Example sentences of "too [adj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason : New Forum is sceptical about too hasty a unification of the two German states , and about market economies . |
| 2 | Even for the more careful managers , their decade or so of good fortune had far too weak a base to survive . |
| 3 | France was simply too weak a power — in military , economic , or political terms — to pull this off . |
| 4 | One is a theme of er presidential frustration the idea that the presidency of the United States is too weak an institution to cope with the responsibilities that it faces . |
| 5 | Perhaps too much has been expected of it : education policy is too weak an instrument for counteracting the great weight of inequality in British society . |
| 6 | Such a weapon would be particularly useful when dealing with a school , because the myriad moving bodies produce too confusing an echolocation picture for the dolphin to be able to single out a victim . |
| 7 | Television was still too scarce a resource — and politically and commercially too important — to be granted the freedom to exploit the richness and diversity of contemporary life . |
| 8 | Adorno speaks from the vantage-point of modernism ( though , as we have seen , he arguably gives this too monolithic an interpretation ) : his ideal is an individual critique , which is negative in relation to society but also constitutes a positive synthesis — an alternative . |
| 9 | Well , ladies and gentlemen , I think you 'll agree that some of John Maynard-Smith 's early engineering training showed through , as it were , in reverse order , if that 's not too heretical a statement to make in this context , in the gentle good natured demolition job that he did on the main current critical attacks on Darwin 's mechanism , and particularly on the rhythms of change that Darwin adumbrated within his own time scale . |
| 10 | Try not to adulterate such healthy basics with too rich a dressing . |
| 11 | The unaccustomed air of the realms above — ; Too sharp , too rich a mixture for her shrunk lungs — ; He stopped and said ‘ One last thing I must show you . |
| 12 | Because of modern methods of food preparation and presentation , and the trend to make foods more appealing by adding saturated fat and refined sugar , slim people as well as their weightier friends are likely to be eating too rich a diet . |
| 13 | Using an excessive amount or too rich a moisturiser on combination skin will congest it and lead to blocked pores and spots . |
| 14 | I use grapeseed oil for mayonnaise , finding that olive oil gives too rich a flavour . |
| 15 | It 's far too strenuous a game ! |
| 16 | His uncle , the Duke of Albany , was content to act as Regent after Robert III 's death without making too strenuous an effort to liberate the rightful king . |
| 17 | ‘ Investors often take too short-term a view of unit trusts ’ |
| 18 | He says : ‘ Investors often take too short-term a view of unit trusts , so if exit charges encourage longer term holdings it would be in the consumer 's interest . ’ |
| 19 | Years later we returned to Bira to learn that the shaman 's prediction that he " would die by water " had come to pass in rather too literal a sense . |
| 20 | How many of the popular novels of the past evoke derision rather than appreciation if we read them in too literal a spirit ! |
| 21 | It is the emotional and dynamic tug of a story which must prevent us from reading in too literal a spirit . |
| 22 | Many companies and consultants have used the approach ( see Hapeslagh , 1982 ) , and those using it will generally be intelligent people who are not going to make naive errors through too literal an interpretation of a simple box diagram . |
| 23 | The phrase ‘ no action shall be brought ’ is too specific a reference to legal process for that to be a tenable construction . |
| 24 | It would be inadvisable to try to lay down too specific a strategy , because of the immense variety of English language knowledge and experience within the group loosely categorised as bilingual children . |
| 25 | He was far too polite a driver . |
| 26 | In Rosemary 's book , ‘ lecherous , cretinous , oversexed reptile ’ was too polite a term for a man who seemed to think any female working for his father was fair game . |
| 27 | Was it too universal a theme for the Gaelic fund committee to tackle , too big a scale of project , too close to reality and too controversial a subject ? |
| 28 | Perhaps conspiracy is too strong a word . |
| 29 | ‘ Totalitarianism ’ is not too strong a word . |
| 30 | The heart of the government 's economic difficulty is sterling , and the credibility of Mr Major 's indications ( if that is not too strong a word ) that he will defend it . |