Example sentences of "[verb] too [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also seems to this reviewer to accept too readily the authenticity of certain pieces ( most notably no. 27 , Imitator of Desiderio da Settignano , Virgin and Child ) , and a maddening feature is his habit of quoting inventory numbers rather than published sources for comparable pieces in other museums , which gives the impression that these comparanda have not been published . |
| 2 | The first is whether we tend to accept too readily the veracity and accuracy of media reports . |
| 3 | If the process is carried too far the material will however be weakened and eventually broken . |
| 4 | Greg was panicked into opening too baldly the subject closest to his heart . |
| 5 | If the excitation changes are made too quickly the motor is unable to move the motor to the new demanded position and consequently there is a permanent error in the actual load position compared to the position expected by the controller . |
| 6 | The problem is that Weller , ever earnest , has internalized too thoroughly the edict Rock is Dead . |
| 7 | The key is turned to the left for maximum output , but if turned too far the integral cleaning needle engages and may snuff out the flame — you need to be really careful . |
| 8 | She criticizes John for having accepted too readily the standards of the day and for having adapted too easily to the social and literary context in which he found himself : |
| 9 | It has got too far the imtimidation from the young people has got too bad to put up with |
| 10 | It has got too far the imtimidation from the young people has got too bad to put up with |
| 11 | If Leslie had been going too fast the others would have told him to slow down . |
| 12 | The bus is going too slow the bear 's still going grrr , aargh ! |
| 13 | Other firms risk going too far the other way , imposing a too-narrow management — sometimes from outside the profession — and so alienating partners . |
| 14 | But we must beware of going too far the other way . |
| 15 | Even though the NSDAP was to achieve its majority in the Danzig Volkstag with a very clear mandate from the electorate to do what it thought necessary , most Danzigers were prepared to reap the benefits of being on the winning side without pondering too deeply the significance or morality of their own personal support for a party they did not entirely trust or like . |
| 16 | ‘ When I started , I erred too far the wrong way and was massacring copy . ’ |
| 17 | How do we do that without spreading too widely the ability to make bombs ? |
| 18 | He prized too highly the Judaic emphasis of the wholeness of man 's nature — oneness — his enjoyment of the gift of sexuality ; and he criticised — at least e silencio — the false views that dichotomised and castrated man . |
| 19 | It has n't stopped him making guest appearances and recordings with western orchestras , and he is no longer in a position where he 's asked only to conduct Russian music — ‘ Berlioz and Beethoven with British orchestras were far more interesting propositions for me than , for example , Tchaikovsky , because you remember too much the way Russian orchestras play Tchaikovsky with the huge sound and the heaviness and the passion ’ . |
| 20 | Her main fault is that she takes too seriously the allusive jokes in Asquith 's letters . |
| 21 | Holding too lucidly the deep glimpse |
| 22 | Should one consequently resist too vigorously the wicked thought that active citizenship in modern Britain will be a status conferred on those who actually pay their poll tax ? |
| 23 | We need not take too seriously the explanation of the shattered pebbles as being caused by lightning strikes or local fires ; this explanation invokes an awful lot of lightning in low rainfall regions and too many fires for comfort in areas with scant vegetation cover and small populations . |
| 24 | As Pip cared not to question too closely the sources of his own endowment . |
| 25 | I was already queer , and had known too long the vice of distinctiveness in my personal life as well as in my poetry . |
| 26 | If the phase resistance is set too high the a.c. current component is low and the power losses ( r ) are small . |
| 27 | If the constant clock frequency is set too high the motor is unable to accelerate the load inertia to the corresponding stepping rate and the system either fails to operate at all or loses steps at the start of its travel . |
| 28 | Free from the constraints of didacticism , allowing his particular example to make a point without feeling he had to underline it , he showed in The Albatross four sharply realised apprentices learning too late the lessons of experience which greed and folly had brought to them . |
| 29 | This seems to be pushing the linguistic analogy too far , and to be taking too literally the structuralist tenet that literature is ‘ the essential manifestation ’ of language , and that ‘ the writer does nothing more than read language ’ ( p.84 ) . |
| 30 | Although the majority of people would not want to revert stuffily to the strict dress code for civil servants of the 1950s , does my right hon. Friend agree that the pendulum may have swung too far the other way ? |