Example sentences of "[coord] all the [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is very much the hybrid sound of Africa , and all the better for it . |
| 2 | When they are dead and gone , we shall still be British , and all the better for it . |
| 3 | ‘ Broken ’ is a mini-album , recorded without the permission of the American record company , a much harder , uglier affair than the debut album , ‘ Pretty Hate Machine ’ , and all the better for it . |
| 4 | For the most part , however , this is Nielsen straight and unadorned , and all the better for so being . |
| 5 | After that they had decided to get across the other side and ‘ maybe give the girls a fright ’ , an entirely mad idea that could only end in tears , and all the better for it . |
| 6 | It 's a good story and all the better for being more or less true . |
| 7 | Most of the owners came down from the Clubhouse to watch the saddling of the runners in the Jockey Club Race Train Stakes , and all the sportier of them wore the rosettes . |
| 8 | But why should not one dying too soon for her years and too late by far for her comfort take pleasure in the sudden visitation of youth and freshness and beauty , however flawed , and all the more for its vulnerability and helplessness in a world none too kind to the weak . |
| 9 | Dentdale is a typical sixteenth-century English countryside , peaceful , undisturbed and all the sweeter for its absence of fast roads and speeding motorists . |