Example sentences of "[det] [subord] ever [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These commercial matters were as much as ever in his mind . |
| 2 | He thus revealed that he was out of touch with contemporary reality and that the complex dynamics of civilian society were more than ever beyond the grasp of his mechanistic , military mind . |
| 3 | He looked more than ever as if stamped out of metal . |
| 4 | As the 21st century approaches , solicitors are more than ever at the forefront of commercial and community life . |
| 5 | His voice was filled with tenderness , his eyes dark with understanding , and she nodded , loving him more than ever at that moment . |
| 6 | Now dad Brian needs him more than ever with Forest taking on Norwich at Carrow Road tonight reeling from three successive defeats . |
| 7 | She felt that she was longing more than ever for it to end so that she and John could spend all their time together . |
| 8 | At thirteen she felt trapped by the system of growing into a woman , which seemed to be separating them , and longed more than ever to be his son . |
| 9 | It was unshakable in its main bastion , Britain , and elsewhere the prospects of social revolution paradoxically seemed to depend more than ever on the prospect of the bourgeoisie , domestic or foreign , creating that triumphant capitalism which would make possible its own overthrow . |
| 10 | ‘ More than ever before the beer drinker and pubgoer needs a watchdog to protect their interests . ’ |
| 11 | Someone suggested she touch up her lipstick , but make-up only made her look more than ever like the Spitting Image puppet of Bette Midler . |
| 12 | With her bouffant hair , her crimson lips , her plump raincoated figure hour-glassed by a tight belt , she looked more than ever like a matryoshka , a Russian doll . |
| 13 | She surveyed the scene , feeling more than ever like Dante in the Inferno . |
| 14 | She suddenly recollected that she was now the wife of the director of a large company , and drew herself up with what she hoped was some dignity ; but she only succeeded in looking more than ever like a pouter pigeon . |
| 15 | He looked more than ever like a baby blackbird , rakish , half-strangled and very dear to me . |
| 16 | In the half-light of the editing suite his face appeared more than ever like a mask , the nose attenuated , the skin smooth and polished . |
| 17 | He looked more than ever like Don Quixote confronting the most formidable of spectral windmills ; and his tenor voice blazed from a reed to a trumpet in his indignation . |
| 18 | Feeling more than ever like a cur , Neil turned the pages — but it was all of her that was left to him — and , he told himself firmly , he would read just enough to discover the truth about her … and why she had hoarded the cuttings . |
| 19 | It was in the reign of ‘ Farmer George ’ that drainage became more than ever in vogue , ‘ improvement ’ being all the rage . |
| 20 | Managers are more than ever in the public eye ; the scientific approach , in tactics , medical treatment , ground improvements , is commonplace ; floodlighting , numbered players , the ten-yard semi-circle are taken for granted . |
| 21 | Ours are just figureheads and that shows more than ever in wartime . ’ |
| 22 | Now , from the mid-seventeenth century onwards , they were more than ever in evidence , as pamphleteers and propagandists ready to justify them grew in numbers . |
| 23 | Cut off more than ever from the society of my peers , I fell back on my mother . |