Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] ever [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Northern Foods shares are lower than they should be , because the stock market has got it into its head that competition is tougher than ever in the food business . |
| 2 | " With the ability to adapt itself to the changing requirements of the times , the school still lives , and its reputation stands as high as ever among the inhabitants of Stockport and the surrounding districts , and in educational circles beyond the extended parish of Stockport . " |
| 3 | The colour flooded her face , then receded , leaving her paler than ever beneath the surface tan . |
| 4 | But at least she did not squint and his cast seemed more noticeable than ever in the morning , as if sleeping refreshed it . |
| 5 | We are more conscious than ever of the need to take positive steps to promote the full access of girls and women not only to full educational opportunities but also to the whole range of community resources and services , including employment , leisure , housing , social security and the right to property . |
| 6 | That can not be compromised in any way so I shall still be as hard as ever in the ring . ’ |
| 7 | It claims that it is as unhappy as ever with the reforms : the NHS is still short of cash and the reforms are much too bureaucratic . |
| 8 | Souness , 39 , is training with his first-team squad every day and has warned them he will be as demonstrative as ever in the dug-out . |
| 9 | He thus revealed that he was out of touch with contemporary reality and that the complex dynamics of civilian society were more than ever beyond the grasp of his mechanistic , military mind . |
| 10 | As the 21st century approaches , solicitors are more than ever at the forefront of commercial and community life . |
| 11 | It was unshakable in its main bastion , Britain , and elsewhere the prospects of social revolution paradoxically seemed to depend more than ever on the prospect of the bourgeoisie , domestic or foreign , creating that triumphant capitalism which would make possible its own overthrow . |
| 12 | ‘ More than ever before the beer drinker and pubgoer needs a watchdog to protect their interests . ’ |
| 13 | Managers are more than ever in the public eye ; the scientific approach , in tactics , medical treatment , ground improvements , is commonplace ; floodlighting , numbered players , the ten-yard semi-circle are taken for granted . |
| 14 | Cut off more than ever from the society of my peers , I fell back on my mother . |
| 15 | On 1 December Cumberland moved some of his cavalry forward to Congleton , from which they withdrew after confirming the presence of Lord George Murray 's troops , but this intelligence left the Duke more undecided than ever about the Jacobites ' real objective , as his private secretary admitted in a letter , dated 2 December 1745 , to London : |
| 16 | He knelt as erect as ever at the table . |
| 17 | If attitudes to the content of the diabetic diet have changed radically , the importance of the regularity of meals and snacks is as important as ever for the patient on intermittent injections of insulin . |
| 18 | Consciousness of all these pressures did not improve Michael Banks 's concentration and , together with fatigue , ensured that the lines were worse than ever on the Friday afternoon run . |
| 19 | It started him thinking harder than ever about the woman who he was certain had borne his own child . |
| 20 | Over the next days , the girls swam , took long walks , talked , and ate Cook 's meals which seemed more wonderful than ever after the school 's frugal fare . |
| 21 | The rack-mounting multi-effects processor 's main generic competitor is the self-contained floor-standing unit , and the choice of the latter is now wider than ever with the arrival of Korg 's A4 . |
| 22 | Election Comment : Albany at Large : Royal and ancient PRINCESS Margaret 's eyes and tongue proved as sharp as ever at the preview of the Sovereign Exhibition at the V & A last week . |
| 23 | The brave Stewart , solid as ever at the back , played the entire second half with a bandaged head after a collision with an opponent . |
| 24 | Frequently coming into the net , but solid as ever from the baseline when she needed to be , she reached her second Australian Open final in three years . |
| 25 | When , after perhaps quarter of an hour , the ice was opaque and solid as ever around the sides of the refrigerator , she became impatient and tried to chip at it , first with her fingers and then , finding them painful as well as useless , with the point of a kitchen knife . |
| 26 | Officials in London and Washington have insisted the relationship is as strong as ever despite the transmission last night of a TV programme highlighting the help given to George Bush 's presidential campaign by Tory Party workers . |
| 27 | It is curious that such a close relative of the hibernating hedgehog , the mole — which also feeds on earthworms and insects — remains as active as ever during the winter . |
| 28 | The solid bulk of the nation was as dedicated as ever to the war , phlegmatic and unquestioning , turning a closed mind and a deaf ear to the tales men brought back from Verdun , in much the same way as when , to the succeeding generation , rumours began to filter out from the concentration camps . |