Example sentences of "[subord] ever [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But by the introduction of student loans , and the end of free tuition , it will make entry into higher education dependent more than ever on the size of a parent 's bank balance . |
| 2 | There is now more traffic than ever on the route and any hold-ups will spill on to the surrounding routes . |
| 3 | " There seem to be more fires than ever on the hill tonight , " said Louise brightly , hoping to divert Miriam from any further discussion of the Collector 's natural functions . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | We worked harder than ever at the Rose . |
| 6 | As the 21st century approaches , solicitors are more than ever at the forefront of commercial and community life . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | General Manager Rogerson added : ‘ We are running more trains than ever with a maximum of 26 per day in the height of our season . |
| 9 | Barbara Coleman would detest the solitude , the place would bring back memories of the good times and she would be confronted more than ever with the evidence that the good times had gone . |
| 10 | ‘ I have a great fear , ’ she whispered , more than ever with the voice of a seagull . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The pomp of Parks , Thompson and Dexter must seem further away than ever for a club that has now failed to progress beyond the group stages in 12 of the 21 Benson & Hedges Cup . |
| 13 | Then there were ads , more than ever for the sake of the season . |
| 14 | It started him thinking harder than ever about the woman who he was certain had borne his own child . |
| 15 | The use of continuing care beds for elderly people is being more closely scrutinised than ever as a result of the changing NHS culture . |
| 16 | Now this 21-year-old motor mechanic 's daughter looks stronger and better than ever off a four-handicap , and again showed what stern stuff she is made of with a thrilling tie-hole victory over Leinster international , Carol Wickham , at Royal Belfast . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Cut off more than ever from the society of my peers , I fell back on my mother . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The web of diplomatic contacts which had developed in western and central Europe over the last 200 or more years was now being extended further east by the full incorporation in it for the first time of the great new emerging state of Russia : henceforth events in eastern Europe were to be far more significant in the calculations of statesmen in the west than ever in the past . |
| 21 | But at least she did not squint and his cast seemed more noticeable than ever in the morning , as if sleeping refreshed it . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | She suddenly recollected that she was now the wife of the director of a large company , and drew herself up with what she hoped was some dignity ; but she only succeeded in looking more than ever like a pouter pigeon . |
| 24 | They turned and waited silently as Jackie Tiptoe 's distinctive shape , looking in the queer light more than ever like a gargoyle escaped from a cathedral , made its way across the grass with a swift , hiccupping run . |
| 25 | With her bouffant hair , her crimson lips , her plump raincoated figure hour-glassed by a tight belt , she looked more than ever like a matryoshka , a Russian doll . |
| 26 | In the half-light of the editing suite his face appeared more than ever like a mask , the nose attenuated , the skin smooth and polished . |
| 27 | Feeling more than ever like a cur , Neil turned the pages — but it was all of her that was left to him — and , he told himself firmly , he would read just enough to discover the truth about her … and why she had hoarded the cuttings . |
| 28 | He looked more than ever like a baby blackbird , rakish , half-strangled and very dear to me . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The colour flooded her face , then receded , leaving her paler than ever beneath the surface tan . |