Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] too [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think also we ought to be guarded about too much detailed discussion of travel distances , we are talking here at most of travel distances of between six and ten miles , in keeping with the policy , erm it seems to me that erm if we we spend too much time on trying to determine whether six or ten miles distant , is is there any great significance in terms of the global environment it would be at least an unproved case , one way or the other , but also there seems to me to be a clear conflict in those who are trying to say that the new settlement proposal falls because not large enough of a site is being proposed , one way and another . |
| 2 | We 've come through too much to get stopped here . ’ |
| 3 | Are people not to be trusted with too much knowledge of themselves ? |
| 4 | As firmly as you may resolve to leave the sweet foods alone , when the " munchies " arrive , your resistance is often overwhelmed without too much difficulty . |
| 5 | Ideally , in the interests of spontaneity , the normal lighting , whether artificial or daylight , will be adequate or can be supplemented without too much fuss . |
| 6 | No doubt my prejudices are coloured by having looked at too much epicontinental sediment and not enough oceanic , but I must plead in my defence that this is the nature of the stratigraphical record on the continents anyway . |
| 7 | Also , the performance of Ivor Novello as the impoverished hero whose charming vulnerability wins the hearts of all the girls , as well as that of a bored woman surrounded by too much luxury , and Cutts 's mobile camerawork , put it in another class . |
| 8 | In this way you will not be overwhelmed by too many gaps and can build on your experience one stage at a time . |
| 9 | Jessica , when she arrived , was overwhelmed by too many things , lost in too many emotions , to even want to make love . |
| 10 | However , Paige , suddenly overwhelmed by too much emotion , would n't budge a step until she had told him why she was there . |
| 11 | The phrase ‘ Boffin ’ comes from Charles Dickens ' character who was ‘ too generous — possessed of too much clemency — too good to persons ’ and not because of a back-room researcher image . |
| 12 | ‘ Women today are presented with too many choices , not enough choices . |
| 13 | My assistant has explained how on this particular occasion things were done in too much of a rush because of other pressures . |
| 14 | There was a widespread feeling as early as the 1840s that the judicial system suffered from too much technicality and formality . |
| 15 | ‘ In the very early days I looked at the market and decided one of the things I wanted to do was to build a big PR company because the market suffered from too many small companies . |
| 16 | Even more , the thesis that the economy has suffered from too few producers in the manufacturing sector rings very hollow indeed [ Kaldor , 1966 , 1968 , 1975 ] . |
| 17 | What is new is that we have moved from too few qualified nurses coming to work in the operating theatres , to not enough people entering nursing . |
| 18 | To land on a spot consistently by this method , the round out and early part of the float must be made without too much excess speed and with less than full airbrake . |
| 19 | Now here he was in Simanggang with his mosquito nets , journals , chronometers , compasses , barometer , medicine cabinet , guns and one offspring , out to cure himself or discover a New Way of Thought , whichever would cause most trouble in a world already tormented by too much belief . |
| 20 | It was done by too many people . |
| 21 | The rules are still valid and the libretto of any ballet neglecting them often fails to hold the attention of its audience because the content has been weakened by too many irrelevances . |
| 22 | Her only fault was that she was too saintly , and was thus exploited by too many people , out of greed and lack of consideration for a woman whose life was one of toil and devotion to her family . |
| 23 | Bob Roberts is also the first UK film in years to ‘ fail ’ for being stuffed with too many ideas , marking Robbins as a fresh and major talent . |
| 24 | The roll-call of young hopefuls looked to be crammed with too many no-hopers , too many Sheffield-based bands who 'd failed to progress from local lustre to national notoriety . |
| 25 | The Government later backed advice that babies should be put on their backs to sleep and not be overheated by too many blankets . |
| 26 | The Government later backed advice that babies be put on their backs to sleep and not overheated by too many blankets . |
| 27 | Abdominal pain and diarrhoea can also be produced by too much caffeine , and in children it can produce hyperactive behaviour . |
| 28 | A congregation must not be baffled by obscurity , but it must not be patronised by too much informality either . |
| 29 | Tucked into too much turkey ? |
| 30 | Owen brought them within a quarter of an hour , grave-faced both , and heavy-eyed from nights broken with too much thinking of Harry . |