Example sentences of "[subord] ever [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet the physios have been busier than ever on tour . |
| 2 | To Sara , more hard-pressed than ever at Lime Street , the intellectual and emotional sympathy binding Coleridge and Dorothy must have been both apparent and distressing , even if Dorothy , in De Quincey 's words , was a woman possessing ‘ no personal charms ’ : on only the second day of the visit Coleridge and Dorothy were occupied together correcting his poems for the new edition while Sara was left to carry the domestic burdens of the teeming cottage . |
| 3 | Reports from Lebanon suggest that British hostages could be closer than ever to freedom . |
| 4 | His security undermined , he was now more vulnerable than ever to Mauve 's voice and its cutting edge , to his cold eyes , the touch of condescension . |
| 5 | That was why , Claudia saw suddenly , Fleur had clung more than ever to Dana after their father 's death . |
| 6 | Now the country is opening its doors wider than ever to tourists . |
| 7 | The whole momentum of the 1984 Act , with its emphasis on detention , interrogation , and confessions , has made the right to silence more vulnerable than ever to allegations that it is out of date , too favourable to criminals , and anachronistic . |
| 8 | The Asian , Muslim and Arab communities are now being threatened more than ever with attacks , harassment , detention and deportation . |
| 9 | Now dad Brian needs him more than ever with Forest taking on Norwich at Carrow Road tonight reeling from three successive defeats . |
| 10 | She suspected that life must be harder than ever for Sarah , left on her own with a small son to bring up and a houseful of strangers to cater for , and she made a resolution to visit Sarah more often . |
| 11 | There is more need than ever for employers and colleges to work together to meet the needs of providing sufficient well qualified operatives , supervisors and managers for the industry . |
| 12 | As an advocate of the STV has observed , if an MP is " forced by the system to spend his working hours worrying about the number of first-preference votes he will get at the next election , and many of his sleeping hours dreaming about them , he or she will work harder than ever for constituents ' " |
| 13 | Yet the way to respond to provocation must be cool and calculated , avoiding knee-jerk reaction and pressing the Government harder than ever for action , rather than words . |
| 14 | There is a greater demand than ever for men possessing good judgment , trustworthiness of character and the power of dealing intelligently and thoughtfully with new conditions . |
| 15 | It is now more feasible than ever for organisations to switch from their expensive proprietary machines to lower-cost Unix computers . |
| 16 | WITH THIS week 's hike in interest rates , homebuyers should be more careful than ever about advertisements for mortgages with seemingly low rates of interest . |
| 17 | Sara went about her business , more troubled than ever about Jenny 's imminent arrival . |
| 18 | But he was concerned to prevent the system becoming a greater burden than ever through malpractice of the sort which the Worcester monk Hemming reports when he says that estates were sometimes taken even when the money due had been paid on time . |
| 19 | With these LM potencies she is feeling stronger than ever without aggravation and is currently taking 0/7 . |
| 20 | I was less moved than ever by M. Chaillot 's little lecture on his responsi-bilities to the public purse . |
| 21 | I am thinking , for example , of the city of Belfast and other urban areas throughout Northern Ireland which in the past year have suffered more than ever from air pollution . |
| 22 | In December 1946 de Gaulle was further than ever from power , while the world was closer to war . |
| 23 | Ours are just figureheads and that shows more than ever in wartime . ’ |
| 24 | It was in the reign of ‘ Farmer George ’ that drainage became more than ever in vogue , ‘ improvement ’ being all the rage . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ In a year which has seen more investment than ever in drama on S4C , it is wonderful not only to have audience acclaim in Wales but critical acclaim of professional peers in the RTS. ’ he said . |
| 27 | And belonging together , preferably in groupings with visible badges of membership and recognition signs , is more important than ever in societies in which everything combines to destroy what binds human beings together into communities . |
| 28 | The two control sample carers ( Mrs Mitchell 's daughter and Mrs Wilkins ' nephew ) were both still quite definite about wanting to see their relative in institutional care ; Mrs Mitchell 's daughter said that she was becoming more and more anxious about her mother being at risk at home ; and Mrs Wilkins ' nephew saying that she was more than ever in need of care , and the strain upon him of having to cope with her difficult personality was making him wish even more acutely for institutional care . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | She surveyed the scene , feeling more than ever like Dante in the Inferno . |