitment to an unrealistic and arbitrary divide between economic and strategic policies . |
| 4 | making too heavy a contact with the opponent , either through loss of temper or misjudgement of distance ; and |
| 5 | Although their rooting system did n't interfere with the other crops , the 18in-tall vines cast too heavy a shadow on the plants below . |
| 6 | As is often the case with such surveys , no clear consensus emerged over many of the questions and some apparently contradictory points were made ( ‘ Not enough homework ’ ; ‘ too heavy a coursework load ’ ) but the whole exercise must have yielded useful information for teachers and a welcome awareness among parents that here is an open school much concerned about the quality of experience it offers its students and responsive to the views of all partners in the education service . |
| 7 | I have found that later sowing of grass by this method is very risky and that too heavy a crop of rape smothers the seeds . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ That might be a bit too heavy a load for Buzz , ’ Adam suggested . |
| 15 | Putting too heavy a comedian on one end ruins the balance . |
| 16 | However , too heavy an emphasis on the affective dimensions of care-giving can obscure the sheer physical and emotional labour involved ( as the current rhetoric of ‘ community care ’ indeed does ) . |