Example sentences of "have become too [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ Cricket has become too much of a business . |
| 2 | Whatever the case if it has become too much of a habit , this can be devastating . |
| 3 | Dysart , one of the mainstays of the show , says it has become too much bedroom nookie and too little courtroom drama . |
| 4 | Perhaps money has become too much of a god — to the exclusion of good common sense , and leading to an abdication of responsibility . |
| 5 | The reshuffle fever sweeping Westminster intensified the pressure on Mr Lamont — already seen by some of his colleagues as a Chancellor beyond redemption — to consider whether the gossip about his job has become too much to bear . |
| 6 | ‘ Could it be that crime has become too easy , that violence has become too much a theme of television and videos , that respect for other people has gone too much out of fashion and too many young people see no stake for themselves in this society and see more of a future in crime and the black economy ? ’ he asked . |
| 7 | DRINKING limits currently recommended by doctors are challenged in a book which says an extremist ‘ anti-alcohol lobby ’ has become too influential . |
| 8 | My problem is that over the last 4 or 5 years , I 've been having my hair highlighted and gradually I feel that it has become too blonde . |
| 9 | Howard Ford of IBM said : ‘ I think the industry has become too introspective , concentrating on technical arguments which put off many potential small businesses . ’ |
| 10 | On the adverse side , the field has become too small for comfort , and it is not easy to line up the binoculars on the target . |
| 11 | My own view , as a non-slalom paddler , is that slalom has become too specialized and is no longer in the mainstream of canoeing . |
| 12 | The reasoning for this is that ‘ other people have a very good brand name in Ethernet — we do n't ’ , and that the Ethernet marketplace has become too commodity-like . |
| 13 | Like The Mousetrap , I suspect this debate will run and run , unless of course we find enough Michael Changs who can ace opponents with serves of no more than 62mph and then no doubt , as in the Vilas , Solomon , Dibbs era , we will start complaining that the game has become too slow again . |
| 14 | Gambling has become too competitive . |
| 15 | Education has become too important an issue to leave to teachers . |
| 16 | If the pack has become too big and unmanageable , the dominant male must spend all his time trying to control it . |
| 17 | The class of toddlers to 12 year olds gather in the lounge bar because the village hall has become too damp and draughty . |
| 18 | Tony Marlow says Britain has become too civilised and does n't punish offenders properly . |
| 19 | Theirs is a perfectly good decision that need only become a problem if at a later stage they find that it has become too difficult to share their life and a potential relationship disintegrates through their selfishness . |
| 20 | As Lester Korn — never at a loss for a quote — told Fortune , ‘ Business has become too complicated , and the stakes have become too high , for a board chairman who needs executive talent to rely on his friends or his friends ’ recommendations . |
| 21 | Mussolini might have entertained another fancy , Churchill might have become too drunk to cope , and so on . |
| 22 | This means that publication of excavation reports , as the Frere Report indicates ( 1975 ) , will also have to be transformed , since large pottery reports may now have become too expensive to print in the traditional manner , and may have to be available in microfiche sheets . |
| 23 | But Leith 's glance went from him to where , at some time in the night , he must have become too hot and in stupor had shed his clothes , which were now in a crumpled heap by the side of the bed . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've become too European . |
| 25 | Ciba 's top management hopes this will help break down the hierarchical system in which many of their middle management had become too passive , and encourage more individual initiative . |
| 26 | Last November the consensus among Cologne 's younger art dealers was that the annual Art Fair had become too much of an good thing . |
| 27 | Event had become too much of a drain on both his time and the resources of the rest of the Virgin Group . |
| 28 | ‘ By then it was obvious to me that the business had become too much for my dad on his own . |
| 29 | It had become too dark to search any more and it was cold . |
| 30 | By 1800 , Nez Perce buffalo-hunting expeditions to the Yellowstone had become too dangerous , and five years later a council in the Kamiah valley resolved to obtain firearms for the tribe . |