Example sentences of "was not too [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I imagine that Eliot 's early admiration , if that was not too strong a word , was due to Berdyaev 's excellent little book on the Russian Revolution ; a movement of which four years ' personal experience was enough to dispel early hopes . |
| 2 | The parentheses gave her a sense of not existing , un-being perhaps was not too strong a word . |
| 3 | Firstly , donkeys began to be used in the draft capacity , which was not too serious a blow , but the advent of the train almost doomed the breed to extinction . |
| 4 | ( d ) Suicide was not too remote a consequence of the breach of duty . |
| 5 | One consequence was this : once it was accepted that scripture stood alone outside tradition , and could be interpreted correctly by anyone with a pure heart and God-given rationality , it was not too big a step to suggest that the same could also be said of nature . |
| 6 | As Robert Myers , Grumman 's laconic president , says now : ‘ I guess that sale was n't too good a move from the State Department 's standpoint . ’ |
| 7 | It was one of these jobs we were hoping It was n't too big a load but it was a houseload , we were hoping to get mi finished for the mid-afternoon , about three o'clock in the afternoon , or four perhaps . |
| 8 | Substitute splutter for bang and bang for splutter and that was n't too bad a forecast . |