Example sentences of "is too much [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within these great defensive rings , particularly the outer ones , there is too Much to see in one go ; as with all cities Milan can comfortably fill almost any amount of the inquisitive visitor 's time . |
| 2 | It is too much to say that ‘ ministers , uncertain about everything else , had at times found a refuge in social righteousness ’ and that ‘ Bunyan … might have said that social righteousness was his old village of Morality transformed , like Manchester , to a town , by the industrial revolution ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ To live for ever is too much to take . |
| 4 | The audience may accept that the war is being fought over an ignoble cause , but Thersites 's response to existence is too much to take . |
| 5 | They were short of ideas , the passing was appalling , and the game provided ideal ammunition for the Scottish critics who claim a 44-match Premier Division season is too much to ask of supporters . |
| 6 | But sportsmen must retire ; their bones insist upon it , and most try to do so if not at the height of their powers — that is too much to ask , no matter how determined the vows of youth — at any rate a day before they are asked to go rather than a day after . |
| 7 | It is too much to ask . ’ |
| 8 | Consensus is too much to expect in the present state of English Studies , but I detect a convergence of ideas among those whose starting-points and ideological assumptions are very different . |
| 9 | It is too much to expect musicians to deliberately cast aside the fringe benefits of success . |
| 10 | ‘ However , I have concluded that it is too much to expect of my colleagues in Government and in Parliament to have to put up with a constant barrage of stories about me in certain tabloid newspapers . |
| 11 | To hope for a return to how they must have looked before mine shafts and blast furnaces — one of the most strikingly attractive regions in Britain — is too much to expect . |
| 12 | Although any clear-cut classification is too much to expect , application of common sense to the broad outlines of the numerical data enables us to pick our way through this statistical minefield with tolerable assurance . |
| 13 | You are under an obligation not to use any little piece of knowledge which it is too much to expect your readers to know . |
| 14 | ‘ It really is too much to expect them to do that , ’ said . |
| 15 | Your mixture of innocence and desire is too much to keep refusing . |
| 16 | Perhaps it is too much to hope that the Court of Appeal ( in their forthcoming judgment in the Sutcliffe case ) will give definitive guidance on what should be included in the judge 's summing up in a libel trial . |
| 17 | Perhaps it is too much to hope that this concert finally dragged the Petersfield Musical Festival into the 20th century , but with a promised appearance by the acclaimed National Youth Jazz Orchestra next year , as well as The Dream of Gerontius , it remains only for the committee to do something about the slow start to the week for the festival to regain some of its former splendour . |
| 18 | It is too much to hope that EMI will raid its archives for Solomon 's Chopin , Debussy or Haydn but to keep the work of one of the greatest exponents of the Beethoven sonatas under wraps for so long ( the sonata recordings were last issued in 1972 ) is simply incredible ; especially considering the efforts EMI have gone to in issuing the Beethoven recordings of others . |
| 19 | IT is too much to hope that John Major 's vision of a ‘ classless society ’ can be realised at the drop of a hat but , if that what he wants , he might at least try to create a climate of equality . |
| 20 | It is too much to suggest that the " T R " of the Bignor mosaics ( pI . |