Example sentences of "made [pers pn] [adv] [art] more [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tribesmen might indeed be benighted savages , but they could still stir the liberal conscience — especially when their very primitiveness and simplicity made them all the more vulnerable to exploitation by unscrupulous Europeans . |
| 2 | The duties attached to some of these appointments were not too arduous , which made them all the more attractive to a landed gentleman with other interests but a great desire for an increased income . |
| 3 | Always small things , nothing she could have a qualm about accepting , which made them all the more delightful . |
| 4 | Their small majority made them all the more conscious of the problems they needed to surmount to win the next election . |
| 5 | This absence of news made me all the more careful , and an hour after leaving camp I arrived without mishap at an open glade near the top of the hill , within a hundred yards of the forest road . |
| 6 | She got up early to muck him out and groom him and exercise him , and she babysat nearly every evening to keep him in good oats ( not Uncle Knacker 's ) and shoes , and when she saw the riders she was up against in the collecting ring , with their adoring parents and their fat cheque-books , it just made her all the more determined to beat them , because determination was all she had . |
| 7 | It was a sad thing to Beth , and one which only made her all the more determined to draw Matthew back into the family fold . |
| 8 | The Tehran trip in May , in which he was humiliated , made him all the more certain that however good the ends , ‘ this was not the kind of exchange that was proper . ’ |
| 9 | It made him all the more determined to do something . |
| 10 | In her heart , Beth sensed that he knew the way of things , and this only made him all the more determined to have a son of his own . |
| 11 | Making no attempt to disguise his anger at the Ulster decision John Hunter added : ‘ The fact that it was a blanket no , and that it was n't even person to person , made it all the more galling . ’ |
| 12 | So far they had done precisely that , which made it all the more extraordinary that Julius should be here now , in her flat , actively seeking her out for the first time since he had overridden all his basic instincts and principles and strode out of her life ; away from the disastrous shambles of their marriage . |
| 13 | That I could put no name to it made it all the more tantalizing , like a song when only the tune remains and the words are lost by time . |
| 14 | He said it very simply , which made it all the more believable . |
| 15 | That his distress was so foolish , made it all the more poignant . |
| 16 | It was , as the Duchess said in her speech , an exciting event because Derbyshire had so few smaller manor houses of this type open to the public — and what made it all the more special was the fact that Eyam Hall is still the family home of the Wrights , who built ( or rather rebuilt ) it , a few years after the plague , in 1671 . |
| 17 | And the minority who chose to behave in this way were mostly aware that they had no one to blame but themselves — which made it all the more painful . |
| 18 | She knew that the Princesse suspected her of having taken Andrzej as a lover , but that only made it all the more plausible . |
| 19 | This discovery made it all the more important to me to maintain my behaviour and to maintain it in secret . |
| 20 | But the prospect of even more income from the delivery , made it all the more imperative that I got on and off Fraxilly safely . |
| 21 | And that made it all the more thrilling , especially when she recalled some of the women he 'd been photographed with . |
| 22 | We rarely saw its summit , lost as it would be in thick mist , but its mystery made it all the more attractive and seductive . |