Example sentences of "[be] too [adv] [vb pp] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Oliver is sorry to hear that ; but would he not be too smartly dressed to look like a money-lender ? |
| 2 | Given the lack of precision , it would not be too far fetched to claim that there is an element of post hoc rationalization in some of the definitions of the public service broadcasting notion . |
| 3 | A pamphleteer opposing a " too generous " Poor Law in 1786 , noting that paupers were too easily allowed to build cottages on the waste and install themselves to become eventual burdens on the rates , remarked , " Happily the justices of the peace have no legal authority to augment the number of our cottages . |
| 4 | They either had too few subjects , too short a treatment , lack of double-blind methods or the subjects were institutionalised and demented geriatrics who were too far gone to show any psychological changes . |
| 5 | This council , in which Massud accepted a major role , rejected Hezb-e Islami plans to attack Kabul later in October , arguing that the mujaheddin were too lightly armed to take Kabul and that the fierce rocket attacks favoured by Hekmatyar would kill civilians as well as soldiers . |
| 6 | They were not Harry 's creation : they were too recently generated to have been from him . |
| 7 | Megarry V-C , in Marshall ( Thomas ) ( Exports ) v Guinle [ 1979 ] Ch 227 set out a test of four elements which is most helpful for determining whether the information is too widely known to retain the necessary quality of confidence . |
| 8 | I think there 's too much attached to age . |
| 9 | It seems that the children have been too easily persuaded to sell their land and houses , for what matters in a drama like this is not that the children should act out what actually happened in real life , but that it should open up and help them understand the dilemmas of industrialisation . |
| 10 | The effect upon the family of extra-familial sexual activity on the part of a parent are too widely known and have been too much discussed to need much elaboration here . |
| 11 | She 'd have been too far gone to hear . |
| 12 | Personal loans and credit card facilities are too well known to require detailed comment here . |
| 13 | If any adventurer enters , the Skeletons writhe around , snapping their slack jawbones eagerly , but they are too firmly manacled to escape . |
| 14 | Interpretations of normalisation are too easily made to fit with long-established assumptions and practice . |
| 15 | Public sector higher education institutions ( such as polytechnics ) have a similar , though not identical hierarchy of posts , but they are too recently established to have acquired the more colourful historic positions and titles of the universities . |
| 16 | People at the USTA and LTA are too far removed to know what is really required — Glenn William |
| 17 | He was too well schooled to betray emotion . |
| 18 | She was too well trained to take it out on Florence and she finished milking her , but she scowled as she lifted the heavy pails and carried them outside , lifting them into the water trough to cool . |
| 19 | Perhaps the leader was too badly hurt to give orders … |
| 20 | Gorbad was too badly hurt to mount a vigorous pursuit , and many gallant knights were able to escape including the badly wounded Count of Wissenland . |
| 21 | In the United States this principle has the status of a constitutional principle , and the Supreme Court has on many occasions overturned criminal convictions because the supposed crime was too vaguely defined to give the necessary notice . |
| 22 | It was too solidly built to have suffered serious damage . |
| 23 | He was too far gone to give a damn about anything . |
| 24 | The costs were escalating alarmingly but he felt that he was too far committed to stop . |
| 25 | To pump it out a new water-wheel was required , suggesting that the old Bonsor East Shaft wheel was too far decayed to repair , or missing altogether . |