Example sentences of "too [adj] a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason : New Forum is sceptical about too hasty a unification of the two German states , and about market economies . |
| 2 | ‘ Investors often take too short-term a view of unit trusts ’ |
| 3 | He says : ‘ Investors often take too short-term a view of unit trusts , so if exit charges encourage longer term holdings it would be in the consumer 's interest . ’ |
| 4 | Obviously too strong a flurry of angelic wings , too ready recourse to miracles or to Omnipotence , would instantly diminish the stature of the characters , devalue their decisions and their courage . |
| 5 | Sometimes in the evenings she had too strong a sense of being locked into the life of the farmhouse , even with the door continuously open on the summer yard , her brother away in the fields , her mother stumbling about the place with buckets , leaning on the table or the back of a chair whenever she stood to talk . |
| 6 | For Loeb , it had the unfortunate result of committing him to too narrow a view of the mechanisms responsible for animal orientation . |
| 7 | Sometimes research itself takes too narrow a view of social changes , and their impact on family relationships . |
| 8 | Professor Hirst ( 1973 ) none the less feels that Stenhouse takes too narrow a view of what is meant by " outcomes " , arising from the " engineering approach " which he finds is encouraged by writers such as Tyler , for many years the key author in the field . |
| 9 | In effect , therefore , we stop acquiring any new skills and this may mean we risk having too narrow a repertoire of skills to equip us adequately for the variety of people-situations we are likely to encounter . |
| 10 | Some commentators see the last group mainly in terms of the process of the diffusion of technology , but this would seem to be too narrow a use of the concept since spread or diffusion is an essential , and probably the most important , element in all forms of technological change . |
| 11 | ‘ It tends to select from too narrow a band of families , which allows inbreeding to reduce the full benefit of improvement programmes . ’ |
| 12 | The Soviet Union supported the narrow definition of eligibility for consultation and the United States favoured too broad a definition of eligibility . |
| 13 | Investigators said the Ty Mawr home in Abergavenny , Gwent , was badly mismanaged , had too broad a mix of residents and had untrained staff . |
| 14 | Pamela , take heed that you do not suffer the purity of your own mind to make you too rigorous a censurer of other people 's actions . |
| 15 | Yet too rigorous a pursuit of that objective might result not only in failure but also in net losses to the United States . |
| 16 | BASIC NEED Although South Cleveland already had a scanner and North Tees and South Tyneside were promised them , Mr Stewart did not think there was too high a concentration of the machines in a small area . |
| 17 | So had they put too high a sort of level for subsistence ? |
| 18 | The trouble with presenting Therapy ? as such is that you can paint too damp a picture of them . |
| 19 | She was too good a cook and I was too faithful a disciple of her art Just lounging by our bed-sitter 's fireside was the sweetest of all occupations . |
| 20 | That is too meagre a ration of choice for a country that spends the equivalent of nearly a full day out of every week of its life in front of the set . |
| 21 | An overlay of interactive colouring them followed to bring an element of form , though intentionally avoiding too detailed a degree of modelling . |
| 22 | In this approach a court order following an isolated offence is regarded as too rigid a way of tackling a complex problem and one that fails to involve the family adequately . |
| 23 | But it is possible that the poor reputation of Mary 's Council is based on too credulous a reading of the reports of Imperial envoys . |
| 24 | Similarly , Corder , though sounding a note of caution about adopting too restrictive a model of description , expresses the view that pedagogy draws selectively from descriptions of language provided by linguistics . |
| 25 | But the discussion here has shown that this is far too limited a conception of the productive process , and a more persuasive picture is of a variety of modes , cross-cutting individuals , classes , other groups and mass market requirements . |
| 26 | Again you , you never felt that you were , because you were doing that , you never had the feeling that perhaps you were becoming too much a part of management rather than er simply representing work or did you simply see it as part of your , your job to look after the incentive scheme in that way because it did er that was a part of representing the workforce ? |
| 27 | Mr. Gardiner submitted that this case was neutral in relation to the Woolwich principle but I think that is to take too favourable a view of it . |
| 28 | We must also avoid taking too simple a view of the encoding and decoding processes . |
| 29 | Our response to these opposing arguments is to suggest that arguments that new technology is creating very large scale unemployment in the near future are alarmist , based on too simple a set of assumptions . |
| 30 | At this point in the debate a public bunfight has arisen between , on the one hand the authors of the Coopers & Lybrand report on Tuesday that warned of a ‘ fiscal reality gap ’ and a public sector borrowing requirement soaring way above Tory and Labour projections ( about which this column warned last week ) and those who believe this takes too gloomy a view of prospects . |