Example sentences of "too [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women seem fearful of becoming too friendly with a single mother ; fearful that if they spend too much time with her , they might just get a taste for something that is denied them . |
| 2 | Some think the agencies ' analysts risk becoming too friendly with the companies they rate . |
| 3 | ‘ He 's too friendly with the crew . ’ |
| 4 | This problem was regarded as not too conducive to the fry 's well-being so I removed the rock holding the eggs to another tank of identical temperature and water conditions . |
| 5 | When they speak too loud down the telephone . |
| 6 | These , however , are freely used either to obtain further variation of colour or to strengthen a melodic line which would be too weak on a single wind instrument . |
| 7 | The hexagram represents a beam that is thick and heavy in the middle but too weak at the ends . |
| 8 | He went from briefing the new president that evidence against Oswald was too weak for a conviction to insisting that Oswald was the man . |
| 9 | For some weeks , it seemed that the joint US/NZ resolution on drift-netting would founder in the mire of State Department compromise , as successive US proposals were rejected as too weak by the New Zealanders . |
| 10 | The ‘ taste and decency ’ clauses of the BBC and ITA charters are considered to be too weak by the moral tendency of the Conservative Party . |
| 11 | Richard 's horses were too exhausted for a pursuit to be possible . |
| 12 | I 'm never too exhausted at the end of a marathon . |
| 13 | Killion was too exhausted by the feeble air , and the cold , and the need to watch the airfield , to try and think of a reason . |
| 14 | Genuinely skilled workers in this country are simply too scarce for the sort of industrial base we want to create . |
| 15 | Whereas gold was widely accessible in a form suited for immediate use by the smith , native silver , though doubtless exploited by early man when it occurred in nature , was too scarce in the Old World to serve as the basis for any very substantial industry . |
| 16 | He had been too engrossed in the anguish of his own thoughts to notice the approach of the two uniformed policemen . |
| 17 | I tried to drag you away but you were too engrossed in the Butler man to pay any attention . ’ |
| 18 | Generally , if you keep an open mind , and do not become too engrossed in the technicalities , you will pick up danger signals fairly quickly , should they come your way . |
| 19 | It was an eerie place , full of strange sounds and dank smells and things too frightful for a small boy to contemplate . |
| 20 | I do n't think we need to be too sorry at the reason we 're not getting it written is we 're far too busy lobbying MPs and making protests in the centre of town and things . |
| 21 | The lettering on the bag looks too garish for the occasion , but at least wo n't get out of the car and find the remnants of her life spilling out into the gutter . |
| 22 | And people who 've tried barfly do n't seem too worred about the danger . |
| 23 | Souness said : ‘ I 'm not too upset by the new rule — I 've got the best outfield playing goalkeeper in the world ! |
| 24 | We heard about your recent burglary and hope you were not too upset by the trouble and inconvenience . |
| 25 | ‘ Dignity ’ is not a word that figures in my lexicon of praise ( too redolent of the prattle of soulboys ) but with Cave 's work since Kicking Against the Pricks , it 's appropriate and unavoidable . |
| 26 | When Czechoslovakia achieved its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918 , it was considered too redolent of the Habsburgs and sadly was destroyed . |
| 27 | But the angle was too acute for the veteran striker . |
| 28 | ‘ I fear ’ , said How to Ramsey , ‘ that you might be too retiring for the job . ’ |
| 29 | These sentiments were to prove too rich for the Whigs and Liberals who were predominant in the mid nineteenth century . |
| 30 | Tastes almost too rich with the spices and brandy . |