Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] too [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Ministry of Defence and Central Government established a team ten years ago when the disappearances became too frequent and too alarming to be ignored . |
| 2 | Fortunately , being so close to the bathroom , I was able to rinse out the plastic waste-basket he was forced to use whenever his cramps got too bad . |
| 3 | Her dressmakers realized too late that they had not taken the size of the coach into consideration when they had designed the ivory silk wedding gown with its 25-foot-long train . |
| 4 | He hurried back to the priest 's house , plucked one from the wall , lit it with a tinder and ran back before Cranston 's litany of curses became too audible . |
| 5 | In an interview with La Stampa yesterday , Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA chief Carlo De Benedetti condemned the pervasive system of political corruption , which he says obligated Olivetti to pay bribes or lose contracts , as ‘ having reduced Italy to a state worse than the Third World ’ : he says that at the last shareholders meeting earlier this year , he had to deny any bribery because he could n't preview information to the shareholders that was intended for the legal authorities ; he says that facing the judges , he felt liberated from a weight — ‘ then I felt a sense of justice — it pleased me to be there , ’ noting that when the company decided that the demands of the postal service for slush funds became too extreme and Olivetti stopped paying , ‘ we did n't sell another machine to the Post — we had arrived at the absurd point where , if we did n't pay , we did n't work and the moment we quit paying , we did n't work any more ’ . |
| 6 | For those , talk of variables smacked too much of talk of causes with no place for the human being as agent . |
| 7 | Her eyes seemed too bold , her shorts too tight and her sun-reddened limbs too large . |
| 8 | Her legs seemed too weak to carry her back upstairs to the sanctuary of her turret room . |
| 9 | ‘ They forced us to make errors while our decision-makers worked too much behind our gain line . ’ |
| 10 | my head and eyes ached too much to learn . |
| 11 | YARM AA delegates enjoyed rod-bending action on a private carp lake near Croft as several heavy weights proved too strong for the anglers . |
| 12 | All staff had been invited to submit book lists through their heads of department , but often these lists had too much textbook-type material , and there was inevitable overlap between lists . |
| 13 | Well that 's what Lucy said , that it wouldnae lasted too long , I mean , it was over a year . |
| 14 | My fingers seemed too big . |
| 15 | Both recognized that much involuntary poverty went untouched by the Poor Law and that Poor Law functions overlapped too much with those of other local authorities . |
| 16 | The fundamental problem with the third force , however , was that Cold War tensions became too pressing in 1947 for Europe to escape them . |
| 17 | Everyday matters seemed too much for him since the murder , they knew he could not cope with the bigger issues . |
| 18 | The little round lawn with its grass path was so bitty that I was tempted to remove it altogether , and the two paved areas seemed too small to accommodate much more than a deckchair . |
| 19 | The statistics in these countries contained too few births to women aged 45 and over to permit a useful assessment of the interacting effect of older age and birth order upon late fetal mortality . |
| 20 | Midway through the afternoon there was the longest grind comp , in which dreadlocked local favourite Colin was beaten surprisingly by Richie , the Pete Rodgers for the nineties , whose reliably long stand-ups proved too much for everyone else . |
| 21 | However , the cost of painting so many large plates proved too expensive so plans were made to issue five sections : trees and shrubs , greenhouse plants , exotics , flowers and fruits ; all with plates of the most unusual varieties . |
| 22 | His very short statements , and constant insistence that they had done the right thing , made it difficult , if not impossible , to reflect the point of the view of ‘ the other side ’ — the side of the authorities , who then complained that the parents had too much publicity and had the full support of the press and media . |
| 23 | The following puddings arrived too late for our tasting : |
| 24 | Sikes knew too much — too many dangerous secrets about Fagin himself . |
| 25 | When the English upper classes grew too civilized for such ideas , Cromwellians overthrew them and carried on worse than before . |
| 26 | The armholes looked too short , the sleeves did n't look as if they would fit and the bust size was nowhere near the size that was required . |
| 27 | The collections grew too large and in the 1880s he added the tall building next door . |
| 28 | Perhaps his trousers looked too smart . |
| 29 | Some of these private banks issued too many notes and caused banking panics as large numbers of their own customers ( and holders ) presented notes all at the same time for redemption in gold . |
| 30 | In a few cases the wetlands proved too much for them . |