Example sentences of "[adv] [art] more [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Villagers would be all the more anxious to get the responsibility for him off their hands . |
| 2 | Knowing that nearly every parish in the country had their own guild or fraternity at one time , it is all the more frustrating to learn that little exists from the once vast stock of pre-Reformation funerary artefacts . |
| 3 | So it is all the more striking to see what happens when those known language experiences are translated on to the page of a book . |
| 4 | Our everyday awareness of these value-laden distinctions makes it all the more necessary to stress that in social anthropology ( and sociology ) ‘ culture ’ is a neutral term . |
| 5 | But if that examination were dropped , would it not be all the more necessary to retain A levels , emphasizing their role both as school-leaving certificate and as entry test for higher education ? |
| 6 | In such a situation it is therefore all the more necessary to recognize the unique place the ethnographer holds and to capitalize on it . |
| 7 | Cuddly Saddam Iraq is not a country one normally sees being defended , so it is all the more intriguing to read a glowing account of this thuggish regime by Tony Marlow , the right-wing Tory MP for Northampton North . |
| 8 | Because I have such regard for the right hon. Gentleman , it makes me all the more discontented to disagree with him about the proposition of permanent or automatic timetables . |
| 9 | I think for me I love erm er er er I love a challenge , and er I suspect the fact that before I went into it people said it was erm something which was erm absolutely impossible er er and that the their was no way that one could make a go of it erm made it made it made it perhaps all the more challenging to try to prove them wrong . |
| 10 | But this makes it all the more unreasonable to suppose that any a priori argument could show that one strategy will always be the right one . |
| 11 | If , of course , you reach the end of a marvellously sweet decade , it feels all the more threatening to leap pretty well blindfold into the uncertain next . |
| 12 | This makes it all the more important to arrive at the interview well prepared . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | And it also becomes all the more important to provide the context . |
| 17 | ‘ If that is so then it is all the more important to find out the truth , ’ she said quietly . |
| 18 | While some norms designed to secure proper management of police investigations are clearly desirable , the inevitable tensions that some of them produce make it all the more important to have some systematic verification of the truth value of the police case . |
| 19 | Given the expense of engineering reports it is all the more important to check out the expert 's fitness before commissioning the report . |
| 20 | Because the elite , through their superior wealth , are better able to live up to the so-called modern values , which are all the more costly to support because of their external source , they are further differentiated from the poor . |
| 21 | ‘ Marty Quinn and myself have been trying to rebuild the side and , considering the turnover in players , it 's all the more pleasing to have got this far in the cup . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Consequently , the decision was all the more difficult to comprehend , and Close 's manager Barney Eastwood was both furious and dumbfounded . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | His clients were rich and demanding , and all the more likely to notice a botched job . |
| 30 | 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 . |