Example sentences of "set too " in BNC.
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| 1 | To set too high a standard tends to discourage a student unduly ; too lenient a standard , particularly if accompanied by few comments , may give a student a false idea of his/her examination prospects . |
| 2 | Appearance faults , according to the Breed Standard , include the following : Light , tall , greyhound-like in general appearance ; too long , too short , narrow body ; prominent occipital bone ; hound-like head and expression ; narrow , light , too short , too long , or coarse head ; flat forehead ( little or no stop ) ; narrow lower jaw ; long or pointed muzzle ; cheeks too protruding ; ram 's or split nose , bridge or nose dished or sloping ; tip of nose light or spotted ; open , pink or spotted lips , corners of the mouth open ; distemper teeth ; wrinkles on the head ; ears set too low , large , long , floppy , turned back , not lying close , or irregularly carried ; light ( yellow ) eyes , or a light and a dark eye , open , deep-set , too full , round , staring eyes , piercing gaze ; neck too long , thick , weak muscled , dewlaps or loose skin on throat ; forelegs set narrow or not straight ; light nails ; tail set too high or too low ; coat soft , too short or too long , wavy coat , absence of undercoat ; markings of the wrong colour , poorly defined or too extensive ; white spots ; dewclaws on the hind legs . |
| 3 | Horak forged ahead on his own but set too fast a pace and died at Elmbridge . |
| 4 | He stopped in his perambulation and his gaze fell on the table by the window ( set too high for children to see out of ) , on which was laid out a display of local history material . |
| 5 | If you do set too high , you may find that the first syllable spoken after a pause is distorted , especially on p's and b's , after which the overall level of the recording drops to a lower value as the speaker continues ; during the next pause in speech , the background slowly returns to its original value until the speech resumes , whereupon it falls again . |
| 6 | If you have too many coming out of the oven at the same time , some will set too hard while the others are being rolled up . |
| 7 | If you can hear a humming noise in the pipework , the cause may be the pump speed being set too high . |
| 8 | The forelegs , seen from the front , are straight and not set too close together . |
| 9 | Seen from behind , the back legs are straight and not set too close . |
| 10 | → The string oscillation is probably due to pickups being set too close to the strings . |
| 11 | Humming noises in pipework are often the result of the pump speed being set too high . |
| 12 | Similarly , if the float has been set too high , or it has been damaged , and no longer floats on the surface , water will also reach the overflow . |
| 13 | If the level of this is set too high , there may be an adjuster which controls it , or you may be able to simply bend the float arm down to the correct level . |
| 14 | It was feared that the push-bike was a health hazard , for example causing ‘ bicycle face ’ , ‘ bicycle hand ’ and ‘ bicycle foot ’ , as well as the dreaded kyphosis bicyclistratum , or ‘ cyclist hump ’ , which resulted if the handle-bars were set too low . |
| 15 | It does nevertheless require some expertise and the melody line is often set too high for congregations . |
| 16 | The threshold , perhaps , was set too high ; the courts , remembering the Moneylenders Act , tended to equate ‘ extortionate ’ with ‘ harsh and unconscionable ’ . |
| 17 | It was noted that the localiser deflection sensitivity of the No. 1 VOR was set too high and the flag alarm settings on both the localiser and the glideslope were such that the flags would not appear even when the signals were unusable . |
| 18 | If the phase resistance is set too high the a.c. current component is low and the power losses ( r ) are small . |
| 19 | If the constant clock frequency is set too high the motor is unable to accelerate the load inertia to the corresponding stepping rate and the system either fails to operate at all or loses steps at the start of its travel . |
| 20 | If the level was set too high , Michael could hear all right , but unfortunately so could the rest of the theatre , in a sort of ghostly pre-echo . |
| 21 | ( Experience has shown that the number of such permitted pixels has been set too low , so that the test is probably too sensitive . ) |
| 22 | If it is set too low , then Offline will accomplish its workload using less ‘ portions ’ ie. it will calculate how many blocks can be stored and then continue until it has achieved that workload regardless of the 15 minute factor . |
| 23 | If it is set too high then the end of tape may be physically reached and Offline will believe there is still space available . |
| 24 | If it is set too low , then the opposite occurs and Offline will believe the tape is full when there may be more space available . |
| 25 | If set too high these could damage the competitiveness of European exchanges by threatening the position of locals who are vital for liquidity on each exchange . |
| 26 | However , the quota limits , determined largely by commercial considerations , are now believed to have been set too high . |
| 27 | Endeavours to explain to a child the reasons for the restraints put upon him , may appear to be setting too much store on his intelligence , but this will not necessarily be so , for there is much evidence that adult training of children is very often obstructive rather than progressive . |
| 28 | Appearance faults , according to the Breed Standard , include the following : Light , tall , greyhound-like in general appearance ; too long , too short , narrow body ; prominent occipital bone ; hound-like head and expression ; narrow , light , too short , too long , or coarse head ; flat forehead ( little or no stop ) ; narrow lower jaw ; long or pointed muzzle ; cheeks too protruding ; ram 's or split nose , bridge or nose dished or sloping ; tip of nose light or spotted ; open , pink or spotted lips , corners of the mouth open ; distemper teeth ; wrinkles on the head ; ears set too low , large , long , floppy , turned back , not lying close , or irregularly carried ; light ( yellow ) eyes , or a light and a dark eye , open , deep-set , too full , round , staring eyes , piercing gaze ; neck too long , thick , weak muscled , dewlaps or loose skin on throat ; forelegs set narrow or not straight ; light nails ; tail set too high or too low ; coat soft , too short or too long , wavy coat , absence of undercoat ; markings of the wrong colour , poorly defined or too extensive ; white spots ; dewclaws on the hind legs . |
| 29 | Mr Perren tells me : ‘ By happy coincidence , on the very same day Ruth Prawer Jhabvala was in Bath on a film set too — the Merchant Ivory movie of The Remains Of The Day which she has scripted from the Kazuo Ishiguro novel . ’ |
| 30 | If it set too high , then performance will be poor since it will be completing its workload using a higher number of smaller portions than necessary . |