Example sentences of "was too [adj] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The place was supposed to be dangerous because the path was too narrow between the gorse bushes and the edge : it stood to reason , she stumbled over in the wind . |
| 2 | But he has failed in his great ambition , and perhaps the task was too much for a man who has had to spend time inventing a new identity for himself . |
| 3 | Doug Green suggests that it was too much for a teacher working in London for the first time : |
| 4 | The pace of Fowler was too much for the home side and three goals late in the game was just reward for some clinical finishing . |
| 5 | The threat of a maddened Myeloski was too much for the controller . |
| 6 | This , however , was too much for the Government and , using the excuse that public opinion was not yet ready to accept the protection of many unpopular modern buildings , Lord Caithness , the Minister of State for the Environment , arbitrarily whittled down English Heritage 's list to 18 buildings - excluding Bankside — although it represented a more traditional approach in the Fifties to the now-unfashionable Modern Movement . |
| 7 | This was too much for the professor and Doisneau was ordered by a French court to destroy the original negative . |
| 8 | That was too much for the coroner . |
| 9 | It was too much of a coincidence . |
| 10 | It was too much of a coincidence for there to have been two wrecks of similar size and age . |
| 11 | The business with the children in the wood and the subsequent discovery of this place was too much of a coincidence , surely . |
| 12 | ‘ I thought that Austria was too much of a hifalutin idea , ’ grumbles the bowl-headed frontman in an Irish accent that could shag a shamrock . |
| 13 | ‘ You 'll have to ask him that , but my guess is that he was too much of a gentleman . |
| 14 | He was too much of a nonconformist in his origins , too much of an individualist , at that time too much of an oddity , ever to be really happy in so tight-knit a community as a boarding-school . |
| 15 | This was too much of a threat to the rest of the work of the organization which is rooted in competition and activities . |
| 16 | That was too much of a price to pay . |
| 17 | As guests sat down to lunch in the company 's magnificent dining room earlier this week , the fellow with his back to the window was asked if there was too much of a draught . |
| 18 | He was too much of a loser to have been anything more than a hired hand . |
| 19 | But he knew he would n't , because he was too much of a coward . |
| 20 | A founder-member of the Institution of Chemical Engineers , he never reached high office ( he was too much of a maverick to fit into any formal organization ) but contributed much to its educational work . |
| 21 | Much as he admired schoolgirls , flouting the law was too much of a risk for someone with a public image . |
| 22 | Nutty thought that was too much of a risk , but if they were out it seemed almost like doing them a favour , to patronise their pool , confirm that it was in working order . |
| 23 | Chaplin was too much of a showman and too steeped in ‘ showbiz ’ ever to fall into that trap . |
| 24 | He was fond of old Bill — one felt affection for anything that was sufficiently old — but really he was too much of a prophet of woe . |
| 25 | She was threatened with that a few days later when she was sweeping the back stairs and her rear view was too much of a temptation for the young footman . |
| 26 | He was too much of a politician ever to outrage religious feelings as Rufus did , but his smooth words concealed a purpose very little different from that of Rufus . |
| 27 | Because the whole neighbourhood-thanks to Gittel 's big-mouthed elder sister-knew exactly who had been behind the curse , although even the sister was too much of a prude to tell anyone the reason why . ’ |
| 28 | There were several who thought that Rich was too much of a burden to expect Elfed to bear . |
| 29 | There was too much of the outlaw about him that held its own fascination . |
| 30 | it was too much of an ego trip for certain personalities as well . |