Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] too [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Or perhaps too much , ’ laughed Susan , who was looking beautiful despite her pallor and the fact that her blue frock was practically in its dotage . |
| 2 | Even when she 'd had a drink or so too many she still had her stocking seams straight . ’ |
| 3 | I felt fainter and fainter and worse and worse and more and more nauseous , unsure whether it was the bitterness of sibling-thwarted love , or just too much starch and refined sugar . |
| 4 | I B M employees rarely go to a conference , attend a meeting or take part in a course without being asked whether it meant their expectations , whether it was too long , too short , too dull , or ju or just too much . |
| 5 | Externalisation or blaming — The stresses and strains of a particular job or having too much money , or alternatively too little , may be blamed for alcoholism or drug addiction or other form of addictive disease , despite the fact that these problems are widespread throughout the whole of society . |
| 6 | or simply too many miles since they were last replaced . |
| 7 | Ranks of valiant warriors crashing to catastrophe , with a great deal of rolling thunder and rather too much sulphur and brimstone . |
| 8 | At the moment there 's too much whistle and so too many stoppages . |
| 9 | Consequently , consumers demand more of the good than if its price reflected all social costs and so too much of the good is produced . |
| 10 | Now , little more than sixty years later , with the Empire admittedly gone and only too many ‘ works ’ closed down , but with little of eternity used up , the brow of every hill in England may be searched in vain for the sight of a plough team . |
| 11 | The Socialist government was attacked by the opposition for too much intervention and still too little decentralisation . |
| 12 | I set out a position which argues that there may be too much and also too little evidence for the existence of God to make religious belief a tenable option . |
| 13 | ‘ Most people in the health service suffer from the feeling there are far too many layers of authority above them and far too many constraints about what people can do when it comes to running their own unit better . |
| 14 | And far too many sex offenders are released from prison when experts know that they are likely to strike again . |
| 15 | The next characteristic of a switching-off organization is that there are far too many people and far too many layers so that each employee feels that he has little or no headroom . |
| 16 | But there were far too few new faces , and far too many head office honchos . |
| 17 | So it is obviously quite implausible to propose that sentence production involves selecting , from a set of pre-existing sentences , the one you want to produce , because there are far too many different possible thoughts one might want to convey , and far too many different ways of conveying each thought . |
| 18 | They have far too big an area to cover and far too many applications to deal with . |
| 19 | The public debate about political priorities focuses far too much on what we can do for today 's consumption and far too little about what we invest in the future . |
| 20 | It has imprudently striven to appeal far too much to the manufacturing and commercial interest and far too little to the landed interest . |
| 21 | Enright has pointed out with regard to media that ‘ too much attention has been given to the possibilities of the new media supplanting the book , and far too little to the ways in which each can and does supplement the other ’ . |
| 22 | His point is not that the other two legs are invulnerable , but that far too much of America 's political energy has gone into discussing ICBMs and far too little into submarines , cruise missiles , stealth bombers ( which could be used against targets other than the Soviet Union ) and especially command and control centres . |
| 23 | Apart from Henry , the direction of all the bowlers was poor and far too much was over-pitched . |
| 24 | Although Grant was the expert of the group , they both knew enough to realise that the equipment stacked around was sophisticated , and far too much for Titron if she had been but an ordinary container ship . |
| 25 | Despite this , less money is spent in direct support of our national squads , both men and women , than in many other less wealthy tennis nations , and far too much money is frittered away in areas that I do not believe are the LTA 's responsibility and , in some cases , this actually damages the cause of tennis in Britain . |
| 26 | ‘ I ca n't think what you 've got to cry about , ’ said my mother , managing to imply that she herself had far more to cry about than Lili and far too much strength of character to do so . |
| 27 | ‘ Atropine is confirmed , and far too much to have been a slight slip of the deadly nightshade . |
| 28 | It has far too much legislation and far too much centralisation . |
| 29 | But still too many are left loose . |
| 30 | ‘ There is good competition , but also too many cowboys , ’ he says . |