Example sentences of "been [vb pp] too [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The economic history of Byzantium has in the past been examined too much in isolation from the general course of medieval economic history . |
| 2 | Perhaps Dorothy had been shielded too much , and again in her marriage she had been protected , so that there had been nothing in her life to prepare her for what was happening now . |
| 3 | At the back of his mind was the fear that he had been given too much air , that his lungs could not sustain the pressure , that they would collapse as Commander Barnwell 's had collapsed . |
| 4 | She claims she would not have needed the operation if she had not been given too much of a drug to hasten the delivery . |
| 5 | Secondly , the struggle between Keynes and ‘ orthodoxy ’ has been depicted too much as a battle of theory , not enough as a conflict between rival conceptions of the art and duty of government . |
| 6 | Hill-farmers in the north of the country , or the famous millionaire shepherds near Sibiu , had been considered too poor to collectivize forty years earlier , and so had been left to themselves , at least as much as anyone was in the Socialist Republic of Romania . |
| 7 | The ability to understand the mistake made by another individual and the willingness to make the effort to correct it have been considered too much for non-human animals , because of the implication of intentionality of behaviour , and of a kind of consciousness . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh dear , you and your girlfriends … well , perhaps Tory could come too ? ’ she looked enquiringly at Marie , who admitted that Victoria had been considered too young to ride by her parents . |
| 9 | Maybe these potatoes have been lifted too early . |
| 10 | It 's been done too many times . |
| 11 | Yavlinsky refused Gorbachev 's invitation to the G-7 summit because , he claimed , his programme had been weakened too much to make it viable . |
| 12 | At first I thought I had been pushed too wide . |
| 13 | We had n't been disturbed too much by Trippy . |
| 14 | And I 'm aware that I 've been called too bland on occasions . |
| 15 | Their only concern was that , in the darkness , one , or more , of the ropes had been loosened too much and it would be noticed when they emerged from the back of the van . |
| 16 | Fig 57 Here the clew of the sail has caught in the water because the mast has been raised too high . |
| 17 | This dispute has been settled too late for the bill to be included in the parliamentary session that starts in November . |
| 18 | ( Experience has shown that the number of such permitted pixels has been set too low , so that the test is probably too sensitive . ) |
| 19 | Similarly , if the float has been set too high , or it has been damaged , and no longer floats on the surface , water will also reach the overflow . |
| 20 | However , the quota limits , determined largely by commercial considerations , are now believed to have been set too high . |
| 21 | In West Germany itself the 5% hurdle has sometimes been judged too high . |
| 22 | Conversely , avoid those with a hard chalk in the centre , as these are not ripe and may never ripen if they have been cut too young . |
| 23 | He 'd had a bad shave and his hair looked as if it was growing back after having been cut too short . |
| 24 | Schools , temples and churches have been hit too many times in the past few weeks to be the victims of mistakes . |
| 25 | For example , if an appeal court thinks that the victim of a motor accident has been awarded too small a sum of damages for injuries inflicted by the defendant 's negligence , it can increase the award . |
| 26 | What a pity the kangaroo had been discovered too late for Johnson s Dictionary : Captain Cook makes the first reference to it three years earlier , in his Journal for August 1770 . |
| 27 | Suddenly , it got stuck : the hole had been dug too narrow . |
| 28 | His eyes were hollow , dark rimmed with fatigue and worry ; his skin was unnaturally pale , the skin of a man who has been kept too long from the light . |
| 29 | This can eradicate the handicap if the operation is performed early , but mental handicap and spasticity will still have occurred where the operation has been conducted too late . |
| 30 | The Marsham Street development has been adjudged too brutal for the London landscape and will be knocked down to be replaced by a single six-storey scheme . |