Example sentences of "too [adj] from [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Thus , there is a positive externality bestowed on the manufacturer by such retailers ' actions , which in turn means that retailers will tend to set prices too high and advertising too low from the manufacturer 's point of view ( i.e. high prices are a negative vertical externality ) .
2 On our review model the tremolo has been set up with three springs instead of Stevie 's five , and the baseplate is kicked up way too high from the face of the body .
3 Too often , people think that the sentence by a court is not proportionate to the crime committed and the sentence actually served is too different from the sentence passed . ’
4 Apart from arms-length shareholders such as foreigners , pension funds and individuals , investors typically stand to lose too much from a change of ownership .
5 However it is also fair to say that the professional leaders sometimes expected too much from the change ; it is no slur on an honourable movement within the American profession that its initial success did not immediately bring the golden age .
6 I think that this is to take too much from the decision .
7 As this is one of the main characteristics of the late medieval rural economy , one must not expect too much from the evidence of excavations .
8 Nevertheless , this is an excellent , aggressive account of the Allegro , albeit with a little too much from the timpanist , especially at the ends of rolls where he insists on drawing attention to himself .
9 ‘ They say that we have become selfish and have taken too much from the Earth without giving anything back .
10 In unveiling the plan Hawke declared : " We have taken too much from the earth and given back too little .
11 Structural surfaces within the sill seem to be stripped until they depart too much from the equilibrium erosion profile , at which stage the marine bench seems to step up to a slightly higher structural surface .
12 In other cases , explicit discussion of the difficulties presented by the expression is more helpful , if this does not distract too much from the progression of your argument .
13 His eyes were hollow , dark rimmed with fatigue and worry ; his skin was unnaturally pale , the skin of a man who has been kept too long from the light .
14 She would not travel on the underground or in an aeroplane , and felt panicky if she went into a department store and was too far from the door or windows .
15 This would have meant straying too far from the auditor 's traditional role .
16 Well it 's never too far from the back of your mind though is it really ?
17 And I had never been away from home because er too far from the village .
18 and if you wander off too far from the structure
19 She did not find it too difficult to go into a small shop — say , the local newsagent or the greengrocer at the corner of the street — as she was never too far from the window or the door .
20 Charles dashed past my aircraft — I followed in haste but was too far from the slit trench to make it .
21 For example if the centre of the wheel is too far from the centre of the steering swivels then shimying. premature wheel bearing failure and poor handling may result .
22 Perhaps the edge is too far from the centre .
23 There are several inland cliffs , but these are too far from the sea for auks and gulls , and so the whole , and large , sea bird population of this part of Iceland is concentrated on to this one cliff .
24 My fields are too far from the Manor for me to keep an eye on them .
25 They should not be too far from the console if the organist is to avoid playing too loudly for those people seated near them .
26 It would not be too far from the truth , as one author put it , to christen this most successful of all cats as ‘ ’ The British Imperial Cat ’ .
27 Although we had three rooms for the sessions , conditions were very cramped and there were last minute hitches with pupils discovering their recorders would n't work or the plug points were too far from the place allocated for the interviews .
28 The middle summary point is not used to draw a straight line , but it should not lie too far from the line if the underlying relationship really is linear .
29 So , but I hope if I stray too far from the path somebody will remind me .
30 Her deafness became evident at the age of 12 while she was attending a school run by a Reverend Perry , when she found that she could not hear very well if she sat too far from the teacher , and by the time she was 16 , it had worsened as to become very noticeable and inconvenient to herself .
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