Example sentences of "[is] [verb] too [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most common beginner 's mistake is to sit too far aft in the boat and that causes a great wrist a tail of to come up from the trunk . |
| 2 | The attraction of nearly £2 million in prize-money and nine months of travelling throughout Europe is proving too strong for many , and the Tour receives dozens of telephone calls and letters from girls wanting to join the paid ranks . |
| 3 | If the ball is resting too high , preventing the cistern refilling , unscrew the ball and screw the Ball Arm Extension on to the valve arm . |
| 4 | Where the risk is considered too serious for the children to remain in their family , they have a duty to provide alternative care , in foster homes or other forms of residential care ( and there is a duty to monitor children 's safety and well-being in these situations also ) . |
| 5 | Perhaps this is considered too expensive , but it is hard to believe that 240 doctors can be trained at no capital cost , even if there is head space at medical schools . |
| 6 | But just what is considered too hairy in one society may be perfectly OK in another . |
| 7 | Doug Lawson , principal officer for children 's services at Cheshire County Council says Appleton House is considered too large and too institutional to continue as a children 's home . |
| 8 | If you plan to stay where you are , the likelihood is that at some point you will want to make some changes or improvements : install central heating , insulate the loft , modernise the kitchen or perhaps convert part of the house to a granny flat for an elderly parent who is becoming too frail to live alone . |
| 9 | If our body is becoming too warm — through sunbathing , for example — then the air is a ‘ pleasant breeze' ; if it is tending to be rather cool — seated in wintertime — then the air is a ‘ draught ’ . |
| 10 | But it 's also fears that the Party itself is becoming too radical too , they always want to control two elements and I mean on the last page , point number sixteen it says that how that erm tt that how that the Communist Party members ought to refrain from securing undue benefits by taking advantage of their leading position . |
| 11 | The result is becoming too impenetrable to be viewed as anything but a plot against the public . |
| 12 | Kinnock 's weakness , he riposted thoughtfully , may be that he is becoming too autocratic . |
| 13 | and what I concern myself with now is that this sort of thing is becoming too obvious in the area , this kind of development , this kind of an infringement in villages , looking for , somebody 's got to make a stand against it , er and I hope that we shall in this Parish Council |
| 14 | Times are changing and marketing agencies are now briefing their company-clients about the ‘ grey consumer ’ , whose custom is becoming too valuable to be ignored . |
| 15 | When he plays Mowgli , Karim 's skin is deemed too pallid and he is forced to wear black-and-white minstrel greasepaint ; cast as a downtrodden immigrant in his next part , he caricatures Changez , his fat , idle and ugly cousin-in-law , who arrives from India halfway through the novel . |
| 16 | ‘ E 's gettin' too big fer 'is boots , demandin' this an' that every time 'e enters the 'ouse . |
| 17 | The prime minister 's critics say all this is happening too late ; that he should have regrouped last autumn , and that the Canadian Titanic may founder even while the ministers switch deckchairs . |
| 18 | CO ON sock and frilly knicker specialist Sherwood Group ( steady at 760p and now capitalised at £140m ) is looking too big for the unlisted securities market and a move up to the main market may well accompany Tuesday 's year-end profits . |
| 19 | ‘ He is made too free of the house , ’ muttered Paul , feeling he must put in his word . |
| 20 | You know , she 's living too wild a life ! |
| 21 | But , while the legislators ponder on ‘ the rights and freedoms of the individual ’ ( is that the right to throw your Alsatian out onto the motorway because he 's grown too big to handle ? ) we are all left to contemplate statistics like 1000 stray dogs put down daily by the RSPCA , or 58,000 road accidents ( many involving death and serious injury ) caused by stray dogs . |
| 22 | ‘ She 's gotten too grand for us , ’ Aunt Sarah said . |
| 23 | Yes he 's built a business up and I 'm not denying him that er or anything at all , But somehow now er I do n't know whether the wheel is turning too fast for him to co keep up with it or whether it 's erm oh never mind the erm the industry of the locality , providing the money stakes a I know every business has got to pay for itself and that we we 're not , If this quarry was on the down grade and er er somebody had come to us said , look unless you take a drop in your wages er we ca n't survive that would be a different issue altogether . |
| 24 | And whether the wheel is turning too fast for them to cope with it somewhere along the line they 've lost control any and there 's still I 'm told young many a time a good shop steward and a good management should be a good team together , but erm unless they can work in harmony you know it 's no good . |
| 25 | The personal desktop computer is growing too powerful for stand-alone desktop use . |
| 26 | Public opinion is growing too large for the channels that it has been accustomed to run through . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ The whole programme is growing too large . |
| 28 | If this is thought too tame , a lively and amusing party can be held at home or in a room at a sports club along the lines of a fancy dress party , again with humorous speeches . |
| 29 | The United States feels that it is shouldering too heavy a defence burden in Europe , whilst Europe has increasingly become an economic rival of the United States ; Europeans resent their separate defence and economic dependence on the United States , but have been slow to recognize their de facto commitment to an unrealistic and arbitrary divide between economic and strategic policies . |
| 30 | Except in the case of Mary of Guise , however , it is going too far to see this as a general affirmation of enthusiasm for the Auld Alliance , and total alienation from England , or as a means of eradicating Protestantism . |