Example sentences of "gave too " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thought the lectures far too many and that he gave too many lectures for his own good . |
| 2 | Major institutional investors felt the deal gave too much to Mr Ritblat , his family and British Land management — New British Land was to be paid £15million a year in management charges for the first three years , coming down to £10million as properties were sold . |
| 3 | From the other flank , Michael Foot thought plans for reform gave too great a power of patronage to the prime minister and mocked the very idea of a representative democracy . |
| 4 | This sort of nonsense could have been fairly innocuous had it not been for the fact that under Napoleon I , the frequent employment of courtiers in great and influential offices of state had led to a gradual isolation of the Emperor , which in turn gave too much power to those close to the throne , many of whom , it should be noted , actively worked against him in the last years of the reign . |
| 5 | It has been said that he gave too much of himself in his idealistic way , and that the ‘ political football ’ aspects of the CBC in eastern Canada , where he was finally transferred , caused a breakdown in health and his early retirement . |
| 6 | The Builder commented that the submission date of 1st February , 1857 gave too short a time and that it was a mistake to divide the competition into three parts . |
| 7 | The Department 's objection , on the grounds that this would delay the road 's completion by two years , was over-ruled ; the resulting hold-up is self-inflicted as the DoT gave too little thought to the damaging effects of the original scheme . |
| 8 | The measure met the qualified support of Labour in Parliament who argued , as always and reasonably enough , that the scheme gave too little . |
| 9 | ‘ There are many at First Level — even among the Hung Mao — who feel we gave too much ; were too timid in our dealings with the Dispersionists . |
| 10 | ’ Would we be thrown out if we gave too much exposure to a rebel like Harrison , or if we showed the true extent of the logging ? |
| 11 | It gave too much away . |
| 12 | On June 10 US District Judge Edward N. Cahn ruled that the use of nomination by party officials , rather than a primary , deprived voters of their right to participate " at all stages of the electoral process " and gave too much control to party activists . |