Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] too [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To describe the process as reform would be to claim too much . |
| 2 | Man , furthermore , shares sociality with a wide array of other living organisms and to treat the specifically human kind without a look at other species would be to assume too narrow a perspective . |
| 3 | But if manufacturers were to try too hard to come up with new ideas we 'd be constantly faced with designs to rival Gibson 's semi-mythical Moderne and Burns ' Flyte in the grossness stakes . |
| 4 | Apricot 's were to spend too much time on homework , not to have a boyfriend , not play an instrument , talk too much and be too big for her boots . |
| 5 | These sentiments were to prove too rich for the Whigs and Liberals who were predominant in the mid nineteenth century . |
| 6 | The most common failings are to rely too much on words rather than extensively labelled diagrams , to use technical terms and concepts which the user may not understand , to focus on what it is at the expense of what it does and to fail to separate the needs of the operator from the details which are needed to set up the device , to locate faults , to provide remedies and to provide routine maintenance . |
| 7 | Regan declares her love to be identical with Goneril 's , only that she has understated it ( we had scarce thought it possible to go beyond Goneril ) : To claim that your love for your father exceeds all the joys which can be derived from the senses — with your newly wedded husband standing by — is to claim too much . |
| 8 | The most common beginner 's mistake is to sit too far aft in the boat and that causes a great wrist a tail of to come up from the trunk . |
| 9 | This , again , is to give too much weight to later legends which attribute Rosamund 's death to the fury of a jealous Queen who , according to one version , tore the King 's mistress 's eyes out or , according to another , gave her a choice between poison and the knife . |
| 10 | As you can see , the main mistake people make with carbohydrate is to use too much fat with it . |
| 11 | ‘ The biggest mistake caterers make is to put too many chips in a basket at a time . |
| 12 | With hindsight , this can be seen as the first step in the transformation of Gloucester into the lord of the north , but this is to read too much into a single grant . |
| 13 | With hindsight , this can be seen as the first step in the transformation of Gloucester into the lord of the north , but this is to read too much into a single grant . |
| 14 | Mr. Gardiner submitted that this case was neutral in relation to the Woolwich principle but I think that is to take too favourable a view of it . |
| 15 | When the majority of athletes begin to take vitamin supplements the most basic mistake they make is to take too many without considering which is going to help them most . |
| 16 | I think that this is to take too much from the decision . |
| 17 | But to visualise the nation stripped both of its territorial significance and of its ethnic assumptions is to ask too much of the imagination . |
| 18 | The most common mistake is to broadcast too much seed producing such a heavy crop that the grasses are smothered . |
| 19 | While Folly was coming uncomfortably to terms with the fact that the reason they had to avoid built-up areas was to avoid too much carnage if they fell out of the sky , Luke turned to the man in the overalls , who was waiting respectfully for them to finish talking . |
| 20 | The monumental folly of such ideas , produced by planners who have capitulated to the strangulation of the motor car and destroyed city communities from Liverpool to Hong Kong , was to dawn too late . |
| 21 | Berkeley , nevertheless , thought that to concede anything to materialism was to concede too much , and that any element of materialism inevitably led to scepticism and atheism . |
| 22 | Anselm was to learn too late that a landowner had more to fear from grasping tenants beneath him than from the king above . |