Example sentences of "[adv] become too [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 2 | The Shah acknowledged to Hollingworth that he had perhaps become too remote from his people and that is courtiers had not always reported adverse criticisms to him , And he said that although he had earlier hoped that his stay abroad would be brief , he knew now that he would die in exile . |
| 3 | The demand for gas soon became too great for the coke ovens to supply it , so gas works were set up . |
| 4 | The strain finally became too much for the father-of-three who worked in John Major 's Huntingdon constituency in Cambridgeshire . |
| 5 | But , really , those outrageous parties just became too much . |
| 6 | Alison was already becoming too much of a fixture in his life . |
| 7 | It was a good sign ; if the jacks did n't decimate the fry the water would soon become too populated and no longer produce the big fish me and my ilk were keen to catch . |
| 8 | At the start it seemed to improve the matches but it , they 've just become too hectic now I think . |
| 9 | You just become too slow . |
| 10 | Perhaps I have just become too comfortable with the cheering notion that women are far too busy getting on with their careers and their lives to crucify themselves worrying about ragged cuticles or the size of their ankles . |
| 11 | The complaint of the contemporary historian David lord Hailes that ‘ the Marian controversy has already become too angry and too voluminous ’ was prophetic . |
| 12 | The talk quickly became too technical for Sabine to follow , and Marie-Christine laughed at her bemused expression . |
| 13 | But if she did n't try , or he refused her food because she would n't do as he told her , she would quickly become too weak . |
| 14 | It needs to be used as soon as it is made , however , as it quickly becomes too tough to handle and shape . |
| 15 | If the control key is left attached to the adjustment spindle it rapidly becomes too hot for comfortable handling . |
| 16 | ‘ They just do n't come across as remotely manufactured although soon they 'll probably become too aware to be good any more . ’ |
| 17 | This was not due to the fact that the evidence for the descent of man from animals now became too overwhelming to resist , though , as it happened , it accumulated rapidly in the 1850s . |
| 18 | Our feet often became too sore and blistered to be put into shoes , so we walked home in our stockinged feet . |
| 19 | ‘ So it is , ’ he ends , ‘ that when men from low estate are once exalted , they generally are most forgetful of past favours … which is now become too fashionable , especially with such who cover their guilt with the mask of religion … |
| 20 | For smart people , discerning people , the clutter and crush had eventually become too much . |
| 21 | Of late they have simply become too predictable when seeking the back of the net . |
| 22 | Because the size of potential losses is growing so fast , many insurers now reckon that providing catastrophe cover has simply become too risky and have quit the market . |
| 23 | Using the device of the " magic door " also allows you to contain the world of pretend within the hall if , for example , there are children in the class for whom the drama frequently becomes too real . |
| 24 | But , although the common ground is large and includes almost everything said in the first eight chapters about how to fill in the framework and conduct the disputes , unity then becomes too much for us . |
| 25 | There is probably some lower limit below which the garage will not go in skimping the service , because the risk of detection then becomes too high ( O'Brien ) . |
| 26 | One is to stay together and live ‘ to make each other miserable , a habit which sometimes becomes too strong to break . ’ |
| 27 | Ross Aldridge , the ‘ newcomer ’ policeman , must have been pretty well-briefed by his predecessor , because he restricted himself to friendly off-the-record warnings when the practice occasionally became too obvious . |