Example sentences of "had been too [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that Black Fury had been too controversial and yet too muddled to scoop up the prizes did not mean that it was time for Warner Bros to stop being ‘ sociologically-minded ’ . |
| 2 | The brandy , which they had been too polite to refuse , had made them drunk in a very short time , as they were not used to drinking anything stronger than beer . |
| 3 | On the previous day he had been too tired and bewildered to size him up . |
| 4 | The last time she had walked down this lane she had been too anxious about Susan to notice very much . |
| 5 | The supper had been too good , the weather was too pleasant and the company too friendly to worry about newspaper stories . |
| 6 | The day had been too good to smudge with complaints . |
| 7 | Prison had been too good for him and although he declared himself innocent of any crime , he was most certainly guilty of fecklessness , leaving important matters of finance in the hands of his greedy younger brother . |
| 8 | Of course , she missed her family , but her father 's promotion to foreign correspondent had been too good a chance for him to miss . |
| 9 | In some ways I thought it had been too easy for me . |
| 10 | It had been too easy . |
| 11 | George decided to plunge ; he had already given away too much if Mr Nightingale himself was one of the List , but George did n't think he was , simply because he had been too easy to find . |
| 12 | The drums had been too loud to hear the preliminary ripping , so when the tree suddenly crashed to the ground , no one moved . |
| 13 | He had not heard them pass him ; he had been too intent on watching the singer . |
| 14 | Rather than concluding that I had been too radical in Opposition , I fast came to the view 1 had been too cautious . |
| 15 | Dr Myra Ramos , the associate dean of educational services , thinks that the sudden explosion of the new pathway would have been impossible if Tosteson had been too cautious in his original plans . |
| 16 | Content with humiliation , satisfied with disappointment , I had been too selfish to reach out . |
| 17 | Harold Macmillan and Anthony Eden shared the same reaction ; the young Robert Boothby was one of the few who were disappointed by the Armistice , because he had been too young to fight . |
| 18 | He had been too young to read the note but he could still remember how that table had looked when he came in , its top at the time the height of his own shoulder . |
| 19 | Bentley had been sentenced to hang because his accomplice , Christopher Craig , despite having fired the shot that killed a policeman , had been too young for the rope . |
| 20 | He had been too young to understand the complications which human beings establish for themselves , or the complex meaning of love . |
| 21 | Aged fifteen when the Franco-Prussian War ended , Pétain , unlike Jot–re and de Castelnau , had been too young to participate . |
| 22 | That had been the crux of the problem the whole way through — she had been too passive , allowing Adam to call the shots with no more than a token protest . |
| 23 | We would n't have found it difficult to reconstruct the exchange even if we had been too far away to hear what was said . |
| 24 | Ashton had shouted one last thing at him , but Steven had been too far away , breathing deeply , an expression of triumph on his face , He 'd got away from them . |
| 25 | If the preceding analysis is correct , then Gundovald 's support can be seen to depend on three different groups : there were members of Childebert 's court , seemingly anxious to keep their options open until the king was recognized as being of an age to rule ; there were men who had been followers of Guntram , but whose positions had been compromised ; and finally there were military leaders who had been in the service of Chilperic , but who had been too far from court at the time of his murder to ensure their survival under Chlothar II , whose own succession could scarcely be taken for granted . |
| 26 | It had been too far in the future for either of them to contemplate during the whirlwind few hours that had led to their arrival . |
| 27 | Police said other stations had not been evacuated because a warning call from the terrorists had been too vague . |
| 28 | She has given voice to those who thought that previous Conservative governments had been too tolerant or ‘ defeatist ’ about the unions , the welfare state , high taxation , and public spending , and too accommodating to other countries , particularly in the European Community and the Commonwealth . |
| 29 | Another , already in November 1941 explaining the drop in morale , remarked that ‘ the hope of an early peace had been too general ’ , and , within a few weeks , that ‘ the hope of an early end to the war has been abandoned ’ . |
| 30 | Suddenly it came home to me with tremendous force that this was my last chance , the very last of all the countless chances I had thrown away just like this , because I had been too lazy or too proud to exploit them properly . |