Example sentences of "too [adv] [verb] by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we look at industrial work it can be seen that it tends to be too much dominated by part tasks in that the worker is not involved with the delivery of the whole product but with a small component of it and even , at times , with a particular operation on that small component . |
| 2 | Paul replied that he wished to see Mr Lamprey ; the name had intrigued him , but now he was too greatly assailed by nervousness to perceive humour in anything . |
| 3 | It is high time to abandon that caricature , too long perpetuated by dictionary definitions such as the one you quote from Chambers , both for the sake of historical justice and because , in the present as in the past , anti-Pharisaism and anti-Judaism have a nasty way of feeding on each other . |
| 4 | To quote one of your letter writers : ‘ It is high time to abandon that caricature , too long perpetuated by dictionary definitions ’ . |
| 5 | The emotions give warmth and feeling , but through them factual perception and logic are all too easily ruled by imagination . |
| 6 | Linear notes are too often made by history students for the wrong reasons : |
| 7 | These include chemical allergens ( exhaust fumes and tobacco smoke among them ) , food allergens ( too often overlooked by asthma specialists ) , and physical and psychological stress . |
| 8 | If one asks the further question , were the King 's actions wise ? , one 's answer is likely to be all too heavily conditioned by hindsight , by the views one takes of the later politics of the 1930s , of the restoration of a two-party system , and of the decline of the Liberal Party . |