Example sentences of "too [adj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some think the agencies ' analysts risk becoming too friendly with the companies they rate . |
| 2 | The hexagram represents a beam that is thick and heavy in the middle but too weak at the ends . |
| 3 | We know that the immune system in that disease produces immunoglobulins ( which are antibodies , in the spinal fluid , which is the fluid surrounding the brain and spinal chord ) product antibodies there in the way that normal people do not , and there 's evidence too that around the areas of damaged insulation in the central nervous system , which is the characteristic abnormality or lesion in this condition , there are cells that are known to be committed to making antibody , or to aiding the production of antibody . |
| 4 | Generally , if you keep an open mind , and do not become too engrossed in the technicalities , you will pick up danger signals fairly quickly , should they come your way . |
| 5 | These sentiments were to prove too rich for the Whigs and Liberals who were predominant in the mid nineteenth century . |
| 6 | Tastes almost too rich with the spices and brandy . |
| 7 | After almost four hours of play , the Meteors proved too strong for the visitors , running out winners 18 — 8 … the Meteors well and truly making a home run . |
| 8 | YARM AA delegates enjoyed rod-bending action on a private carp lake near Croft as several heavy weights proved too strong for the anglers . |
| 9 | Take a lady of slight build who is not too strong in the hands . |
| 10 | In the seventh bar the bottom A ♭ of the chord has , unfortunately , to be omitted , being too low for the bassoons . |
| 11 | Check that the saddle fits correctly and is neither too low on the withers or spine . |
| 12 | The shepherd ‘ pulls ’ the wool from his ‘ pretty lambs ’ , an experience which I imagine would not be too pleasant for the creatures but to him it is as if the sheep offer their wool with the same eagerness as he offers his gifts . |
| 13 | Night shooting , usually with a .22 rifle or shotgun , comes into its own after harvest and continues until such time as the winter-sown corn has grown too tall for the rabbits to be seen . |
| 14 | We know that black elderly people , for example , have very little contact with formal social services but we know far too little about the reasons for this . |
| 15 | As Scherer concludes , ‘ we know far too little about the methods of goal formation and conflict resolution within large organizations . |
| 16 | Too much time was spent on student journalism and other pursuits and too little on the books . |
| 17 | Maybe it has been charging too little for the uncertainties involved , but that is another matter . |
| 18 | If the room be too mean , and too little for the books ; if it be too much out of repair ; if the situation be inconvenient ; if the access to it be dishonourable ; is the library keeper to answer for it ? … |
| 19 | Enright has pointed out with regard to media that ‘ too much attention has been given to the possibilities of the new media supplanting the book , and far too little to the ways in which each can and does supplement the other ’ . |
| 20 | Claiming that Tyacke has paid too much attention to the academic debates of the university teachers and too little to the realities of parochial life , he asserted that throughout the period from 1529 to 1640 the English church was in essence a monarchical church whose leaders were primarily concerned to maintain stability by restricting controversy . |
| 21 | But it tells us too little of the horses and the mules and the packs he used ; it tells us nothing of his carts and his boats ; and this is an area of scholarship curiously underdeveloped . |
| 22 | er Parents predicament is understandable , there have been many tragedies in the past where local authorities perhaps took too much notice of the parents and too little of the children . |
| 23 | Her little shriek was cut off with unerring accuracy by the simple expedient of covering her mouth with his , and she gave up her struggles and surrendered , her foolish heart only too grateful for the crumbs he offered . |
| 24 | Even those in the Britain of the 1980s who would have liked to privatise the last municipal loo were n't too bothered about the Hops Marketing Board . |
| 25 | The price of the Cold War peace dividend proved too high for the Rotarians of the Babbacombe and St Marychurch Club in Torquay , Devon . |
| 26 | As long ago as 1978 , the Scottish Hospital Advisory Service reported from observation visits to long-stay hospitals throughout Scotland that even when adjustable beds were provided , they were frequently found at a height too high for the patients ' safety and unfortunately , this is often still true . |
| 27 | Our dilemma is that it speaks of a level of separation from the world , the flesh and human reality which has already proved far too harmful to the churches in general and for women in particular for us to consider returning to it . |
| 28 | In my own work with Japanese quail I have found that this process may lead to a preference for a partner that is slightly novel — just a bit different but not too different from the members of the opposite sex it knew when it was young ( Bateson , Mate Choice ) . |
| 29 | I was too old for the children 's ward so I was in with men . |
| 30 | Yet too few of the teachers in training are themselves bilingual ( or even multilingual ) . |