Example sentences of "than ever [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It is therefore more than ever necessary that the recovery should be export led rather than led by domestic consumption .
2 It is therefore more than ever necessary that the recovery should be export-led rather than led by domestic consumption .
3 In my view these characteristics serve only to require the court to be more than ever cautious before concluding that Parliament really intended to exclude one of the immunities which I have listed ; and as I have suggested , the words of the Act of 1987 admit of no doubt .
4 ‘ The need for action is more than ever apparent , ’ said Coun. John Williams ( Lab ) .
5 Yet the Commonwealth was after all invented at a time when the British were more than ever enamoured of their capacity for effecting the bloodless obedience of subject peoples .
6 However , securing organizational change and a move to more entrepreneurial strategies demanded more than ever political skills and access to political resources , and this led to a reversion to earlier patterns with the appointment in 1985 of a chairman closely linked to the PSOE .
7 We are ‘ involved ’ in the most thoroughly mediated war in history but now more than ever vicarious contact with the front line via blanket news coverage fails to guarantee comprehensibility , still less access to the truth .
8 Sam was more than ever convinced that she could not be .
9 More than ever convinced that something was wrong , Breeze hurried up the street .
10 Dear love , I get plenty of time to think about us these days , and I 'm more than ever grateful that I have been given such a wonderful person as you to be my wife .
11 finally , a new political awareness was making Colonial populations more than ever critical of their relationship with the metropolis , Britain , for the first time in her modern Imperial history , was literally unable to deliver the goods .
12 It is therefore more than ever essential that we modulate our human scale through all the new processes of social order that are about to dawn .
13 In times of severe economic stringency , it is more than ever essential that painful strategic choices should be based on sound information about the need for and effectiveness of services .
14 Exploitation of the press , radio and television would be more than ever indispensable , as would awareness that image matters not in a figurative sense only : votes can be won and lost by hair-styles , complexions , teeth and apparel .
15 but obviously I must succeed for Yorkshire first , and with a batsman , Sachin Tendulkar , joining us instead of another quick bowler it is more than ever important that I do so . ’
16 His eyes were getting used to the dim light and , as she emerged into a whole shape under the fanlight , he was more than ever conscious of how beautiful and how youthful she was .
17 This was a mood that did not last ; the secular spirit is natural , it is more than ever clear , to modern industrial states — so much so that it invades even the clergy .
18 My practical mastery had made me acutely aware of the boundaries which separate those inside the institution from those excluded from the specialist knowledge of ‘ doing the business ’ and I was more than ever aware of the suspicions which would have been aroused if I had introduced questions of an academic nature , or had distributed questionnaires .
19 I have nothing but admiration for those hardy woodturners who have put the clock back a few hundred years and are making furniture with their pole lathes , but it has made me more than ever aware that the wood lathe has changed very little over the years .
20 He was more than ever aware of the control which Burun was capable of exercising over the affairs of the Kha-Khan 's court .
21 But by 1989 Jamaica was heavily indebted and more than ever dependent upon the bankers and financiers .
22 Advanced foundations — Max Factor 's High Definition Foundation , £5.49 , contains moisturisers and sunscreens but the difference is that it contains smaller than ever coloured pigments .
23 Interdependence makes the point that the increasing linkages among national economies have made them more than ever sensitive and vulnerable to events in other countries .
24 And yet at Millfield she had been more than ever concerned about her appearance , wanting to be well-dressed and attractive at all times .
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