Example sentences of "it [verb] too much [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WAD general secretary Margaret Williams , said : ‘ At present , a lot of disabled people are unable to go to Grange Road because it involves too much walking . |
| 2 | It involves , it involves too much work , that 's why she ca n't do them like you . |
| 3 | It became too much trouble sometimes even to go to the Camp Cinema . |
| 4 | I 'm not very happy about this diet — for one thing , I think it contains too much protein . |
| 5 | Muslims and Jews want to get rid of it for religious reasons ; Americans want ( wanted ? ) to get rid of it for hygienic reasons and for the hypothetical reduced risk of penile cancer in the circumcised population ; Latins love to play with it , like to keep it , and are taught to mobilise it often ; the British would like to ignore it , not to touch it , and eventually get rid of it when it causes too much trouble . |
| 6 | For these people use of the steel-jawed leghold trap by commercial trappers is wrong because it causes too much pain , whereas other , ‘ more humane methods ’ of trapping would be permissible because the pain they cause , though real enough , is not excessive . |
| 7 | The UK government 's strategy for reducing carbon emissions has been attacked by environmentalists , who argue that it places too much reliance on voluntary action by industry and the presumed effect of market forces , and that it pays scant attention to the need for research into energy efficiency . |
| 8 | Regarding economic management , one tenet of monetarism is that the effects of money supply changes involve both long and variable lags , so that it assumes too much expertise on behalf of politicians to imagine they can time expansive monetary policy to their advantage . |
| 9 | But if it becomes too long there is a danger that the listener will forget the original theme , concentrating on the third sentence because it assumes too much importance . |
| 10 | Amstrad has eschewed the popular PenPoint operating system on the grounds that it is overly complex for the PDA 's requirements — which is basically to emulate a paper-based organiser , and that it requires too much processor horse-power . |
| 11 | When I first set it up , it delivered too much ink , but it settled down fairly soon . |
| 12 | Love was too complicated an emotion for him ; it required too much staying power . |
| 13 | The MSHA has the power to close down a mine if it finds too much dust in the air . |
| 14 | Humphrey calls the differentiation of the working class thesis technologically determinist because he says it attaches too much importance to technology . |
| 15 | Tomorrow it would have calmed down , but after washing it acquired too much zip and body to tame . |
| 16 | Emil himself and Oliver delivered the necessary , although Emil on his return said he hoped this was n't going to happen at lunch and dinner also , because it took too much time . |
| 17 | Some have become prepared to forgo promotion if it means too much disruption of home and family and if they personally do not want the commuting life . |
| 18 | But it put too much pressure on the relationship , and when it finished I realised that he 'd resented what I had done . |
| 19 | During a break in which the designer 's assistant smeared the mirror above the fireplace with vaseline — ; Meredith had complained it reflected too much light — Dawn Allenby apologised for the drenching smell of eau de Cologne that pervaded her person . |
| 20 | But the Nikkei Industrial Daily sounds a note of warning for NEC : there are two pitfalls for the company with the current order , it says : the sheer difficulty of running a development project to create the mainframe software that makes up the ‘ Fourth Online System ’ — people involved with the development of Third Online Systems predicted the end of such enormous projects ; and the danger of overlooking the trend towards downsizing because it devotes too much time and too many resources on the project . |
| 21 | The US and the Anglo-Saxon countries , for example , complain that it spends too much time and makes too little progress on basic standards , which they see as of benefit to developing countries alone . |