Example sentences of "too [adv] [vb pp] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It all represents King a little too effectively marketed to tingle the skin , but underneath it all there is the same fluidity , the same lightning double-time runs , the same sense of shape , declaring that repackaging can not really cramp his style . |
| 2 | For pupils of high ability , too much of the curriculum was often taken up with preparation for exams , and too little done to stretch them in the earlier years . |
| 3 | These are both too well known and too widely misunderstood to introduce here in detail : Turing , it will be remembered , wanted to cut through philosophical discussion with a Wittgensteinian fervour . |
| 4 | Megarry V-C , in Marshall ( Thomas ) ( Exports ) v Guinle [ 1979 ] Ch 227 set out a test of four elements which is most helpful for determining whether the information is too widely known to retain the necessary quality of confidence . |
| 5 | Gorbad was too badly hurt to mount a vigorous pursuit , and many gallant knights were able to escape including the badly wounded Count of Wissenland . |
| 6 | Perhaps the leader was too badly hurt to give orders … |
| 7 | Its aims and operations are still too loosely formulated to allow it to be the cohesive force it could be . |
| 8 | The effect upon the family of extra-familial sexual activity on the part of a parent are too widely known and have been too much discussed to need much elaboration here . |
| 9 | I think there 's too much attached to age . |
| 10 | She was prickly and sharp with him , and only too obviously relieved to make her escape . |
| 11 | However , there are occasions when the product is either too expensive or too highly specialised to give away . |
| 12 | Interpretations of normalisation are too easily made to fit with long-established assumptions and practice . |
| 13 | It seems that the children have been too easily persuaded to sell their land and houses , for what matters in a drama like this is not that the children should act out what actually happened in real life , but that it should open up and help them understand the dilemmas of industrialisation . |
| 14 | A pamphleteer opposing a " too generous " Poor Law in 1786 , noting that paupers were too easily allowed to build cottages on the waste and install themselves to become eventual burdens on the rates , remarked , " Happily the justices of the peace have no legal authority to augment the number of our cottages . |
| 15 | The trouble is , one becomes too deeply involved to notice what 's going on … ’ |
| 16 | Sir Oliver is sorry to hear that ; but would he not be too smartly dressed to look like a money-lender ? |
| 17 | If Westminster MPs are too haughty to consider a role for themselves as a junior revising chamber of the European Parliament and too short sighted to invite Strasbourg experts on to their own select committee on EC affairs , they , not the MEPs will be the eventual losers . |
| 18 | He was too far gone to give a damn about anything . |
| 19 | I imagined they were old and slow reptiles , too far gone to chase a sprightly private detective around their pit , content just to chew placidly on a hunk of dead cow . |
| 20 | Certain people , perhaps because they were friendly with one doctor but held a higher opinion of the professional ability of the other , took to carrying cards in their pockets which gave the relevant instructions in case they should find themselves too far gone to claim the doctor they wanted . |
| 21 | She 'd have been too far gone to hear . |
| 22 | They either had too few subjects , too short a treatment , lack of double-blind methods or the subjects were institutionalised and demented geriatrics who were too far gone to show any psychological changes . |
| 23 | People at the USTA and LTA are too far removed to know what is really required — Glenn William |
| 24 | To pump it out a new water-wheel was required , suggesting that the old Bonsor East Shaft wheel was too far decayed to repair , or missing altogether . |
| 25 | Given the lack of precision , it would not be too far fetched to claim that there is an element of post hoc rationalization in some of the definitions of the public service broadcasting notion . |
| 26 | The costs were escalating alarmingly but he felt that he was too far committed to stop . |
| 27 | There is easy access to the foot of one of the buttresses where the mammoth task of construction is better appreciated and the industry and enterprise of the builders more fully admired : these craftsmen of a past age here erected a work of art that has become their own memorial and puts to shame the undistinguished concrete structures favoured by the builders of today , builders who have the benefits of modern technology yet seem too often prepared to sacrifice character to utility . |
| 28 | It is the churches which have too often failed to live according to the model set for them by Christ . |
| 29 | In spite of all the powers with which he was armed , and routinely used for routine ends , it is clear that the Northern Nigerian Resident too often failed to use them for good : being , rather than doing , good came to define the limits of his aspirations . |
| 30 | Before looking at how , albeit unwittingly , orthodox Christianity has too often failed to appreciate the dramatic nature of the Great Battle , I want to add a footnote on myth , the gospel , and modern scholarship . |