Example sentences of "not [be] too [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do not be too keen to give praise in this instance , but allow the dog to settle down first for a few moments . |
| 2 | Do not be too proud to ask for help from your colleagues in hearing your presentation . |
| 3 | It might not be too late to invite him to dinner , If he 's got nothing else planned . |
| 4 | It might not be too late to get a direct order through to Kirov on the radio . |
| 5 | But it may not be too late to suggest that Waugh 's reputation for right-wingery — a reputation swallowed by Orwell and many since — has been mildly overdone . |
| 6 | If you wish , go on your way , but we shall report your rudeness and obduracy to Philip IV of France , who would not be too pleased to see future delicate negotiations hindered by the ill-manners of one of his envoys . ’ |
| 7 | It would not be too misleading to say that it lives up to its name and represents a measure of the degree of " business " of the electron following that particular path . |
| 8 | First , interferon gene deletions have previously been associated with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia and it would , therefore , not be too surprising to find that abnormalities of interferon regulation or of the interferon signalling pathway were tumorigenic . |
| 9 | You could check at this time that there is actually a male present , as two females sometimes act out the spawning procedure , producing infertile eggs ; I have not seen this where males were available , so do not be too hasty to split up a pair , especially if you are not yet confident about sexing your Angels . |
| 10 | So I think we geologists should not be too bashful to theorise on the basis of purely geological evidence , and I can not avoid the conclusion that at least some of the enigmas I have been discussing may have an origin in the climate . |
| 11 | What you should be aware of though is which elements are the most common in sea water and you 'll not be too surprised to learn that sodium and chlorine , as in sodium chloride , as in common salt are in fact the two most elements in sea water followed by magnesium , sulphur and calcium . |
| 12 | If the plant material needs to go in a press , a small one is probably adequate for your needs , and will not be too heavy to carry , and if it should be pressed between the pages of books , then take a supply of blotting paper and telephone directories with you . |
| 13 | But secured creditors may not be too happy to see GE 's money spent on unsecured creditors while they lose control of the firm 's smart new jets . |
| 14 | The Law Society 's rules of professional conduct do provide exemptions for this , but even so , a conveyancer should not be too quick to use those exemptions if acting for both sides might conceivably lead to a compromise or a difficult situation . |
| 15 | Do not be too quick to blame the puppy if it makes a mess when you are indoors . |
| 16 | It would therefore not be too unfair to conclude that many teachers , whether in primary or secondary schools , are , by tradition , unfamiliar with discussions that involve the whole curriculum of a school . |
| 17 | It would not be too extreme to ascribe insanity to a headmaster with no pupils ringing a long-silent bell in an empty school . |
| 18 | It may not be too extreme to suggest that the last few years have seen a quiet revolution in the direction taken by our thinking about writing development and the teaching of writing in schools . |
| 19 | What we 're also talking about , is elderly people being able to go out at night and not be too frightened to go out at night . |
| 20 | Inter-City , the next candidate for privatisation , makes money , so it should not be too hard to find a buyer . |
| 21 | ‘ It will not be too difficult to sort out amicable arrangements of who sees whom and when . ’ |
| 22 | In the abstract it may not be too difficult to acknowledge that the thinking , desiring and feeling which seem more intimately myself than my bodily motions are spontaneous , and also voluntarily controllable , in much the same proportions as the physical process of breathing , and that there has never been a moment of choice when I was not already being spontaneously pulled by them in the directions between which I chose . |
| 23 | Given that many ordinands have musical gifts , it should not be too difficult to explore a wide variety of music for worship . |
| 24 | That being so , my prince , it should not be too difficult to contrive a further meeting — if such be Your Grace 's will . |
| 25 | However , it should not be too difficult to imagine several different titles for passage ( 3 ) , each of which could equally facilitate comprehension . |
| 26 | Having established a distinction between social movements and organized political formations , and indicated in a preliminary way the characteristics of social movements , it would not be too difficult to construct a typology of such movements , as a number of writers have attempted , in terms of their size ( number of participants ) , range ( local , national , international ) , duration , objectives ( specific or general , directed toward transforming individuals or supra-individual systems ) and so on . |
| 27 | Fratter 's ( 1989 ) study indicates that provided practitioners are convinced about the importance of contact , adoptive families may not be too difficult to find . |
| 28 | It should not be too difficult to find the body . |
| 29 | Moreover having mastered the proof as it were " locally " it should now not be too difficult to master it " globally " by identifying the key points that make the proof work . |
| 30 | Providing that the interview is well structured , it should not be too difficult to produce a proof of evidence that can be used directly as a formal witness statement for exchange . |