Example sentences of "take too [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her main fault is that she takes too seriously the allusive jokes in Asquith 's letters . |
| 2 | He stopped the seamen and dock workers joining the strike , but he did not take too hard a line . |
| 3 | We need not take too seriously the explanation of the shattered pebbles as being caused by lightning strikes or local fires ; this explanation invokes an awful lot of lightning in low rainfall regions and too many fires for comfort in areas with scant vegetation cover and small populations . |
| 4 | This seems to be pushing the linguistic analogy too far , and to be taking too literally the structuralist tenet that literature is ‘ the essential manifestation ’ of language , and that ‘ the writer does nothing more than read language ’ ( p.84 ) . |
| 5 | So we would have had to leave anyway , in case the cops started taking too close an interest in it . |
| 6 | Even if we do not want to take too seriously the feuds between Cato and Quinctius Flamininus ( Plut . |