Example sentences of "too high [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The food there did n't taste too different and we were spared a cabaret but I reckon £30 is n't too high a price for eating in a beautiful , traditional-style Moroccan room with the well heeled jet set , being served by obsequious waiters in costumes that would put to shame Aladdin 's chorus at the Palladium . |
| 2 | The United States decided that isolation with Israel from the consensus of the whole world community was too high a price to pay . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's too high a price to pay for the moon , ’ Nan had said . |
| 4 | ‘ But living without women is something we decided had to be done — it 's not too high a price to pay for fame . ’ |
| 5 | Puffer , for instance , suggests that the restricted family life a psychological career demands is too high a price for women to pay , and urges them , instead , to study ‘ borderline subjects ’ , a ‘ fringe of specialist research ’ , or do consulting , criticism , and reviewing ( Furumoto and Scarsborough 1986 : 41 ) . |
| 6 | Initially it appears as an act of balance , with vigorous debate between those who think that censorship is never worth it , and those for whom pornography is so dangerous that censorship is not too high a price at all . |
| 7 | ‘ But it 's too high a price . ’ |
| 8 | Does not the right hon. Gentleman believe that that is too high a price to ask the people of Britain to pay in order that he may put the divisions of the Conservative party before this country 's long-term prosperity ? |
| 9 | the r reactions on Halcyon , of those reactions thirteen hundred , there were thirteen hundred relate to deaths of the users , and that 's just too high a price to pay . |
| 10 | is it is it too no no we 've got to come back here , is this too high a price to pay ? |
| 11 | But some say it 's been too high a price to pay . |
| 12 | She even sold her house in Germany to pay for it , and while she 's happy to stretch this little two seater to the limit in practice , lasting damage to the Bar-Belle Bomber would be too high a price to pay for victory … |
| 13 | David Howell , chairman of the Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee , said China would recognise that ‘ destabilising and smashing Hong Kong is far too high a price to pay for China 's hopes in the modern world . ’ |
| 14 | But Coun Dr Ann Macleod said : ‘ I think it is too high a price to pay because the housing in the north-east corner will affect far more people than the loss of the National Gallery . ’ |
| 15 | percent is too high a figure . |
| 16 | If you use too high a concentration , it irritates and it stains even more than the dilute stuff does . |
| 17 | BASIC NEED Although South Cleveland already had a scanner and North Tees and South Tyneside were promised them , Mr Stewart did not think there was too high a concentration of the machines in a small area . |
| 18 | A common cause of sore throats and eyes is too high a room temperature , causing low relative humidity ( dryness of the air ) . |
| 19 | So had they put too high a sort of level for subsistence ? |