Example sentences of "[not/n't] too [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IT 'S NOT too surprising to discover that House Of Love 's mainman , Guy Chadwick lives in a house that is , literally , a house of love . |
| 2 | He added , cynically , that if Labour came in ‘ it would be too weak to do much harm , but not too weak to get discredited ’ . |
| 3 | It is not too early to start thinking about sweeping reforms , as history shows . |
| 4 | It is not too early to begin thinking about it now , particularly if this is to be a Royal occasion . |
| 5 | He concludes that ‘ it is not too strong to say that the marriage law as it operated in practice in England from the fourteenth to the nineteenth centuries was a mess ’ ( p. 135 ) . |
| 6 | It is not too strong to say that it is impossible to test Marx 's thesis regarding the labour theory of value at a micro-economic level because Marx and Marxists have totally disregarded any element of profit which may result from risk-taking . |
| 7 | It is not too strong to say that the ultimate economic problem — choice under conditions of scarcity — results from this radical rupture in the natural world and in human personality . |
| 8 | perhaps it is not too strong to say that in national firms or boutiques the culture is defined by the owner or founder of the business . |
| 9 | ‘ I am a proud man , Li Shai Tung , but not too proud to admit it when I have been wrong- and I was wrong about the threat from the Ping Tiao . |
| 10 | I am born of noble stock and I am not too proud to admit it . |
| 11 | Suddenly , Constance realised that she actually was very tired — but not too tired to notice with pleasure the warm wood panelling , the Turkey-red stair carpet and the clean smell of polish which all added up to an atmosphere of richness and opulence quite foreign to her mother 's sparse house in Northumberland . |
| 12 | When the girls eventually reached home Major and Mrs Burrows were already in bed , but not too tired to hear the tremendous news . |
| 13 | So it 's not too ridiculous to compare them to a cross between Marc Almond , Nick Cave and The Chameleons . |
| 14 | It is not too much to say that we entered the conference in the law and atmosphere of the 17th century and we came out with a fair prospect of 20th century conditions . ' |
| 15 | John Paris , in his biography of Davy published in 1825 , wrote : ‘ I have been able to present to the world a complete history of those proceedings which have so happily led to discovery of which it is not too much to say that it is at once the pride of science , the triumph of humanity and the glory of the age in which we live . ’ |
| 16 | Indeed it is not too much to say that the Inklings were preoccupied with them . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's not too much to say it 's the storm of the century , ’ Joe Friday , director of the National Weather Service , said . |
| 18 | Her life had been full of pain and perplexity ; it is not too much to say that her emotional needs had been fastened on a man whom she never properly understood , and that he in turn was baffled and then enraged by her insistent and neurotic demands upon him . |
| 19 | Indeed , it is not too much to say that this is probably the single thing that " everyone know about Athenian democracy . |
| 20 | It is not too much to say that the quoted argument has the strength of this : We say it is probable that the spoon is under the napkin ; the relation of " being under " is therefore a relation of probability . |
| 21 | It is not too much to say that the probabilistic analyses must revise this into a belief that many effects are not made to happen . |
| 22 | In Billie Holiday 's 1936 recording of ‘ These Foolish Things ’ it is not too much to say that the melody is recomposed . |
| 23 | It is not too much to say that , throughout the last three critical years in China , it is to Dr Morrison that the British public has looked from day to day for the earliest and most accurate intelligence concerning events in which the interests of this country have been so largely involved . ’ |
| 24 | It is not too much to say that this interpretation of what appears the plain meaning of section 4 of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act , 1974 , would make a farce out of the children 's hearing system . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's not too much to say it 's the storm of the century , ’ said Joe Friday , director of the National Weather Service . |
| 26 | One place in a team is not too much to give up in return for new ideas and expertise . ’ |
| 27 | Surely not too much to ask of a model that , by its makers ' own assertion , is aimed at ‘ performance and handling enthusiasts ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ Whose is it then , ’ his nan had wanted to know , ‘ if it 's not too much to ask ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ No , it 's not too much to ask , ’ a young man said from behind Garcia . |
| 30 | ‘ It is , perhaps , not too much to ask on their behalf for a period of calm during which they can reassert , each in his and her own way , the tradition of public service to which they are clearly dedicated . ’ |