Example sentences of "than ever the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ie became more than ever the pre-eminent entity in society . |
| 2 | Up to the autumn of 1960 the underlying divergences between himself and Debré had not prevented the two of them from working together closely ; after de Gaulle 's speech in November 1960 , the policy became less collaborative and more than ever the exclusive domain of the presidency . |
| 3 | In ( quite accurately ) evoking the hoary old spirit of punk , it helps that The White Horse is smaller and more cramped than ever the original Marquee was ; that the stage is only centimetres off the floor and resembles a cloakroom , as bags and coats are dumped onstage ; that there are mates and friends standing virtually onstage and the whole place is a hot , airless , shambolic morass of so-called Huggy nationalists . |
| 4 | Amiss suspected they had been hammering the port harder than ever the previous night . |
| 5 | In Drenthe , feeling more than ever the despised outcast , he found consolation in a human resting place . |