Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] too [adj] " 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 | Because of the delicacy of the pigments and potential damage if exposed for too long to light , the papyrus will not be on continuous show . |
| 3 | We 've come through too much to get stopped here . ’ |
| 4 | Are people not to be trusted with too much knowledge of themselves ? |
| 5 | Mine varied from too large to too small but I was encouraged by the laughter of the women around me and their urging me on with ‘ good , good ’ or ‘ work , work ’ . |
| 6 | He said that was because he had come in too late . |
| 7 | The Wednesday result should n't be considered in too bad a light . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Ideally , in the interests of spontaneity , the normal lighting , whether artificial or daylight , will be adequate or can be supplemented without too much fuss . |
| 10 | Even Abraham Farrar , pointed out by oralists as the most exalted example of their method of teaching , showed concern that oralism was being carried to too great an extreme at the expense of education but this concern fell on ‘ deaf ’ ears of those in teaching establishments though perhaps not that of Dr. Eichholz the Government inspector for the overseeing of deaf education , as the two extracts opposite taken from the logbook of the Hugh Bell School , Middlesbrough , show . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In this way you will not be overwhelmed by too many gaps and can build on your experience one stage at a time . |
| 14 | Jessica , when she arrived , was overwhelmed by too many things , lost in too many emotions , to even want to make love . |
| 15 | However , Paige , suddenly overwhelmed by too much emotion , would n't budge a step until she had told him why she was there . |
| 16 | It is clear that the choice of signs for comparison will affect the results of such an exercise ; a balance must be sought between too small a number and too great . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ Women today are presented with too many choices , not enough choices . |
| 19 | Like Nikos , Mahmoud did not wish to be pushed into too firm religious characterization . |
| 20 | My assistant has explained how on this particular occasion things were done in too much of a rush because of other pressures . |
| 21 | The one hundred and fifty minutes has its entertaining chunks but Little Big Man too self-consciously views the past from a modern standpoint ( there is even a gay Red Indian and bluesy music ) , and the demystification of legends , such as Custer , is done in too simplistic a manner , a process Penn had begun in The Left-Handed Gun . |
| 22 | There was a widespread feeling as early as the 1840s that the judicial system suffered from too much technicality and formality . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 24 | 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 ] . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Honeysuckle likes its feet in the shade and head in the sunshine ; grown in too sunny or too warm a place , it becomes infested with greenfly , blackfly , caterpillars and red spider mite . |
| 27 | It does n't have to happen but it is a disease which is n't noticed until too late . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It was done by too many people . |