Example sentences of "been [adv] too [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been altogether too much to expect . |
| 2 | John Dunner , the head of the National Radiological Protection Board , in an aside , made the interesting suggestion that perhaps there had been altogether too much information available about nuclear energy , rather than too little , ready material to use , either uncomprehendingly or fully aware , to stoke up polemical fires . |
| 3 | There 's been altogether too much guilt — too much pain already . |
| 4 | Perhaps the Prime Minister ( with his Standard Chartered schooling ) considered that a third Rothschild man at the Treasury would have been just too much . |
| 5 | She was close to cracking up now , these final revelations had been just too much for her , she could n't cope with them , not on top of everything else that had happened today . |
| 6 | It was not heavy at all and moving would have been just too much effort . |
| 7 | She 's been under too much stress I think . |
| 8 | Colin MacLeod , chairman and owner of Nottinghamshire-based Caledonian Mining , which competed against the consortium for the pit , said : ‘ There has been far too much in the press about the poor miners being done and that we were the big bad boys coming up to take over . |
| 9 | There have been far too many examples of artists ‘ living for the moment ’ , putting their faith in others to run their career , and waking up to find themselves penniless , out of favour with the public and feeling rather stupid . |
| 10 | It was a disgraceful affair and over the past few years there have been far too many riots in our prisons . |
| 11 | It is one of the facts of the computer world that there have always been far too many different printer types for the programmers to support and printer manufacturers have never managed to catch on to this simple fact . |
| 12 | There have been far too many cases of abuse in which local authorities have contrived a system of competitive tendering under which only the direct service organisation could win because special conditions were imposed . |
| 13 | That sleeping peaceful beauty had been almost too much for her . |
| 14 | Since they published the ’ Sanitary Protection Scandal ’ ( a report on the production of sanitary towels , tampons and ’ disposable ’ nappies and their health and environmental implications ) , the level of response has been almost too much for WEN 's small City Road office . |