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Example sentences of "too [adj] a [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1	Using an excessive amount or too rich a moisturiser on combination skin will congest it and lead to blocked pores and spots .
2	‘ Investors often take too short-term a view of unit trusts ’
3	He says : ‘ Investors often take too short-term a view of unit trusts , so if exit charges encourage longer term holdings it would be in the consumer 's interest . ’
4	But it would be unwise to draw too strong a line between Ediacaran and Cambrian faunas .
5	She demonstrates the limitations of approaching this analysis from too narrow a concern with professions and bureaucracies , a concern which tends to muddle and obscure the immanent logic of these developments .
6	In effect , therefore , we stop acquiring any new skills and this may mean we risk having too narrow a repertoire of skills to equip us adequately for the variety of people-situations we are likely to encounter .
7	‘ It tends to select from too narrow a band of families , which allows inbreeding to reduce the full benefit of improvement programmes . ’
8	The Soviet Union supported the narrow definition of eligibility for consultation and the United States favoured too broad a definition of eligibility .
9	Investigators said the Ty Mawr home in Abergavenny , Gwent , was badly mismanaged , had too broad a mix of residents and had untrained staff .
10	He uses another shabby character , Tigg , to do his scrounging for him , he himself being ‘ of too haughty a stomach to work , to beg , to borrow , or steal ; yet mean enough to be worked or borrowed , begged or stolen for , by any catspaw that would serve his turn ; too insolent to lick the hand that fed him in his need , yet cur enough to bite and tear it in the dark ’ .
11	One also has to take notice of the disadvantages to one 's life of too obsessive a preoccupation with questions of the precise limits of authority .
12	Puffer , for instance , suggests that the restricted family life a psychological career demands is too high a price for women to pay , and urges them , instead , to study ‘ borderline subjects ’ , a ‘ fringe of specialist research ’ , or do consulting , criticism , and reviewing ( Furumoto and Scarsborough 1986 : 41 ) .
13	So had they put too high a sort of level for subsistence ?
14	That is too meagre a ration of choice for a country that spends the equivalent of nearly a full day out of every week of its life in front of the set .
15	Given too free a hand during years when he , like David II earlier , had fallen into English captivity , they resented the disciplines which their returning king was determined to impose on them in the cause of national unification .
16	An overlay of interactive colouring them followed to bring an element of form , though intentionally avoiding too detailed a degree of modelling .
17	I I if it can be done in the greenbelt policy it must be done in E two and there can be no argument that it is not too detailed a matter in greenbelt policy but too detailed a matter in E two .
18	I I if it can be done in the greenbelt policy it must be done in E two and there can be no argument that it is not too detailed a matter in greenbelt policy but too detailed a matter in E two .
19	Similarly , Corder , though sounding a note of caution about adopting too restrictive a model of description , expresses the view that pedagogy draws selectively from descriptions of language provided by linguistics .
20	Again you , you never felt that you were , because you were doing that , you never had the feeling that perhaps you were becoming too much a part of management rather than er simply representing work or did you simply see it as part of your , your job to look after the incentive scheme in that way because it did er that was a part of representing the workforce ?
21	Our response to these opposing arguments is to suggest that arguments that new technology is creating very large scale unemployment in the near future are alarmist , based on too simple a set of assumptions .
22	At this point in the debate a public bunfight has arisen between , on the one hand the authors of the Coopers & Lybrand report on Tuesday that warned of a ‘ fiscal reality gap ’ and a public sector borrowing requirement soaring way above Tory and Labour projections ( about which this column warned last week ) and those who believe this takes too gloomy a view of prospects .
23	Before a demoralising defeat when challenging Mike Tyson for the world heavyweight championship two years ago Biggs would have probably been too dangerous a proposition for Mason but something has gone from him since then and he was unable to fulfil bold pre-fight assertions .
24	In the month that WWII broke out , Trumbo 's pacifistic novel about the previous bash was issued and instantly suppressed ( a move with which , incidentally , the author was in full agreement , feeling it too dangerous a book for soldiers already in the field to be exposed to ) .
25	Industrial training is too crucial a question for politicians to remain ignorant about the issues involved .
26	It has recently been suggested that King overstated the numbers of the really poor because he used too large a multiplier for family size , and that perhaps their proportion of the population was nearer to a seventh in most years .
27	Although bottom-up approaches work for simple cases , there usually proves to be too large a number of attributes to analyse in more realistic situations .
28	Do not be tempted to make too large a frame from cardboard , unless it is very thick indeed .
29	The men who ruled India were aware that what they referred to as their prestige would in the end by compromised by too obvious a reliance on resort to arms .
30	For parents , it is only too long a period of encumbrance and handicap during which they are saddled with young who demand continual feeding , who reduce their freedom and regularly expose them to danger .