Example sentences of "too [det] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He noticed too that for the first time since he had arrived at the Cages there was a total silence , as if all the eagles , and all the imprisoned creatures thereabout had instinctively understood that this old eagle 's troubled painful words marked an end to a terrible life ; and perhaps in some strange way the beginning of something none dared hope might come to pass . |
| 2 | Timeshare is not normally a solution SAVE would recommend for a historic house because so much of the expenditure goes on pure marketing , leaving too little for the building , but where it is well organized the outcome may be satisfactory . |
| 3 | If the room be too mean , and too little for the books ; if it be too much out of repair ; if the situation be inconvenient ; if the access to it be dishonourable ; is the library keeper to answer for it ? … |
| 4 | Maybe it has been charging too little for the uncertainties involved , but that is another matter . |
| 5 | But he has failed in his great ambition , and perhaps the task was too much for a man who has had to spend time inventing a new identity for himself . |
| 6 | The results of these Monday afternoon treks ( is at Nursery and I am not at work only Monday and Friday afternoon and Friday afternoon is not a good time to go bothering people ! ) were now covering rather more than a double page and indeed was too much for a single newsletter article . |
| 7 | It was too much for a little girl and I think it rather put me off chapel . |
| 8 | ‘ His project is too much for a town of 1,500 people . |
| 9 | It was as if , the weeks of turmoil and uncertainty that followed his father 's death having turned into months , the tumultuous turn of events had proved too much for a youth of his years . |
| 10 | They were certainly too much for a dismal Everton outfit and Chelsea should have had more goals as they eased on to the heels of the leading Premier League pack . |
| 11 | Banks which have expanded through acquisitions , notably Banc One and NationsBank , have developed models for measuring intangible values in order to avoid paying too much for a target . |
| 12 | The waiting outside in the wind and the snow had been too much for a majority of the newsmen who had shown up originally . |
| 13 | Er er the principle was that erm th the birth of a child is , it is painful but it 's not a pain too much for a mother to bear , that was the , the id the principle that they went on . |
| 14 | ‘ You 've got far too much for a girl of your age — ’ |
| 15 | ‘ As I was saying , you 've got far too much for a girl of your age . |
| 16 | high-profile job and the leadership of a professional association , which might have proven too much for a lesser , or older , man . |
| 17 | It 's a pity you ca n't manage the return trip by yourself , but it would be too much for a woman alone . |
| 18 | Doug Green suggests that it was too much for a teacher working in London for the first time : |
| 19 | According to the DoT 's own guidelines such a figure is too much for a dual carriageway . |
| 20 | I did not think £9 too much for a fine steak , or £150 too much for the sort of weekend that would cost £200 in Edinburgh or London . |
| 21 | With like at stake , she does n't think it 's asking too much for a reduced speed limit , crossing and street lights . |
| 22 | expecting too much for every item of industrial archaeology to be mentioned in two volumes which cover the whole of Scotland , and John R. Hume in " The Industrial Archaeology of Scotland , " Volume two , The Highlands and Islands , docs not explain why only some are selected . |
| 23 | If the upkeep of a garden is getting too much for an elderly person , and finance and willing helpers can be found , a suggestion that it should be paved , with a few easily managed tubs of flowers and shrubs at a convenient height , is often an acceptable idea . |
| 24 | That 's too much for an old lady . ’ |
| 25 | Here , Mrs Pettifer began to interject but the small gentleman silenced her with a flap of the wrist which was altogether not very gentlemanly and proved too much for the great lady detective who made a more purposeful interjection of her own . |
| 26 | When Sarah McCabe ( 1980 ) queried the logic of why just one police system should be entrusted with the control of crime , law , order , and social assistance , pointing out , ‘ there is some disagreement about the use of the criminal law — unease about control of the streets … [ which poses the question ] who will be controlled and [ who will be ] assisted ’ , she found the tenor of her ‘ thoughtful and moderate examination of the police role … was too much for the senior officers to whom it was presented , and they set out to discredit it with a will ’ ( Greenhill 1981 : 98 ) . |
| 27 | This , however , was too much for the Government and , using the excuse that public opinion was not yet ready to accept the protection of many unpopular modern buildings , Lord Caithness , the Minister of State for the Environment , arbitrarily whittled down English Heritage 's list to 18 buildings - excluding Bankside — although it represented a more traditional approach in the Fifties to the now-unfashionable Modern Movement . |
| 28 | However , a V8 would be too much for the Rover 800 's front-drive chassis — news ed |
| 29 | Besides , I 've done too much for the big pots . |
| 30 | The work of the court was too much for the judges ; and this cause of delay was aggravated by the dilatory character of the procedure , and by the time which some of the Chancellors took to consider their decisions . |