Example sentences of "have been [adv] [det] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the very limited amount of competition and market liberalisation proposed in the Electricity and Gas Directives has been too much for the German ( highly inefficient ) coal-mining interests to swallow . |
| 2 | It is hard to believe they would have been too much for the North Atlantic alliance . |
| 3 | The waiting outside in the wind and the snow had been too much for a majority of the newsmen who had shown up originally . |
| 4 | That was how she 'd done it — she 'd touched them with her warm love and it had been too much for the Worm 's heart of hatred . |
| 5 | In the past the temptation to gallop across the hallowed Cowdray turf , which so many of them were not going to have the chance to play on , had been too much for the teams . |