Example sentences of "[adv] too [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The less simple translation is that the battle continues between economic reformists and those hardliners , led politically by the prime minister , Li Peng , and ideologically by the 86-year-old Chen Yun , who believe that quick reform leads only too quickly to bourgeois liberalisation and peaceful evolution — witness the student democrats in 1989 in Beijing 's Tiananmen Square and the collapse of communism in the countries of Eastern Europe . |
| 2 | They lent too much too easily to unstable third world countries , private corporations built on sand and risky clients . |
| 3 | The response was so swift and unhesitating that McLeish was taken aback , and drove much too close to the car in front . |
| 4 | It tended to arrange debates late at night , and much too close to the critical Council meeting , when it realized it would otherwise have to maintain a parliamentary reserve in the Council if scrutiny had not been completed by a debate . |
| 5 | The move brought his mouth much too close to hers , and he took advantage of that fact before she had time to even consider evasive action . |
| 6 | ‘ Please , Pen , ’ Melanie pleaded , her husky whisper carrying all too clearly to the girl outside in the hall . |
| 7 | Very often the consumer media tend to be thought of together as all one group , but this leads all too soon to the sort of comments outlined in the introduction to this chapter . |
| 8 | There are Opposition Members who take some perverse delight in running down Britain 's environmental record and who are all too often to be found , both at home and abroad , adding their voices to those who accuse Britain of being the dirty man of Europe . |
| 9 | The third country in Panama still belongs all too obviously to the United States . |
| 10 | Today we are moving towards more equal and mutual ways of arranging our lives , but it is still too soon to be able to see clearly how this may change our ideas of ‘ masculinity ’ and ‘ femininity ’ . |
| 11 | Governments are expected to meet again here on January 18 to review the past six months , and many , particularly the US , are expected to argue that it is far too soon to be sending Vietnamese back against their will . |
| 12 | But it 's far too soon to be writing the post-mortems . |
| 13 | But , even if they did , experience shows that people usually react far too slowly to an alarm , particularly in the middle of the night . |
| 14 | There may follow a lack of communication and understanding between the computer professionals , the legal advisers , the ultimate users and the supplier of the software resulting in the purchase of a system which is cumbersome , does not provide all the information the users now realize they would have liked and which runs far too slowly to be of any practical use . |
| 15 | The Novell networks I 've been working have constantly been bleeping and displaying ‘ New message from ’ far too frequently to the annoyance of those around me — but who cares . |
| 16 | It was the first violent act , and she knew the sort of man who had perpetrated that act far too well to naively believe that the slaughtering of Suki would be the beginning and the end . |
| 17 | It is surprisingly easy to make the circuit and base leg far too close to the field , particularly if the surrounding countryside is rough and unlandable . |
| 18 | Keeping far too close to the field |
| 19 | Producers will usually only meet pluggers who they know already , and rarely see any band 's representative because they are probably far too close to the music to have any objectivity . |
| 20 | Seven years later , remedial works were still being carried out ; the raised flood-banks set far too close to the watercourse were being eroded away ; the stability of the downstream bridge was threatened ; and the real cost to the public purse of what was a relatively small scheme originally has yet to be clearly counted . |
| 21 | He paused , far too close to where she sat , ‘ you are an extremely beautiful and desirable young woman . |
| 22 | That deeply masculine voice , far too close to her ear , could only belong to one person . |
| 23 | It was also far too early to simply turn round and go back to the city even if Alain had been willing . |
| 24 | Almost too close to Madge Ramsey 's famous ; ‘ Say what you like , there 's nothing like a nice cup of tea . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Right , ’ he said , almost too quietly to be heard . |
| 26 | Tried moving to right but then too close to frame . |
| 27 | Let It Rock , it was called , Or maybe Too Fast To Live , Too Young To Die . |
| 28 | They spoke rather too loudly to be natural . |
| 29 | Mr Boldwood replied rather too quickly to Gabriel 's unspoken question . |
| 30 | You are being seduced by your Ego 's love of melodrama and , since it can feel thrilling to dice with death , you might be tempted to walk rather too close to the edge of the cliff . |