Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] too [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if , for some reason , he has really chosen to drop out for a while , he would n't be grateful for too much fuss , would he ? ’ |
| 2 | However , I do feel optimistic that our growing understanding of our diverse cultures and histories , which exposes the myths and stereotypes we have been force-fed by the British for too many generations , will forge an increasingly powerful alliance in our struggle against racism in this country . |
| 3 | It is only small because a very limited number of Conservatives on the back benches are not totally reliable on too many occasions . |
| 4 | The costs of Mossadeq 's policies had come to seem to high to too many people and there was already widespread dissatisfaction with his rule , The CIA and M16 provided a spark , but the dry tinder was Iranian . |
| 5 | In 1921 , for example , we find the police warning against setting up a ‘ continental system of domestic espionage ’ in Britain ( p. 6 ) Even SIS , which had designs on MI5 in 1945 , shied away from the latter 's counter-subversive functions , so as not to be ‘ associated with the idea of an internal Gestapo , ( p. 177 ) No wonder governments are nervous of too much openness in this area . |
| 6 | Very occasionally , the opposite happens , e.g. in Robbins ' Glass Pieces to John Cage 's ‘ minimal music ’ , the constant repetition of musical phrases paralleled by dance phrases lost the interest of an audience bored with too much meaningless to-ing and fro-ing . |
| 7 | He supposed you got bored with too much of it , but just at the moment it seemed very desirable . |
| 8 | The lane into the house was narrow and winding with too many gates so he parked the car on the wide grass margin beside the platform for the creamery cans . |
| 9 | ‘ The seafront area is run-down with too much concrete , the sea defence wall will act as a Berlin Wall cutting people off from the beach and the sea . |
| 10 | Straining to be heard above the traffic , his voice hoarse with too much campaigning and cracking with too much emotion , the Labour leader conceded defeat in a dignified and moving statement . |
| 11 | Neither was very successful because the characters were not fully defined and the plots were confused by too much use of stage effects . |
| 12 | He had pinkish freckles and spiky blond eyelashes , and eyes red-rimmed with too much chlorine . |
| 13 | first first few days you got involved with too many foremen . |
| 14 | But guard against getting overtired on the one hand , and on the other against become sluggish from too little exercise . |
| 15 | But as I say I do n't necessarily want to get involved in too much of the detail of the statistics of it , I simply want to make the overall point that we 've been told that there are three thousand unemployed . |
| 16 | I tend to lead a sort of idiotic existence of trying to get involved in too many things and dashing about ; and this is going to be my problem — trying to sort of control myself and work out something so that we have a proper family life . |
| 17 | He said that everyone knew that clubs were involved in too many matches but no-one did much about rectifying the situation . |
| 18 | Management at Hunslet is acutely aware of the risks of operating in a sector acutely vulnerable to too much or too little government interference . |
| 19 | Management at Hunslet is acutely aware of the risks of operating in a sector acutely vulnerable to too much or too little government interference . |
| 20 | Equally regrettably , they suggest that she who ( presumably ) approved them is not so much a Pharisee as a Philistine : one , moreover , who has been impressed by too many drives down The Bishop 's Avenue , where Hampstead 's temples to new money are built , en route to the Finchley constituency . |
| 21 | ‘ Enough or too much ’ might be the poet/painter William Blake 's prescription for life , but the SFX director must stop short of too much , since added detail is added time and above all , money — as well as possibly being artistically counterproductive . |
| 22 | And was it Trevor who opined about the Pakistan side that it was ‘ full of too many chiefs and not enough Indians ’ ? |
| 23 | And there was no chance for Ruth to give the conversation more thought as Steve emerged from his bedroom , tousled and bleary-eyed from too much champagne . |
| 24 | ‘ You 've been stuck in too many cheap hotel rooms , Anya , with nothing better to read than that overrated family saga . |
| 25 | They were also able without too much difficulty to create a series of possible contexts in which ( they hoped ) the meaning of the forms chosen would be clear from the context itself . |
| 26 | Within a few weeks he began to feel better , and his depression , anxiety , tiredness , panic attacks , fainting and sweating are now a thing of the past Problems , due to too much caffeine are fairly common , but not everyone has the sort of symptoms that Ken experienced . |
| 27 | Imbalances in the electrical system can either be due to too much energy or too little energy , and acupuncture aims to correct such imbalances by removing blocks and by reducing or increasing the amount of energy . |
| 28 | By this interpretation , the problem that appears as subject mismatch may not be due to too little specialism , but to too much . |
| 29 | These should be as clear as possible without too much heavy light and shade . |
| 30 | But in private he affected too much modesty , and before 1922 had been junior to too many of them . |