Example sentences of "was too [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both Sony and the Koei Group gave various reasons for the split , Sony that its mission of developing the desk-top publishing market on workstations had been accomplished , while the Koei Group indicated that Sony 's NEWS was too narrow a system for the jointly developed software , which will now be converted for other workstations and personal computers , including Sun Microsystems Inc Sparcsystems and Apple Computer Inc 's Macintosh . |
| 2 | He made it clear to Law that he did not think that Law was well qualified to be leader and that he reserved the right to contest any future vacancy , but Austen was too loyal a man to conspire ; relations were not very friendly , but there was total cooperation . |
| 3 | This was too wide a loophole for the tax planners : no wonder inheritance tax is called a voluntary tax . |
| 4 | It is now clear that this was too simplistic a view . |
| 5 | It was too easy a trick to miss . |
| 6 | It was too easy an assumption . |
| 7 | In a statement issued on March 24 the CCDFG argued that the constitution was too complex a document to be subjected solely to a referendum , and called for the PNDC government to step down in favour of a national transitional government . |
| 8 | Fierce hostility to the bungling conduct of the war since 1370 resulted in the impeachment of Gaunt 's friends — he was too powerful a figure for direct attack . |
| 9 | Defeat was too great a compliment to pay to society . |
| 10 | It was considered that there was too great a danger that the material would , once created , reach and affect a wider audience . |
| 11 | But Mr Utterson was too honest a man and a lawyer to do that . |
| 12 | Mitterand was too clever a politician to put anything in writing but nevertheless his seal of approval was clearly on the operation . |
| 13 | NoS had not been hijacked — that was too strong a word . |
| 14 | Britain was too late an arrival at the feast . |
| 15 | Despite concern that this price was too low the opening market price for the newly issued shares was only 60.5p . |
| 16 | All that noise and energy from the children was too stark a contrast to how she felt : numb , disconnected , cold . |
| 17 | Her mother 's contemptuous sniff meant , Judith knew , ‘ What can you expect from a goy ? ’ but that was too familiar a piece of bigotry to provoke her into argument . |
| 18 | Twice the director stopped him to urge restraint , but television was too new a trick for this old sea-dog and he rampaged on , regardless . |
| 19 | She was too good a cook and I was too faithful a disciple of her art Just lounging by our bed-sitter 's fireside was the sweetest of all occupations . |
| 20 | He might not like or respect Florian personally , but he knew he was too good a jock to lose . |
| 21 | It is , of course , really a serious matter but the photograph was too good a subject to ignore . |
| 22 | He declined to hand over the cash , no matter what was threatened , and he was too good a salesman to be sacked , so the dealing manager yelled over to the accounts clerk : " Deduct £50 from his month 's wages . " |
| 23 | For them it was too good a chance to miss . |
| 24 | But the thing was nobody was impressed with him he was too much of er he was too good a speaker you know . |
| 25 | It was too good a job to risk doing otherwise , and besides , the cameras were always there , so she had to . |
| 26 | Don Burrell had long recognised that there were " two Janes " ; the Jane who knew she was too good a player not to win and the Jane who recognised that there was far less pressure attached to doing badly than doing well . |
| 27 | It was too good a place to miss out on . |
| 28 | This was too good a thing to be distracted from by pique . |
| 29 | Miss Thorne did n't think this was too good an idea but time was precious , so she agreed . |
| 30 | Sloane himself reckoned that such an opportunity to travel and at the same time pursue the practice of physic was too good an opportunity to miss . |