Example sentences of "[adv] too [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet many of the teachers we interviewed , far from being unaware of this risk , perceived only too clearly that it was inherent to the LEA 's preferred combination of group work and multiple curriculum focus teaching . |
| 2 | Dana did n't need her care — on the contrary , she showed only too clearly that she resented her twin 's interference . |
| 3 | But he had her between a rock and a hard place , and the look in his eyes told her only too clearly that he knew it . |
| 4 | His decision was taken , and the orders sent out for the triple muster , yet even after news from the northern border confirmed only too clearly that Scotland intended to take a full part in the harrying of his realm , he was slow to move . |
| 5 | The other students stayed seated , all turned towards the newcomer , anxious to make his acquaintance , and I knew only too well that he could have any one of them he liked as his friend . |
| 6 | Followers of Scottish football know only too well that a lapse in form and a broken leg are often the precursor of disasters to come . |
| 7 | ‘ Mr Maxwell , I understand only too well that you would like to pay this ransom as quickly as possible and take no risks and that since I want to catch these kidnappers , we are working at cross purposes to a certain extent . |
| 8 | Galileo knew only too well that it could , if the province of biblical authority were not scrupulously defined . |
| 9 | Laker knew only too well that the name which had once been an asset in the world of aviation was now a liability . |
| 10 | But to this day he had not once sat down at a table prepared by Beth , and both she and David knew only too well that it was a deliberate snub . |
| 11 | Dai knew only too well that the company mentality was to persevere until they got it right . |
| 12 | I am by no means inclined to consider Diodorus a mere copyist of his sources , and I know only too well that by stylistic criteria one could prove that Sir Ronald Syme is the author of some of the books written by his pupils . |
| 13 | But actually the Greeks in their most creative period knew only too well that the basis of existence is horrific . |
| 14 | And once Julius had made his mind up about something , Jessamy knew only too well that he never changed it . |
| 15 | She knew only too well that his bed probably would n't be empty ; was he so desperately in need of fresh conquests that he would attempt to seduce Shae while Marianne kicked her heels downstairs , awaiting her turn ? |
| 16 | But I know only too well that you do not love me , that you are marrying me for Papa 's dollars , and that I can not bear . |
| 17 | The hon. Gentleman knows only too well that in his autumn statement my right hon. Friend the Chancellor was able to announce a £1.4 billion boost to the railways and London Transport and an increase of more than 10 per cent . |
| 18 | My hon. Friend the Minister knows only too well that that desire has caused concern to parents in Bexley . |
| 19 | He knew only too well that he had something that Amaranth wanted very badly indeed access to the Arden candidate 's selection committee . |
| 20 | Joshua , who had been in the Commons for over twenty years , knew only too well that there had never been a woman in the Conservative Whips ' Office . |
| 21 | He knew only too well that keeping the peace at home required most of his attention . |
| 22 | Knowing only too well that she had committed herself , that she was in too deep now to change her story , she declared , ‘ It does n't make any difference whether you re-phrase the question or not , the answer 's still the same . ’ |
| 23 | Alas , one knows only too well that if Life magazine had had to cough up just one dollar for every time one has oneself cried ‘ Eureka ’ , or its golfing counterpart , that American publication would have been bled dry . |
| 24 | She knows only too well that if she finishes in front of McColgan , she is also likely to be the winner of the race . |
| 25 | ‘ But Harry may know only too well that through him the secret of this grave 's no secret . |
| 26 | And I knew all too well that we possess our lover only in our minds , that passionate love is incom-patible with life . |
| 27 | I am known all too well that it 's big rough galaxy out there , full of more surprises than the human imagination can conceive of . |
| 28 | But Sairellen knew all too well that had Luke not been delirious with fever that day he would surely have marched to Halifax ; not with a pitchfork or a flail or a home-made pike in his hands , since he had never been a " physical force " man but there , just the same . |
| 29 | And the believer agrees all too easily that he or she must indeed have this sort of proof if belief is to be possible . |
| 30 | This game was a little disheartening , not so much because of the disciplinary problem , but because it showed all too clearly that few if any of them were actually listening to what I was saying . |