Example sentences of "too [adj] a [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " 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 | The Soviet Union supported the narrow definition of eligibility for consultation and the United States favoured too broad a definition of eligibility . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | So had they put too high a sort of level for subsistence ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | An overlay of interactive colouring them followed to bring an element of form , though intentionally avoiding too detailed a degree of modelling . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Do not be tempted to make too large a frame from cardboard , unless it is very thick indeed . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Sukey raised eyebrows when he ordered rather too good a bottle of claret in restaurants . |
| 17 | This , then , is the first stage of reacting to loss : denial — shock that something bad has happened — is our psyche 's way of defending us from experiencing too great a sense of harm too quickly . |
| 18 | To stare at an empty vastness would be dispiriting ; perhaps also it would bring about too great a sense of isolation . |
| 19 | It was his belief that too great a degree of inequality within a society would prevent a common will or common interest from developing , and that is surely correct . |
| 20 | An excess of meats and spices cause aggression while too great a consumption of dairy foods and those with a high fat content may bring about depressive tendencies and lethargy . |
| 21 | There is a danger in indulging in too great a diversity of material and outlook and , as biogeographers have been few in number , diversity could lead to the continuing omission of the study of the impact of human activity . |
| 22 | As a result of these , too great a blame for dioxin contamination was placed on the chemical industry . |
| 23 | Thus in a case where the ‘ principles of good forestry ’ dictate that felling should take place , and would result in too great a sacrifice of amenity , the owner can claim compensation for the loss which he suffers . |
| 24 | It is difficult to understand why the judges selected his design for second prize , as the assessors had rejected it by saying that it was ‘ Too expensive and involving too great a sacrifice of property ’ , and were supported by Brunel and Burn . |
| 25 | And anyway , there will be enough public opinion in line with mine and Mike 's here ’ — he threw a brilliant smile at Mike — ‘ to protect us from too great a loss of circulation . |
| 26 | At high temperatures , the spaces between the solvent molecules have to be reduced if mixing is to take place and when this eventually results in too great a loss of entropy , phase separation occurs . |
| 27 | That would constitute too great a loss of face . |
| 28 | From the other flank , Michael Foot thought plans for reform gave too great a power of patronage to the prime minister and mocked the very idea of a representative democracy . |
| 29 | The first lay in the effect it might have on teaching and learning and the second in too great a concentration of power in the hands of the government of the day and especially with one person , the Secretary of State . |
| 30 | Since the formation of the UK Group of EEB Members we have been able to play a fuller role in the affairs of the EEB without too great a commitment of time and resources . |