Example sentences of "[art] more [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Having done so much good among them , the people were all the more prepared to listen to his teaching . |
| 32 | It is clear that the racial/religious dimension to parental choice of school is likely to become one of the dominant issues in education in the 1990s , making the preference versus policy dichotomy all the more difficult to resolve . |
| 33 | But , in another sense , she is full only of other people 's emptinesses , and so her own remains , mingled with theirs and therefore all the more difficult to deny . |
| 34 | But because of the very vagueness of form in the crime novel it is all the more important to bear what it is constantly in mind , and all the more difficult to do so . |
| 35 | Finally , it is therefore the more difficult to see how the proposals can have anything to do with genuine industrial democracy , that is to say , with the accountability of the board of directors as a corporate whole to the individual men and women who constitute the workforce and who would have the ultimate power to replace an unsatisfactory board . |
| 36 | I have left the more difficult to last : the recession . |
| 37 | The longer the older teenagers remained at Dovercourt , the more dissatisfied they became and the more difficult to control . |
| 38 | Consequently , the decision was all the more difficult to comprehend , and Close 's manager Barney Eastwood was both furious and dumbfounded . |
| 39 | Ibrahim al-Sanusi then spoke : the more serious the offence , the more difficult to make peace , the greater the compensation had to be ; it was important to know the offence . |
| 40 | It is an important test , for impotence will not only be a poor recommendation of Community cohesion ; it could make it all the more difficult to stem the tide of bloody anarchy that could so easily engulf large tracts of Europe which we recently rejoiced to see set free . |
| 41 | Another newer variety rapidly replacing the more difficult to grow ‘ Cox 's Orange Pippin ’ , ‘ Fiesta ’ looks similar , has the same flavour , flowers mid-season , produces larger fruits , crops twice as heavily and even produces a fair crop with no pollinator . |
| 42 | Although this second method is the more complicated to administer and requires that we have at least a rough idea of the size of the primary sampling units , it has some advantages that become obvious when we recall that several primaries are generally sampled : |
| 43 | A subsequent collection of writings affirmed the right of the more civilized to appropriate the lands of the less : |
| 44 | And if the Soviet leader kept silent in Peking in May , as hundreds of thousands shouted his name during the demonstrations at Tiananmen , he seems the more likely to say nothing which might inflame passions so comparatively close to home . |
| 45 | Once we accept that fact , we can relax and enjoy the relationship , knowing that , because we are not tying them down , they are all the more likely to remain our friends and even to continue to come to us for support and for advice . |
| 46 | Jaq had been blinded — had his eye-screen stolen by agents of Carnelian — so that he would see even less of the picture than before and would be the more likely to call in such a vigorous and essentially useless assault . |
| 47 | And though Villa 's lively attack looked the more likely to score , they never looked like recovering after Kiwomya had given his side a deserved lead . |
| 48 | Without this kind of activity , the difficult balance to be struck between essentially paternalistic decision taking and responsiveness would be all the more likely to swing towards the former . |
| 49 | His clients were rich and demanding , and all the more likely to notice a botched job . |
| 50 | Mona , two years younger , was the more likely to clash with him , but this day she agreed to be ruled by Maggie 's acquiescence . |
| 51 | The latter option is the more likely to produce a stable , peaceful and united Ireland in the long-term . |
| 52 | This contrast may , of course , reflect to some degree the personal inclinations of the authors : it has been suggested in the previous chapter , for example , that Taskopruzade 's interests tended to the antiquarian , which would make him all the more likely to emphasize the old virtues of piety and learning . |
| 53 | Moyola looked the more likely to get the winning score on the resumption and it came when Ruddock , who was unlucky earlier with a header which struck the Tobermore upright , sent in from the wing in the 79th minute and their big outside left Calderwood was on hand to head to the net . |
| 54 | Knowing her husband , if he could be led to believe that the royal castle of Berwick might be alienated from the crown and actually given to him for his services , he would be the more apt to accede to the arrangement , being a man of acquisitive mind . |
| 55 | This makes it all the more important to arrive at the interview well prepared . |
| 56 | It is the more important to record this because he did not seek the public eye . |
| 57 | It is , therefore , all the more important to round off this discussion of the privileging of the gaze by looking at the work of critics who positioned themselves outside the psychoanalytical framework . |
| 58 | This being so , it is all the more important to end by underlining what I take to be gained by the acceptance of my proposal that concessive holism should be adopted as the most fruitful approach to social explanation . |
| 59 | And it also becomes all the more important to provide the context . |
| 60 | But because of the very vagueness of form in the crime novel it is all the more important to bear what it is constantly in mind , and all the more difficult to do so . |