Example sentences of "not too [adj] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the girls eventually reached home Major and Mrs Burrows were already in bed , but not too tired to hear the tremendous news . |
| 2 | The discussion that is recorded about Lothar 's age suggests that some were at first not too keen to elect a pope in his thirties who , on recent record , might last for half a century . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's not too late to inform the police , ’ put in Charlotte , pausing to study the other two's reactions and finding them to be exactly what she had expected . |
| 4 | Too late for self-respect , but not too late to exact a little vengeance . |
| 5 | Let me remind the Committee , it 's not too late to cross the political divide |
| 6 | I hope it 's not too late to get the following listed in the ‘ What 's On ’ section in the next issue : |
| 7 | Was it not too restrictive to preclude the possibility that forces of greater intensity had acted in the past ? |
| 8 | It is not too fanciful to see a connection here with a point Ingram has made about the acquisition of linguistic transformations by children ( to dwell within the Chomskian paradigm a little longer ) . |
| 9 | Usually it is not too hard to spot the person by his broad welcoming smile or the eager , slightly nervous way he scans the arriving passengers . |
| 10 | When I used to say , ‘ Oh yeah ’ , he 'd reply , ‘ Do n't be cheeky , you 're not too old to get a clip round the ear . ’ |
| 11 | I am not too old to accept the difference in life , Miss Cress , and nowadays , people do not dance , they lead such serious , earnest lives . |
| 12 | ‘ Come to think of it , ’ said Donleavy , ‘ maybe it 's not too smart to get a US entry stamp in your passport right after this . |
| 13 | Life , for me , is certainly not too short to stuff a mushroom . |
| 14 | It is not too difficult to devise a simple but practical bar code system , but there are a few important factors to bear in mind . |
| 15 | In psychology , English , history , even biology , it is not too difficult to demonstrate a bias towards male experience . |
| 16 | It is really not too difficult to wave the reader at a reasonably constant speed while it is over the bar code . |
| 17 | Red-necked phalarope are very numerous , and waders such as whimbrel , redshank and black-tailed godwit nest in the meadows nearby It is not too unusual to see a magnificent gyr falcon swoop across the lake on a hunting expedition — and with a wide choice of birds on the menu ! |