Example sentences of "was too [adj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps this was too sinister for the judges ' tastes ? |
| 2 | She was too well-trained in the proprieties to smile a recognition at Aunt Tossie ; and Aunt Tossie did not remember her . |
| 3 | He also expected support from Russia , but the tsar was too preoccupied with the affairs of Europe , where Napoleon was at the height of his powers , and Adam Czartoryski , the Russian foreign minister , advised negotiations with the Turks , rather than war . |
| 4 | The obvious interpretation was that Eric was going to set fire to some dogs , but I was too wise in the ways of the Factory to treat that as definite ; I suspected there was more |
| 5 | Maybe one of the lorries had a hole in it — nothing , it seemed , was too bizarre for the purposes of sound arithmetic . |
| 6 | I was too old for the children 's ward so I was in with men . |
| 7 | Yet I remembered a pale-green crepe dress with rosebuds on it that was too tight under the arms and prickly round the neck , and a navy-blue sailor suit with a white collar that chafed . |
| 8 | Spring was too yellow for the purposes of painting , and he agreed with Wordsworth that the greens of summer were monotonous . |
| 9 | The demise of the Civil Service Department may have been due to a feeling by ministers that it was too conscious of the interests of staff . |
| 10 | It 's been suggested that the crowd was too large for the organisers to handle , and at today 's police authority meeeting Gloucestershire 's Chief Constable announced a review into how the event was run . |
| 11 | They may actually have to take risks : all the fault of Mrs Thatcher , but not because she was too interested in the entrepreneurs ; quite the contrary , because she over-egged the pudding for the house-owning classes . |