Example sentences of "[prep] too [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | RETURNED to London after too long an absence , Le Cirque Imaginaire is back until 6 March in the Riverside Studios where it made its UK debut many years ago . |
| 2 | Organisers of the event , to be held here in July , have banned a team for being of too high a standard . |
| 3 | Do n't be tempted to use wire of too high a rating for the circuit , and NEVER use any other metallic object to rewire a fuse . |
| 4 | 2 ) There is no risk of aggravation from the selection of too high a potency |
| 5 | The Consul-General usually steered clear of too direct an involvement in Egyptian policing . |
| 6 | All the quality papers led with an assessment of Too Long a Winter , and marvelled at the astonishing life led by this old lady with the gleaming white hair in that frozen lonely Yorkshire dale . |
| 7 | Hannah went too , and the cameras followed Mrs Field 's forthright manner , allied to a distinct sense of humour and a stentorian voice , made a deep impression on the director and his crew — and on the television critics of the major newspapers , to judge by the reviews published the day after the first of many transmissions of Too Long a Winter . |
| 8 | Mrs Field demonstrates her technique with the hunting horn during the filming of Too Long a Winter in 1972 ( Courtesy of Yorkshire Television ) |
| 9 | Olive 's spirit and capacity to command never diminished Apparently , she hugely enjoyed her part in the filming of Too Long a Winter and liked the programme . |
| 10 | The danger for the Government is that it may all come just a bit too late to expunge the memories of our current travails and of too long a period of neglect for the supply-side of the economy to respond . |
| 11 | It is possible to start with 1.2A after 1.1Z , but this is symptomatic of too long a period between approvals . |
| 12 | In some cases , for example , to keep within trimmed budgets , Boards had to install mains of too low a capacity to accommodate reasonable expectations of future load growth ( causing greater expense later on ) ; they also retained old vehicles and offices with excessively high running costs to save on capital expenditure . |
| 13 | Indeed many advertisers , fearful of too close a relationship with Oz and It , dismissive — or completely ignorant — of Time Out , but wishing for a way into a market that the then flagging Melody Maker and NME were failing to tap , seemed optimistic about the prospects for a new alternative British music paper . |
| 14 | From its first meeting it was also identified with the anti-slavery movement and this meant that it did not establish itself in America , where many religious leaders were wary of too close an identification with such a divisive issue . |
| 15 | The danger of too close an association between church and dance music is the subject of the humorous short story ‘ Absent-mindedness in a parish choir ’ . |
| 16 | In fact , modern biblical scholars concur that the letter ascribed to Jude is of too late a date to have been written by any contemporary of Jesus . |
| 17 | Place names change over the years , in some cases quite substantially , and Watkins warned against too easy an acceptance of a name at face value . |
| 18 | Our failure to show architectural deformity , lamina propria swelling , or neutrophilic infiltrates cautions against too ready an acceptance of the gluten induced proctitis as a major contributor to diarrhoea . |
| 19 | Using lead/acid or nickel/iron cells a range of 100 kilometres between rechargings can not be exceeded without using batteries with too high a weight as a ratio to total vehicle weight . |
| 20 | Problems caused by using fuel with too low an octane are considerably more real than Michael Fletcher ( Letters , 14 April , p 103 ) and many others appear to appreciate . |
| 21 | We 'd come gently up and down hill , but not much further on the ground fell away abruptly , according to the map 's contour lines , with too hard a climb on the return . |
| 22 | Melanie knew she was unreasonable , that empty rooms and quiet beds lay all around her , but the fright was still there and her scared feet pattered with too loud a noise , waking echoes . |
| 23 | Verbal presentations often fail because the speaker tries to cram too much into too short a time , or goes on for far too long . |
| 24 | Some athletes will die when over-stimulation and over-exertion get into too tight a spiral , but since when did death deter sports fans ? |
| 25 | Their bodies require more careful maintenance to keep functioning , and to some extent they have to protect themselves from too deep an involvement in the problems of others as their own emotions become more frail . |
| 26 | The following morning , Arty was taken by ambulance to the huge Victorian red-brick pile on the edge of town — a massive structure set well back in the fields and surrounded by a high wall to protect the sensibilities of the sane from too close a confrontation with one of society 's more disagreeable problems . |
| 27 | He was propped on one elbow beside her , the width of the picnic hamper giving her an illusion of safety from too close an intimacy . |
| 28 | Ditches old and new kept the new arrivals from too close an approach to the massive town walls , but , to be sure , this also applied in reverse ; the enemy were just out of range of Berwick 's cannon . |
| 29 | The result was another memorable moment in Too Long a Winter . |
| 30 | A lot of people still remember Her Ladyship , the little white cow which was featured such a lot in Too Long a Winter , and so do I , of course . |