Example sentences of "too [adj] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I stepped down the steep treads I heard the too loud click of shoe leather on metal . |
| 2 | Demant too combined interest in savage and city . |
| 3 | Even four successive nights seemed an almost too generous slice of happiness , and on that fourth night , with the waning moonlight glittering on the sea and the crickets noisy in the hayfield on the other side of the wall , she gazed sadly up at him and asked the question that had been uppermost in their minds for some time . |
| 4 | Indeed the all too prevalent outlook on life has become I want it and I want it now . |
| 5 | Once stage three gets underway , however , the librarian finds that bibliographies of the subject tend to cut across classification boundaries with impunity , particularly in the humanities and social sciences , and a too rigid adherence to classification numbers means that a good deal of the material which is not easily pigeon-holed can escape the selection net . |
| 6 | As he opened the post-mortem on England 's defeat , Fletcher said : ‘ We play on too bland pitches at home . |
| 7 | The tenant should be careful also not to agree a too restrictive period of time in which to carry out remedial works . |
| 8 | Every climax was given its full space whilst avoiding the all too easy pitfall of self-indulgence . |
| 9 | If ever her name was mentioned , he quickly changed the conversation with a too obvious show of lack of interest in Pickles 's affairs . |
| 10 | Brazauskas adopted a more cautious line regarding the too rapid dismantling of state industries , although he still emphasised that privatisation needed to be speeded up . |
| 11 | They partly justified this by an eye upon the too rapid growth of population in some countries . |
| 12 | For a moment Charity 's mind grappled with the too swift change of topic , but then the light went on . |
| 13 | And alertness that goes untested for too long decays into complacency . |
| 14 | As for the corruption now disgusting Italy 's voters , its cause , arguably , is too long tenure of office , not the electoral system . |
| 15 | If the word Gruyère on the packet can induce people to buy the product in question ( I have tasted it ; and it seems only fair to say that of its kind it is of a matchless ignobility ) then it becomes clear that it is a too innocent belief in authenticity and the efficacy of the ancient formula which has made us such easy victims of the purveyors of the farmyard-fresh Surrey chicken from the battery house , the mountain-brook trout from the breeding tank , via the deep-freeze , the hedgerow-ripened blackberry pie-filling out of the cardboard box . |
| 16 | Alone , words are subject to a too great variety of interpretation . |
| 17 | Evidence from leading industrial companies to the Trade and Industry Sub Committee of the Expenditure Committee of the House of Commons in 1973 made it clear that too frequent changes in government policy and in the nature of controls and incentives covering the location of industry had led firms gradually to discount government policy when considering new investment in a way that was injurious to growth and the creation of new employment . |
| 18 | Too frequent reliance on segat to avoid one 's responsibilities would , of course , eventually bring social pressure to bear : gossip , scolding , shaming , and so on . |
| 19 | But no-one seemed to care about the cost — Rome was too busy surfing on spumante , giddy with the success of its new plaything . |
| 20 | Chief among these , I would argue , are a too heavy reliance on language , particularly descriptive terminology , a constant preoccupation with classroom and textbook centred examples at the expense of using the rich mathematical resources in an environment , and a sense of rigid , logical class by-class progression resulting probably from the original division into year-based writing groups . |
| 21 | He had regained command over himself , for there was no trace now in his handsome features of the recent turmoil , only the too evident ravages of dissipation . |
| 22 | With sadly impaired health and frustrated by Rossetti 's reluctance to commit himself to marriage , and his too apt inclination to infidelity , she resorted to ever-increasing doses of laudanum . |
| 23 | On and off the pitch United 's decade under the Maxwells has given them a brief but all too short taste of glory . |
| 24 | And she was silenced as one watching the rerun of an all too familiar catastrophe beyond change . |
| 25 | However , the all too familiar constraint of funding has prevented much progress to date . |
| 26 | Had a too open show of admiration given offence ? — for she had felt a flame leap to her throat to watch the man 's confident pride in his body , the actuality of his skill , the sheer command . |
| 27 | A special pathos is achieved when the poetry acts out the predicament of people whose all too expert command of language debars them ( paradoxically ) from expressing a common human sorrow — mortality , the fear of it , and its conclusiveness — as limpidly as could Williams 's ‘ widow ’ . |
| 28 | Sweeney is a weapon against a too hopeful view of history . |
| 29 | ‘ Without due care ’ , it was feared that ‘ the all too common attitude of self-preservation and the growing general acceptance to do as one pleased without fear of retribution would … lead the country to anarchy ’ . |
| 30 | An all too common kind of crisis for community and primary care teams is that a vulnerable patient is suddenly discharged from hospital on a Friday afternoon without any formal referral or plan for aftercare . |