Example sentences of "[verb] too [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was n't keeping too close a watch , ’ she confessed . |
| 2 | Mr Justice Simon Brown , the High Court judge , had expected too high a standard of care and expertise in the firm 's performance of its duties towards the Luxmoore-Mays . |
| 3 | It 's not satire exactly , since Hayworth has too kindly an eye for the human condition . |
| 4 | To the joy of jewellers visible light has too low a frequency to excite an electron in a perfect diamond . |
| 5 | The valuation is important : if you put too high a price on the property the market will reject it and you will not sell . |
| 6 | Of course , if we put too low a price on the asset we are selling , perhaps because we want large queues of buyers for this asset so we can claim how popular it is , we make a loss on the sale and you make a profit . |
| 7 | But on the other there were the usual fears that the United States might overreact or give too high a priority to the Far East at the expense of Europe . |
| 8 | Is there not a danger that modern cases go on too long and cover too wide an area ? |
| 9 | To me ‘ positive'/ ‘ negative ’ seemed too sharp a distinction , for which I should have preferred the category ‘ included'/ ‘ excluded ’ . |
| 10 | To set too high a standard tends to discourage a student unduly ; too lenient a standard , particularly if accompanied by few comments , may give a student a false idea of his/her examination prospects . |
| 11 | It 's a pity the recommended individual commanded too high a price . |
| 12 | A proposed visit to Cuba by Khrushchev was cancelled , probably as a result of a combination of the following factors : ( 1 ) pressure from Khrushchev 's political opponents at home ; ( 2 ) fears ( both Soviet and Cuban ) of inciting Washington ; and ( 3 ) Castro 's own worries about according too high a profile to the relationship with Moscow . |
| 13 | If a buyer has access to a seller 's cost structure then he is in a powerful position to negotiate a cheaper price , or at least avoid paying too high a price . |
| 14 | Wall ( 1986 ) argues that some historians have drawn too sharp a distinction between the ‘ family economy ’ and the ‘ family wage economy ’ and that , in circumstances which offered possibilities for both , family production coexisted with waged work . |
| 15 | Anomalously , proposals for Private Member 's bills are emanating increasingly from governments ; a government wishes to see a particular measure enacted but either wishes not to devote government time to it , or wishes to avoid too close an association with its controversial subject-matter , or both . |
| 16 | You can , but Keira 's got too long a hair . |
| 17 | To give it more would be out of proportion to the need shown and would entail too high a risk of unjustifiable interference with the freedom of expression of the press and public . |
| 18 | ( He still thinks that universities accept too low a standard of written English communication from their students . ) |
| 19 | Gibeau felt that we had had too easy a time of it at Canjuers and for the last three days introduced a new punishment . |
| 20 | Hills said : ‘ She has been crying out for a mile , and the way the race was run she has been lucky enough not to have had too hard a race . ’ |
| 21 | Not overstretching by trying to cover too wide a range of applications simultaneously is also important . |
| 22 | We can not , therefore , draw too sharp a distinction between nuclear and extended family types . |
| 23 | There is also the tendency when comparing the past with the present to draw too sharp a distinction between ‘ then and now ’ , a tendency often linked to a view of the present as either vastly superior or inferior to the past . |
| 24 | If you get too close a warning is sounded ; if you ignore this , the brakes are applied . |
| 25 | Horak forged ahead on his own but set too fast a pace and died at Elmbridge . |
| 26 | ‘ Could it be that crime has become too easy , that violence has become too much a theme of television and videos , that respect for other people has gone too much out of fashion and too many young people see no stake for themselves in this society and see more of a future in crime and the black economy ? ’ he asked . |
| 27 | This could , however , suggest too late a date for the work at Trier ( for it is very unlikely to have been after 325 ) , indeed , Parlasca ( 1975 , 77 ) thinks the mosaicist could have travelled in the opposite direction . |
| 28 | On the other hand you may be expecting too fast a weight loss . |
| 29 | We would be wise not to build too high a building on such a flimsy foundation . |
| 30 | ‘ It will be useless to observe to the Society that it is of the greatest importance to procure a place as soon as possible , if the Professor is not enabled to begin his Lectures by Christmas ( 1791 ) the establishment will be put off for one year — the Zootomy being strictly the first part he is to begin to teach to the pupils , which everyone knows could not be attempted in the Summer — and it would be feared too long a delay might hurt the success of the establishment . ’ |