Example sentences of "[is] [v-ing] too [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE directors of a small Borders textile business , which has landed its largest order , from Japan , claim that the region 's local enterprise company is devoting too many of its resources to large firms . |
| 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 | However , you will also learn that a major cause of sexual dissatisfaction is allowing too little time for foreplay . |
| 5 | From society 's viewpoint the industry is producing too little . |
| 6 | Factory farming of salmon is producing too many fish for too small a market . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The result is becoming too impenetrable to be viewed as anything but a plot against the public . |
| 11 | Kinnock 's weakness , he riposted thoughtfully , may be that he is becoming too autocratic . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ E 's gettin' too big fer 'is boots , demandin' this an' that every time 'e enters the 'ouse . |
| 15 | ‘ This left arm 's aching too much , I 'll have to do one . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Perhaps an increase in friction in the system is absorbing too much energy . |
| 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 | The tax on films is causing too few films to be produced . |
| 20 | You know , she 's living too wild a life ! |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It says Morland is paying too much for the new pubs and that it 's ’ the latest in a series of flawed actions by an increasingly desperate board . ’ |
| 24 | It says Morland is paying too much for the new pubs and that it 's ’ the latest in a series of flawed actions by an increasingly desperate board . ’ |
| 25 | Unfortunately , the SPD , like Labour , has been nervous in calling for a complete recasting of public financing and altering both tax and expenditure profiles to fit with a post-cold war world while attempting to relate to an electorate that believes it is paying too many direct and indirect taxes as well as ever-rising social security and health insurance payments . |
| 26 | The personal desktop computer is growing too powerful for stand-alone desktop use . |
| 27 | Public opinion is growing too large for the channels that it has been accustomed to run through . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ The whole programme is growing too large . |
| 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 | I 'm scared of that because the government is selling too many drugs now . |