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Meanings of receive too in English

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Usage of receive too in English
1
That can normally be suppressed, providing it doesn't receive too many associative triggers.
The evolutionary void
2
Now pray practise economy, for you certainly receive too much money.
Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826, Volume 2
3
If you receive too much advice, it can confuse you.
The Guardian
4
All this cannot receive too high a mead of praise.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
5
These, Sir, are propositions which cannot receive too much attention.
The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster / With an Essa...
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Polzelli; otherwise so many of my poor relations with greater claims would receive too little.
The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 1
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These facts, we believe, cannot receive too careful attention.
The American Missionary — Volume 42, No. 12, December, 1888
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He feared old Mr. Turveydrop might consider it undutiful and might receive too great a shock.
Bleak House
9
I receive too much attention in the daytime, and it puts less shame on your Aunt's house.
The Precipice
10
A mandarine is whipped, for having ordered a pickpocket to receive too few or too many blows.
An Essay on the History of Civil Society, Eighth Edition
11
I've watched him receive too often; he's about the easiest man I know to ring in short ages on.
The Outlet
12
Other not less weighty reasons strengthen these-canwe receive too kindly those persons who take charge of our souls?
The Physiology of Taste; Or, Transcendental Gastronomy
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They believe miscarriage could occur if foetuses receive too much oxygen - before they are developed enough to withstand it.
The Irish Times
14
Christophe, who did not receive too much sympathy from his family, had been glad to see him at some of his concerts.
Jean-Christophe, Volume I
15
Then follows the famous myth, which is a sort of parable, and like other parables ought not to receive too minute an interpretation.
Phaedrus
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Turner said the public were generally kind to him and he did not receive too much hassle from admirers and people who recognised him.
The Guardian
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