Example sentences of "become too powerful " in BNC.
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| 1 | He massively reorganized the empire on a military basis , splitting provinces to prevent ambitious governors from becoming too powerful , attempting to control inflation by fixing prices by edict ( and thereby driving goods off the market ) . |
| 2 | Disposition of territory and offices , public works , enforced residence in Edo , were only some of the means used to prevent daimyo from becoming too powerful . |
| 3 | Today the dominant question is whether a country that can draw on the manpower and technology of two advanced industrial countries could become too powerful to be accommodated inside the European Community where the leading nations , Britain , France and Italy , would have populations only half the size of a new Germany . |
| 4 | Strains of that thinking can be seen today in France 's wish that the commission and the parliament should not become too powerful . |
| 5 | Fenna had become too powerful . |
| 6 | A Gallup poll in this newspaper showed that 84 per cent of the population felt the unions had become too powerful . |
| 7 | R. S. Wood and his colleagues saw a further advantage in a firm initiative by the Board : they looked wistfully back to the days of central power as exercised by Morant in the shadow of the 1902 Act , and believed that the Local Education Authorities created by that Act had become too powerful . |
| 8 | One solution could be to double notes at the octave , but this leads to poor results , as doubled notes become too powerful and upset the chordal equilibrium . |