Example sentences of "that he have been too [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tentative diagnosis was that he had been too close to Daine 's fantasies and been subsumed into the structure of the Dream . |
| 2 | Vernon Tomes was on May 12 dismissed as Deputy Bailiff — Jersey 's second most senior judge — on the grounds that he had been too slow in delivering legal judgments . |
| 3 | Yes , here was Hatton 's entry that he had been too ill to start the return journey until noon . |
| 4 | Philip is ironic also about his tendency to think in terms of ‘ higher ’ literature , and he discredits the validity of a quotation from Eliot , when it comes into his mind , simply on the grounds that he has been too corrupted by contemporary culture for anything that occurs to him spontaneously to have lasting value : |
| 5 | Hussey denies the charge that he has been too much of a ‘ hands-on ’ chairman . |