Example sentences of "[verb] to be too [adj] " in BNC.

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1 You wo n't need to be too mobile just yet . ’
2 They do not need to be too smart ; in fact , it is better if they do look rapidly produced , in response to an immediate threat .
3 The ultimate holding company function will highlight related companies within groups and identify companies which , while they appear to be too small to do the deal , may be able to do so with the support of their holding company .
4 Investments that appear to be too good to be true often are .
5 If Les Negresses Vertes tend to jostle on the stage like animals being herded down a narrow street , it is partly because there are so many of them ( 11 , when all the strays are rounded up ) , but also because , even as the show begins , several key members appear to be too drunk to be capable of motion in a straight line .
6 This is the second year in a row that the Opposition leader has claimed to be too busy to talk to the boisterous crew .
7 So it 's not necessarily that one has to be too critical of all the individual items in the way that some people have .
8 The ‘ taste and decency ’ clauses of the BBC and ITA charters are considered to be too weak by the moral tendency of the Conservative Party .
9 She eventually died after 65 weeks of successful treatment , with severe cachexia and large bowel obstruction. at the end , her general condition was considered to be too poor to justify a defunctioning colostomy .
10 Often the volume of references and information produced by online services is considered to be too great and this ‘ sea of information ’ is confusing to the user .
11 The risk of ethnic conflict in Bosnia-Hercegovina was considered to be too great for that republic to qualify for EC recognition .
12 So do cases where the trauma may be considered to be too much for the children .
13 This is due to the very limited life time of the adsorbent in this situation and the cost of its replacement is considered to be too high .
14 They were interested , but their fees were considered to be too high .
15 This was bought-in at £6 million at Christie 's on 15 April , largely because the estimate was considered to be too high for what one expert commented was ‘ an early , dark , Leyden-period picture , which is at variance with what people want and expect in Rembrandt .
16 Also the Transport Authority was expressly empowered to require the Executive to provide a service at a cost the Executive considered to be too high , so long as the Transport Authority provided the necessary additional cost .
17 It appears that changes in the card catalogues were considered to be too difficult and costly to implement .
18 The problem is that Taurus tried to be too nice to everyone and did n't tread too hard on the banks ’ toes . ’
19 The risks involved in displeasing the company were deemed to be too great .
20 It was then necessary to determine the ’ neighbourhood size ’ around each word , i.e. the limit beyond which words are deemed to be too far apart to be considered as neighbours .
21 These arguments have been used to justify the continued operation of branch railway lines and low productivity coal pits , where the costs of closure to the local economy were deemed to be too high , even if the operations themselves were unviable .
22 Thrifts were banned by law from investing in equities which were deemed to be too risky .
23 Insiders in the Cope camp claim that the 34-year-old singer was deemed to be too old and uncommercial by Island .
24 Almost a quarter of the world 's population — 1.2 billion people — were reckoned to be too poor to meet their most basic needs for food , clothing and shelter .
25 The increase was even felt to be too great : in 1964 , when British groups reached 212 , it was decided to slow down the growth in the UK — not to ‘ act upon the ephemeral enthusiasms of an odd individual ’ , but to go for quality .
26 The Department of Defense refused further co-operation , the risk of a hostile audience reception being felt to be too great , and there was perceived to be an indifference to the war created by television news saturation .
27 The following night , Vega was prepared to go on but it was decided that since the crowd seemed even more hyper than the previous evening , the risk of damage to singer and gear was felt to be too great .
28 The following night , Vega was prepared to go on but it was decided that since the crowd seemed even more hyper than the previous evening , the risk of damage to singer and gear was felt to be too great .
29 Elderly men clammed up when Barley asked questions in the presence of his assistant , who was felt to be too young ; men rushed howling from the room when he casually asked about circumcision in a sister 's presence .
30 To the Nuer , god appears both as lofty and remote , though omnipotent , while sometimes approachable and near-at-hand : indeed on some occasions he is felt to be too close for comfort and is earnestly beseeched to withdraw his presence and leave his people in peace .
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