Example sentences of "too great [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Guy de Chauliac had pointed out that his ointment was not without dangers if used in too great a quantity . |
| 2 | BELVILLE : I have no reason to be ashamed of that duel you refer to since it was to save a friend , but suffer not your tongue to take too great a liberty with my Pamela . |
| 3 | Too great a reliance on self-financing would , however , require prices which were well above long-run costs ( or as it was differently but conventionally expressed in the contemporary discussion by officials , would burden present-day consumers with an unfair proportion of the costs of supplying electricity in the future ) . |
| 4 | Hugh Cunningham has listed four simple but major difficulties he faced as a teacher when trying to break away from " too great a reliance upon the textbook " : |
| 5 | There are still critics , however , who believe that only the more profitable routes will be retained in this system ; that it places too great a reliance upon operators identifying socially important routes , and seeking and obtaining subsidies to maintain them ; and that a piecemeal system will result . |
| 6 | Because of economic and other pressures , schools in South Asia may place too great a reliance on a curriculum trapped between the covers of a book . |
| 7 | This , then , is the first stage of reacting to loss : denial — shock that something bad has happened — is our psyche 's way of defending us from experiencing too great a sense of harm too quickly . |
| 8 | To stare at an empty vastness would be dispiriting ; perhaps also it would bring about too great a sense of isolation . |
| 9 | If too great a reduction is required , go round again and start the descent further away ( careful ! ) , or lower . |
| 10 | The Puddephat business was exerting far too great a hold on her ; she must put her mind to all the business connected with the new academic year . |
| 11 | It was his belief that too great a degree of inequality within a society would prevent a common will or common interest from developing , and that is surely correct . |
| 12 | It has cut down our industries in comparison with those of our competitors to too great a degree . |
| 13 | An excess of meats and spices cause aggression while too great a consumption of dairy foods and those with a high fat content may bring about depressive tendencies and lethargy . |
| 14 | Indeed , these comparisons could be dangerous if they are accorded too great a prominence in an analysis of the impact of money wage-price deflation on employment . |
| 15 | In the case of docu-mentary credits and performance bonds and guarantees the banking mechanism provides the requisite homogeneity for the ICC Rules ; the failure of the Uniform Rules for Contract Guarantees resulted from a different factor , namely too great a separation from commercial practice . |
| 16 | There is a danger in indulging in too great a diversity of material and outlook and , as biogeographers have been few in number , diversity could lead to the continuing omission of the study of the impact of human activity . |
| 17 | It proved technically difficult to test whether these cells fled from acid conditions because they died when exposed to too great a gradient , although they could move about well in extremely acid conditions . |
| 18 | After Hugh 's dismissal in 1172 Louis VII kept the office vacant for some years : Hugh had been too great a man for it to be wise or safe to raise up a successor to him . |
| 19 | Over-awed , converted both by her persuasion and her gold , Boult remains in prose ( any change would have been too great a transformation ) , yet agrees to help her . |
| 20 | As a result of these , too great a blame for dioxin contamination was placed on the chemical industry . |
| 21 | The dangers of professionalism are obvious , and against them Herbert Chapman steadfastly set his face … victory can be purchased at too great a price . |
| 22 | In some cases , and especially where the witness has no interest in the outcome of the case , the lost opportunity to assess demeanour is of no great significance ; in others it is too great a price to pay . |
| 23 | As I had anticipated , he gave his kind permission after not too great a delay , and furthermore , Mr Farraday was good enough to remember and reiterate his generous offer to ‘ foot the bill for the gas ’ . |
| 24 | To have devised the material ‘ in house ’ using DES and HMI would have been and would have been seen to be unhealthily parochial ; to have used the National Curriculum Council would have involved too great a delay . |
| 25 | Cheap currants , especially if they are used in too great a proportion to other fruits , are bitter and can ruin a cake . |
| 26 | As an undergraduate , says Walton , if he had a fault it was ‘ that he kept himself retired and at too great a distance with all his inferiors ; and his clothes seemed to prove that he put too great a value on his parts and parentage ’ . |
| 27 | It is difficult to understand why the judges selected his design for second prize , as the assessors had rejected it by saying that it was ‘ Too expensive and involving too great a sacrifice of property ’ , and were supported by Brunel and Burn . |
| 28 | Thus in a case where the ‘ principles of good forestry ’ dictate that felling should take place , and would result in too great a sacrifice of amenity , the owner can claim compensation for the loss which he suffers . |
| 29 | It could also prove too great a hurdle for Mr Gould , a well-known Euro-sceptic , who made clear that he would be pressing for Labour to rethink its economic policy and to advocate realignment of the pound within the European exchange rate mechanism to enable it to put forward more positive policies on industry and employment . |
| 30 | The absence of the Bentham brothers and Trevor Robinson proved too great a hurdle against a competent home team that recovered from being 22–6 down after five minutes to take a 22–13 lead , then run the bench for a 77–49 victory . |