Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] too [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robyn saw for the first time that Melissa was a little drunk ; her eyes had that bright , fixed look , and her words were pronounced with the extra care of someone who had consumed rather too much alcohol . |
| 2 | Macaulay was attributing rather too much blame to Frederick II of Prussia when he wrote ‘ in order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend , black men fought on the coast of Coromandel , and red men scalped each other by the Great Lakes of North America . ’ |
| 3 | Consumerism has all too evident limits . |
| 4 | There is a real element of truth in it if we conclude , as I think we must , that in those who have failed to come to terms with the demands of a civilized existence any representative of that existence can be seen as an incitement to protest , especially if , as in the case of the police , that representative has only too obvious a. resemblance to the forbidding father of early childhood with whom the individual has not come to terms because of chronic irresolution of the Oedipal dilemma . |
| 5 | ‘ You place far too much importance on this bond that 's supposed to exist between twins . ’ |
| 6 | Sometimes materials are just not available or too expensive to afford , but often curriculum panels , drawing on experiences from college demonstration schools and materially rich urban contexts , place far too great reliance on the collection and use of ‘ waste ’ materials or require large amounts of apparatus to be made by teachers . |
| 7 | Every appointment seems to be an outrageous shot in the dark , either because the person appointed has no experience , or because he has far too much experience , having been fired from 43 other clubs ( three times from QPR ) . |
| 8 | Anyhow , I think that Hatherby woman has far too much influence on Constance . ’ |
| 9 | It has far too much legislation and far too much centralisation . |
| 10 | In such a context , therefore , it comes as less of a surprise to find Sidney Webb actually advocating a cut in the wages of working youths — in evidence before the 1909 Royal Commission on the Poor Laws , of all places — so that ‘ the youth , who now has even too much pocket-money , and gets , therefore , too soon independent of home , and too easily led into evil courses ’ could be brought down a peg or two . |
| 11 | They chose to concentrate on Somerville and were surprised but satisfied to find almost too many activities to report . |
| 12 | It can give away too much profit . |
| 13 | In her years in the brothels in Dublin , she had seen far too many girls with their bodies twisted and scarred by the constricting corsets . |
| 14 | ‘ Do n't let your heart rule your head , Miss Morgan , ’ he said , ‘ Craig is a fine chap , a loyal friend but he has neglected the business and paid rather too much attention to the worldly pleasures instead , so be warned . ’ |
| 15 | Unfortunately , The Darkside have yet to cultivate the same trick , plying a sulky , introverted bedsit groove than which shows altogether too much reverence to an image of Lou Reed on downers . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , The Darkside have yet to cultivate the same trick , plying a sulky , introverted bedsit groove than which shows altogether too much reverence to an image of Lou Reed on downers . |
| 17 | In the majority of cases , the architect will design a building , paying perhaps too little regard to its functional capabilities and concentrating instead on its aesthetic appearance . |
| 18 | And most of the time they had been together , he had had far too much control . |
| 19 | I 'd dressed in my long dress , eaten breakfast bedu fashion , discussed the children 's health with the Sheikha over coffee — the Youngest Son had had far too many headaches and his usual teasing and joking had n't been seen for days . |
| 20 | You 've got far too much integrity . ’ |
| 21 | Easy calving is a characteristic of the breed , in that the cows have one of the largest ratios of pelvic area to bodyweight ; they give almost too much milk for single suckling and are excellent mothers . |
| 22 | They 've got almost too much back talent from which to choose a side to play Italy at Cardiff on October 7 . |
| 23 | Obviously a writer who is happy with ‘ super-refined ’ ( elsewhere he says that Eliot 's ‘ Portrait of a Lady ’ is ‘ extraordinarily sensitized ’ ) is not a critic worth pausing on for long ; and yet when Untermeyer cites all too patent imitations of Eliot 's ‘ Sweeney Among the Nightingales ’ in quatrains by Osbert Sitwell and Herbert Read and Robert Nichols , one can see good reason for him to think that Eliot s reputation , achieved so fast on such a slender body of work , was no more than modish . |
| 24 | Well , he did not want to give away too much ground at the start . |
| 25 | That all takes far too much time . |
| 26 | All this takes far too much time . |
| 27 | The reason for MI5 's inefficiency is that it wastes far too much time and resources chasing after the wrong sort of people who it believes to be subversive , while real enemies of the state are able to go on spying undetected for decades . |
| 28 | Recently Le Gros Clark ( 1957 ) criticized the over-confidence of earlier anthropologists who were often prepared to draw far too many conclusions from a single specimen . |
| 29 | Although many of the leading manufacturers , including SmithKline Beecham , have changed the formula of their drinks in the last few years so that they contain less sugar , dentists say they 're still getting far too many cases of two , three and four-year-olds with decaying milk teeth . |
| 30 | Most of them get far too much pocket money . ’ |