Example sentences of "have been too [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the GR-1 's predecessor , the GR-50 , may have been too complex an answer to the guitar synth dilemma , being notoriously awkward to program and none too performance-friendly into the bargain . |
| 2 | Over-awed , converted both by her persuasion and her gold , Boult remains in prose ( any change would have been too great a transformation ) , yet agrees to help her . |
| 3 | " Well , no , he did n't actually , that would have been too good a story . |
| 4 | Had the plaintiff been shot , then this would have been too remote a consequence and causation not established . |
| 5 | For me , suicide would have been too active an act . |
| 6 | Of course , she missed her family , but her father 's promotion to foreign correspondent had been too good a chance for him to miss . |
| 7 | True , he had struggled at first to satisfy his beautiful young bride ; he had been too long a bachelor and too set in his ways . |
| 8 | She had been too long the creature of thought , and now she had seen . |
| 9 | After Hugh 's dismissal in 1172 Louis VII kept the office vacant for some years : Hugh had been too great a man for it to be wise or safe to raise up a successor to him . |
| 10 | Perhaps that had been too personal a remark . |
| 11 | But some say it 's been too high a price to pay . |