Example sentences of "far too " in BNC.
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| 1 | I feel that this sentence is far too harsh . |
| 2 | Proponents of the changes did , however , find the prognostications of their adversaries far too pessimistic and polemical . |
| 3 | I was born too late and I discovered what I wanted to do too late and what I did I did too late and my death is about to come far too late . |
| 4 | Not only is it little consolation , he wrote , it is actually a further cause for despair , for it only shows that everything is far too late , that the glass was a dream of lateness and the work on the glass was a fantasy of lateness and the belief in the glass was the madness of one who has lost all sense of the meaning of lateness . |
| 5 | Rarely is the customer consulted ; in far too many cases the regular is a powerless bystander as his or her pub is transformed by identikit ‘ Victoriana ’ . |
| 6 | An example of this is when it refers to ‘ food business operators ’ which , according to Mr Knowles , is unspecific and far too general a definition . |
| 7 | I smiled a smile that was meant to signify interest in this excursion , but Carla was far too intelligent to believe it showed anything of the sort . |
| 8 | He shared his pupils ' impatience with the history side but he was far too polite ever to express this prejudice in my presence — and he was pleased that there was somebody else in the department who was prepared to cover that part of the teaching . |
| 9 | I was too anxious — far too anxious — and this put my interviewers on their guard . |
| 10 | The dreaded gardeners ' garters , of Phalaris arundinacea ‘ Picta ’ manages to creep all over the place but is far too lovely a plant to write off just for that reason . |
| 11 | He seems completely secure in the knowledge that I 'm far too soppy to do him any harm . |
| 12 | A few pilots manage to stall and spin in ; some fly into the ground during their final turn ; many make such bad landings that they damage their glider ; and , finally , far too many run into other gliders or obstructions during take-offs and landings . |
| 13 | Far too often with a low cable break , the pilot goes for the airbrakes when there is a mile of field ahead and no hurry whatsoever . |
| 14 | The actual speed at the time is usually far too slow to allow for any use of the airbrakes , but there is plenty of room ahead for a safe landing . |
| 15 | Usually these situations arise from running out of height on the circuit , but they can also arise from arriving back far too high and by badly planned manoeuvring in an attempt to correct that kind of position . |
| 16 | Many field landing accidents occur because the initial decision to choose a field is left far too late . |
| 17 | If there really are no suitable fields within range , then you have left the choice far too late and you must choose the best you can . |
| 18 | It is surprisingly easy to make the circuit and base leg far too close to the field , particularly if the surrounding countryside is rough and unlandable . |
| 19 | If it becomes obvious during the base leg or final turn that you are far too high to be able to get down in the chosen field , it is often possible to make an S-turn to use up some of the height . |
| 20 | Experience in many hundreds of practise field selections and approaches in a motor glider show the most common faults to be : leaving the choice of field far too late , and poor planning and judgement of the circuit and approach . |
| 21 | Slopes which are visible from a thousand feet looking straight down from above are far too steep for an easy or safe landing . |
| 22 | Keeping far too close to the field |
| 23 | Unless this is quickly controlled , in a few seconds the glider can be far too high above the towplane . |
| 24 | Then , when the glider pilot recognises he is far too low , any quick movement to regain position takes the glider up through the same wind gradient , causing a sudden surge of speed and producing an unexpected and possibly uncontrollable gain of height . |
| 25 | It is an important skill because even experienced pilots do occasionally make approaches which are far too high and which can be redeemed if they can side-slip quickly and accurately . |
| 26 | ‘ You treat her far too well , darling . |
| 27 | Not at all — the price was too good — MacDonald 's factor was far too busy agreeing a price for the young folk that he sold to the Carolina merchants . |
| 28 | Oh no — never — the bribe was far too great to refuse — they ran a cordon round the Green and delivered over their own folk to the men-of-war . |
| 29 | But a well-built version cost over £100 , and one at about £50 seemed far too rickety . |
| 30 | The Dobermann really came into its own as a domestic dog in the 1980s and , subsequently , far too many were bred . |