Example sentences of "were too [adj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For funerals , the Reverend Bottingley felt , were not a woman 's occasion , they were too hard on the emotions , and on the feet and knees , and he did not like to see women weep in public . |
| 2 | The remarks were supposed to be private , but they were too juicy for the journalists to keep to themselves . |
| 3 | The rooms were too chilly for the youngsters , so we left with mother-in-law . |
| 4 | The puff sleeves were too tight under the armpits , pinched your flesh . |
| 5 | The minor jobbing work such as labels , bills and prospectuses , which every printer undertook , was a valuable — perhaps an essential — part of the scheme , for it filled gaps that were too short for the stages of book production . |
| 6 | Amphetamine produces its effects by causing certain neurons to release more of the neurotransmitter , dopamine — one of the many chemicals used in the brain to transmit signals from one cell to another — suggesting that schizophrenics either produced too much , or were too sensitive to the actions of the transmitter . |
| 7 | One example of an inappropriate context was in rural areas of Wales where some teachers considered that timetables were too unfamiliar to the pupils to provide a fair test of their skills and understanding of the mathematics involved . |