Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] too [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we all agreed and erm shared , then erm the fact that we were confident would n't perhaps matter too much . |
| 2 | Shashin , you better shout too much , that 's no good |
| 3 | After reading about this incident in my book the headteacher involved wrote to me saying he felt that teachers do perhaps shout too much but that the issue for him was that the student was a ‘ guest ’ in the school which in turn was a family . |
| 4 | But you must not think too much about her . ’ |
| 5 | In the first place , we should not paint too pessimistic a view of what was happening to the landed classes , since the experiences of this group varied considerably from region to region . |
| 6 | Do not eat too much meat , fish , or shellfish in very hot climates : you are safer eating vegetarian food during your stay . |
| 7 | A Roman coin came from under the tower at the restoration of 1855 , but one can not make too much of that . |
| 8 | A gentleman ‘ should not make too much use of tobacco ’ but ‘ should recognize the Fort in Agra as unequalled in the whole world [ and ] … must think of Isfahan as the best town in Persia ’ ; if he insists on travelling he should visit ‘ Egypt because it is worth seeing ’ . |
| 9 | something which they may have saved for themselves or perhaps by doing an odd job here and there , and working a day or two a week , which will not make too great demands on their strength , but will just keep the household going . |
| 10 | The uneven nature of the tour , with hard games on the weekend and soft ones mid-week , does not make too many physical demands on players . |
| 11 | On the other hand , successful communication must work within the framework of the receiver 's existing knowledge ; it must not make too many demands . |
| 12 | I should not want too many flowers . ’ |
| 13 | His main concern appeared to be that he did not want too many parents to be able to read it because they would find it attractive . |
| 14 | ‘ You — you must not refine too much upon — upon what transpired between us . |
| 15 | But we must not build too much , at this early stage in Gassendi 's thought , on these positive aspects of it . |
| 16 | Do not tack too much in the early stages of the beat and do not let yourself be forced the wrong way . |
| 17 | In contradistinction to the indolent paupers who sponged off the Poor Rate and exploited pay make-up , and the hard-working landless town dweller who also suffered , he further cited the most respectable portion of the peasantry who were prevented from rising above the nominal low price of hire , so that the wage level ‘ must soon fall too low to allow the most abstemious worker to maintain himself . |
| 18 | It would not need too keen an eye ( nor a cynical disposition ) to spot a coincidence between one of the editors of the volumes and the present author of this piece and think … |
| 19 | As you will realise , some offences are predominantly working-class and others predominantly middle-class , and it is important that self-report studies do not include too many offences typical of one group or class . |
| 20 | When they occur , your catalogue and reference list will point this out — you really can not know too much about each and every rose in your garden . |
| 21 | The Gnomes were very interested in this ; as Flaherty said , you could not know too much about these things , although it was a pig 's pity that such a jewel could n't be worn by the King of the day when he went about his reigning , because was n't that the purpose of crowns and jewels anyway ? |
| 22 | Moreover , he himself had loyalties of his own to preserve , and it was well for him that he should not know too much . |
| 23 | She might not know too much about men — her adult experiences had been confined to Hugh Forster — but she did know her own sex . |
| 24 | The first is to try to achieve a combination in which the tones of the different parts of the design are sufficiently distinct to read clearly one from another but do not display too violent tonal contrasts , unless a particularly dramatic effect is part of your aim ! |
| 25 | Perhaps Singapore wants to make Indonesia a counterweight against Malaysia so that Malaysia will not exert too much pressure on it . " |
| 26 | And my answer always was that I could not expect too much when I expected nothing at all for I never thought that anyone whom I could love , would stoop to love ME . |
| 27 | It is certainly right to hold the inquiry but we should not expect too much from it . |
| 28 | Just as we should not expect too much from those West German areas that have simply erected speed restriction signs without reinforcing the message with physical infrastructure , so design changes alone , though better than legal changes alone , are still inadequate . |
| 29 | My mother soon began to drum into me the notion that I was different because of my eyesight , and therefore that I should not expect too much out of life . |
| 30 | Do not expect too much in the early stages , even if your dog has become a model pupil at home . |