Example sentences of "too [adj] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some think the agencies ' analysts risk becoming too friendly with the companies they rate . |
| 2 | ‘ He 's too friendly with the crew . ’ |
| 3 | This problem was regarded as not too conducive to the fry 's well-being so I removed the rock holding the eggs to another tank of identical temperature and water conditions . |
| 4 | When they speak too loud down the telephone . |
| 5 | The hexagram represents a beam that is thick and heavy in the middle but too weak at the ends . |
| 6 | He went from briefing the new president that evidence against Oswald was too weak for a conviction to insisting that Oswald was the man . |
| 7 | Richard 's horses were too exhausted for a pursuit to be possible . |
| 8 | I 'm never too exhausted at the end of a marathon . |
| 9 | Genuinely skilled workers in this country are simply too scarce for the sort of industrial base we want to create . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I tried to drag you away but you were too engrossed in the Butler man to pay any attention . ’ |
| 12 | He had been too engrossed in the anguish of his own thoughts to notice the approach of the two uniformed policemen . |
| 13 | I do n't think we need to be too sorry at the reason we 're not getting it written is we 're far too busy lobbying MPs and making protests in the centre of town and things . |
| 14 | The lettering on the bag looks too garish for the occasion , but at least wo n't get out of the car and find the remnants of her life spilling out into the gutter . |
| 15 | And people who 've tried barfly do n't seem too worred about the danger . |
| 16 | We heard about your recent burglary and hope you were not too upset by the trouble and inconvenience . |
| 17 | When Czechoslovakia achieved its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918 , it was considered too redolent of the Habsburgs and sadly was destroyed . |
| 18 | ‘ Dignity ’ is not a word that figures in my lexicon of praise ( too redolent of the prattle of soulboys ) but with Cave 's work since Kicking Against the Pricks , it 's appropriate and unavoidable . |
| 19 | ‘ I fear ’ , said How to Ramsey , ‘ that you might be too retiring for the job . ’ |
| 20 | These sentiments were to prove too rich for the Whigs and Liberals who were predominant in the mid nineteenth century . |
| 21 | Tastes almost too rich with the spices and brandy . |
| 22 | Now let me for just a few minutes , look forward if that 's not too presumptuous for a chair who is moving out . |
| 23 | I think it was because it was too associated with the establishment . |
| 24 | They were only too used to the need for chivvying insouciant students into beginning some work for the module as deadlines approached . |
| 25 | But the wider appeal failed , largely because local men were still too rooted in the past . |
| 26 | Sources say Bristol and Insignia can not be too specific about the nature of their collaboration because they are currently still working out techniques which could change . |
| 27 | Sources say Bristol and Insignia can not be too specific about the nature of their collaboration because they are currently still working out techniques , which could change . |
| 28 | We did n't want to be too specific at the moment . |
| 29 | It had not been such a dull night after all , she mused , hoped Travis 's head would n't be too sore in the morning , then found that , whatever diversions might occur , once the excitement was over she was back to worrying about the wretched mortgage . |
| 30 | De Gaulle opted for Pleven 's solution , on the grounds that the medicine that Mendès-France prescribed was too strong for a nation that was still recovering from its wounds . |