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 | 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 . |
| 4 | These sentiments were to prove too rich for the Whigs and Liberals who were predominant in the mid nineteenth century . |
| 5 | Tastes almost too rich with the spices and brandy . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | YARM AA delegates enjoyed rod-bending action on a private carp lake near Croft as several heavy weights proved too strong for the anglers . |
| 8 | Take a lady of slight build who is not too strong in the hands . |
| 9 | In the seventh bar the bottom A ♭ of the chord has , unfortunately , to be omitted , being too low for the bassoons . |
| 10 | Check that the saddle fits correctly and is neither too low on the withers or spine . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The price of the Cold War peace dividend proved too high for the Rotarians of the Babbacombe and St Marychurch Club in Torquay , Devon . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | I was too old for the children 's ward so I was in with men . |
| 20 | The days passed slowly , this static type of warfare was not too popular with the units in 1st Commando Brigade . |
| 21 | Apparently the school dessert had n't been too popular with the children : the remains of the custard had been put out in a bin , and this had attracted that great opportunist , the starling . |
| 22 | One example of an inappropriate context was in rural areas of Wales where some teachers considered that timetables were too unfamiliar to the pupils to provide a fair test of their skills and understanding of the mathematics involved . |
| 23 | This forces upon us a breadth of interest and concern which readily prevents us from becoming too absorbed in the affairs of our own small island . |
| 24 | Without being too censorious about the effects of presentational considerations on policy , the consequences can be double-edged . |
| 25 | They may actually have to take risks : all the fault of Mrs Thatcher , but not because she was too interested in the entrepreneurs ; quite the contrary , because she over-egged the pudding for the house-owning classes . |
| 26 | The sphere is much too delicate for the adventurers to carry ( e.g. , to use as a weapon ) . |
| 27 | Starting from the position that the dominant framework of feminist film criticism was ‘ too restrictive in the kinds of questions it asks of cinema ’ Gledhill gave a convincing defence of feminist realist practices and concluded with a plea for a kind of cultural analysis which could ‘ hold the extra-discursive and the discursive together as a complex and contradictory interrelation ’ . |
| 28 | The tree has fruited quite well again , though it is too early for the fruits to have taken on their heady aroma . |
| 29 | Already one of the four leading underwriters in 1744 , they were to be one of the two houses that arranged the ‘ closed subscription ’ loans to the government in the difficult winters of 1745–6 and 1757 — loans subsequently attacked by Sir John Barnard [ q.v. ] as too favourable to the promoters . |
| 30 | The City was not too deterred by the rights issue which was offset by strong interim figures and an improved dividend payout . |