Example sentences of "too much to say " in BNC.
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| 1 | All three do their best under Penny Ciniewicz 's rather heavy-handed direction , but they can not beat a first play that has just got too much to say . |
| 2 | It is not too much to say that we entered the conference in the law and atmosphere of the 17th century and we came out with a fair prospect of 20th century conditions . ' |
| 3 | It is too much to say that ‘ ministers , uncertain about everything else , had at times found a refuge in social righteousness ’ and that ‘ Bunyan … might have said that social righteousness was his old village of Morality transformed , like Manchester , to a town , by the industrial revolution ’ . |
| 4 | It would be too much to say that by 1870 Paris had become a fragrant bower — few cities ever manage that — but it certainly was less odorous and pestilential than it had been . |
| 5 | John Paris , in his biography of Davy published in 1825 , wrote : ‘ I have been able to present to the world a complete history of those proceedings which have so happily led to discovery of which it is not too much to say that it is at once the pride of science , the triumph of humanity and the glory of the age in which we live . ’ |
| 6 | Indeed it is net too much to say that the traveller walking down the branching road becomes in the end an image of ‘ the Good ’ in Tolkien , and one opposed to the endless self-regarding circuits of the Ring . |
| 7 | Indeed it is not too much to say that the Inklings were preoccupied with them . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's not too much to say it 's the storm of the century , ’ Joe Friday , director of the National Weather Service , said . |
| 9 | An ’ you 're very small ; an' you have too much to say , so go to sleep . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ If anything goes wrong , sir , I do n't think we 'll be having too much to say to each other when we 're in vaporized orbit . ’ |
| 11 | It would be too much to say the West has abandoned that plan ; some people still think it can be implemented . |
| 12 | His emphasis on the " common style " suggests that he is no longer interested in talking to himself but to others , and Four Quartets is at one level an oratorical performance : it would not be too much to say that all of his previous work has led him to this point , where poetry is married with public exhortation . |
| 13 | Her life had been full of pain and perplexity ; it is not too much to say that her emotional needs had been fastened on a man whom she never properly understood , and that he in turn was baffled and then enraged by her insistent and neurotic demands upon him . |
| 14 | Indeed it would not be too much to say that neither woman ever really got over it ; a day before the wedding he had written to Mary Trevelyan , expressing the hope that she would remain on friendly terms both with him and his new wife , but the old intimacy had necessarily gone for ever . |
| 15 | Indeed , it is not too much to say that this is probably the single thing that " everyone know about Athenian democracy . |
| 16 | It is not too much to say that the quoted argument has the strength of this : We say it is probable that the spoon is under the napkin ; the relation of " being under " is therefore a relation of probability . |
| 17 | It is not too much to say that the probabilistic analyses must revise this into a belief that many effects are not made to happen . |
| 18 | Little tarts with too much make up and too much to say for themselves . |
| 19 | He told me in one of his more lucid states that he ca n't write because he 's got too much to say … ’ |
| 20 | In Billie Holiday 's 1936 recording of ‘ These Foolish Things ’ it is not too much to say that the melody is recomposed . |
| 21 | There was so much to say — there was too much to say . |
| 22 | It is not too much to say that , throughout the last three critical years in China , it is to Dr Morrison that the British public has looked from day to day for the earliest and most accurate intelligence concerning events in which the interests of this country have been so largely involved . ’ |
| 23 | In the library where Ianthe worked the approach of Christmas had made itself felt , though it would be too much to say that any particularly Christmas spirit or noticeable increase of goodwill could be discerned , even though Shirley had hung up a few coloured paper chains . |
| 24 | She said tersely , ‘ It seems to me that Adam has had far too much to say for himself . |
| 25 | It is not too much to say that this interpretation of what appears the plain meaning of section 4 of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act , 1974 , would make a farce out of the children 's hearing system . |
| 26 | Although it might be too much to say that Woodhead and colleagues have found the proverbial smoking gun that settles the issue of deep mantle recycling , they do seem at least to have found a gun . |
| 27 | Each was aware , in fact , that they had too much to say , rather than too little . |
| 28 | I do n't think it 's too much to say that erm , if they knew now what er , if they knew now what er , they know then what they know now , they 'd probably never have embarked upon er , upon the project . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's not too much to say it 's the storm of the century , ’ said Joe Friday , director of the National Weather Service . |
| 30 | Modern pressures have ensured that today 's youngsters have far too much to say for themselves and do not always display the respect for their elders which they should . |