Example sentences of "we [vb base] too [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We lay too much stress upon words ; we teachers babble , and our scholars follow our example ’ ( ibid . |
| 2 | Other recommendations such as regular change of vascular access have no proved value , and we remain too ignorant on nutritional issues to give clear guidelines on this subject — though at least we agree that nutrition is a good thing . |
| 3 | As a rule , we eat too many simple carbohydrates and not enough complex ones . |
| 4 | Certainly , there is very good evidence that we eat too much sugar , too much saturated fat , too much salt , and not enough fibre . |
| 5 | If we eat too much food high in saturates it can increase our blood cholesterol level and that in turn increases our risk of heart disease . |
| 6 | The stock objection to Locke 's identification of the ‘ idea ’ that is the meaning of the word ‘ pain' with the ‘ idea ’ , the feeling or sensation , that is caused in us when we eat too much manna is that what someone needs , in order to be able to use the word ‘ pain' meaningfully , is not pain , but the concept ‘ pain' . |
| 7 | The only fact upon which dieticians seem agreed is that in general we eat too much meat and too few vegetables , which distorts the balance of fat in our bodies . |
| 8 | All of us , or perhaps , not all of us , but most of us do worry about our food , we eat too much , we eat too little , we eat the wrong thing ! |
| 9 | All of us , or perhaps , not all of us , but most of us do worry about our food , we eat too much , we eat too little , we eat the wrong thing ! |
| 10 | But we trust too many people and er could certainly find burglaries have gone up gone up something like five hundred percent in the last two or three years . |
| 11 | Wet and splattering to keep warm , we giggle too much while small crowish birds squawk strange somethings in the swamp bit . |
| 12 | If we place too much weight on direct financial controls it is all too easy to miss other less visible ways in which the Japanese state has systematically supported the position of large companies . |
| 13 | We occupy too much territory . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Do ye know what it is , Mr O'Malley , ’ he said , ‘ I seriously think we attach too much importance to this question of ages between man and wife . |
| 15 | The problem may not be so much that when we talk of God we say nothing , as that we say too much — we say things that seem to combine irreconcilable images that can never be focussed upon one ‘ being ’ . |
| 16 | The quantity maxim is violated in both directions : creating prolixity if we say too much and terseness if we are too brief . |
| 17 | If we look at our partner as the source of that love we put too much pressure on them . |
| 18 | Our own judgement is a severely negative one , and for one central reason : we punish too much — and in particular , we imprison too much . |
| 19 | We owe too much rent , ’ she replied . |
| 20 | If we impose too stringent constraints on the match , then we will fail to access the correct word . |
| 21 | If we smooth too much , the resulting rough will itself exhibit a trend . |
| 22 | NEWSPAPER ARTICLES about the consequences of a shortage of oil ( or , as now , what happens when there is too much of the stuff ) appear almost daily but we hear too little about another vital industrial resource . |
| 23 | The police believe we drive too fast and at a special motor racing exhibition later this week they 'll be demonstrating how to handle modern , high performance cars . |
| 24 | We know too that Green enjoyed drinking . |
| 25 | WE KNOW TOO THAT MORE AND MORE PROBLEMS — ENVIRONMENTAL , ECONOMIC , INDUSTRIAL — ARE TOO BIG FOR ONE COUNTRY TO SOLVE : THEY HAVE TO BE TACKLED ON A EUROPEAN LEVEL . |
| 26 | We know too little about the internal social relations of some of the earliest collective and collaborative forms to speak with any certainty of that stage . |
| 27 | Longman the least seasonally biased of the three struggled to break even in the first half and this removed the normal pattern of Longman 's half-year profits helping to offset the first half losses of the other two businesses but before we get too depressed er I point out that Addison Wesley s sales were up by eleven percent and the size of the first half loss reflects the company 's decision to gear up in advance er , for what we w believe will be a very strong er , second er , half performance . |
| 28 | Over the radio we hear him snorting around , and we get too much scratching from when his jacket material rubs against the mike , but in less than half a minute he emerges onto the main road . |
| 29 | Well we could , but if we get too many we can go into business selling them or something . |
| 30 | You w you will tr we do n't want you know va I mean if we get too many , it could go the other way , but we i if we could get three or four items , that would be very nice . |