Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] ever [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Members hope to convince Mr Milburn that he should be targeting criminals who find it easier than ever to get hold of an unlicensed firearm . |
| 2 | Indeed , I consider it more opportune than ever to extend to the entire ecclesiastical community an initiative already observed in some countries and regions that has yielded truly valuable pastoral results . |
| 3 | The harmony between Europe 's big six — VW , Fiat , PSA , Renault , GM and Ford — looks more likely than ever to persuade the commission to go for a transitional period longer than three to five years . |
| 4 | Advertising is as poor as ever resulting in the production of ‘ The Embalmer ’ being a continued drain on Institute resources . |
| 5 | His sisters were still at home , unwilling as ever to comprehend him , only making him feel oafish , prematurely old , unclean . |
| 6 | Now we need more than ever to remind ourselves of what Ellen Willis has written : |
| 7 | The indigenous media need more than ever to promote lasting peace with justice , through ecumenical and interfaith dialogue . |
| 8 | A letter of 1871 gives a vivid sense of the convictions which impelled her throughout her life : ‘ As I have grown older the terrible sufferings of women of my own class for want of good elementary training have more than ever intensified my earnest desire to lighten ever so little the misery of women brought up ‘ to be married and taken care of ’ and left alone in the world destitute . |
| 9 | Neither admitted to the other that each was tortured by fear : now they had more than ever to lose . |
| 10 | As a result , the brunt of investment pressures will have to be borne by an ever-decreasing stock of pubs ; and what good pubs we have left will be more than ever exposed to the cold winds of change . |
| 11 | A lecturer at the Architectural Exhibition of 1861 noted that ‘ we can not afford to ignore the element of association which now more than ever connects our idea of churches with good Gothic architecture . |
| 12 | It is now more than ever clear that every section of society needs to be involved in responding to AIDS , including the churches . |
| 13 | Entering the third year of the Intifada , it is more than ever clear that time is of the essence : how to keep it going long enough at a level which does not yield to the temptations of ruinous , reciprocal escalation , but still disturbs the outside world enough to get them to bring the Israeli extremists to heel . |
| 14 | This remaining wing was built in about 1640 , a time when local builders were more than ever turning their craft into a conscious art . |
| 15 | The demands of the workers were more than ever focused upon political change . |
| 16 | One of the top ANC men came back from the Dar Es Salaam talks and told us , ‘ I am more than ever convinced that violence is not the way . |
| 17 | The rest 's history , but he now more than ever wanted to win the British Open . |
| 18 | She was more startled than ever to find that it was the moon , full and bright , riding the night sky like a silver chariot . |
| 19 | It is then more important than ever to include some topsoil to introduce the essential bacteria . |
| 20 | If there is a possibility of the authority in question being overruled , it is more important than ever to mention its status in the judicial hierarchy , as well as stating any objections that have been urged against it . |
| 21 | It is more important than ever to develop methods and policies to retain members . |
| 22 | With premiums on many cars set to double AGAIN this year it 's more important than ever to find a way to cut costs on cover . |
| 23 | It was , he continued , more important than ever to ensure that leases were well-drafted so as to make landlords and/or tenants fully aware as to whether or not their insurance policies covered damage caused by terrorism . |
| 24 | It is therefore more important than ever to reject the ‘ primordialist ’ theory of ethnicity , let alone of national self-determination . |
| 25 | In a culture more and ore unified by the mass media , it is more absurd and anachronistic than ever to separate the middle-class from the working-class , the potentially academic and scholarly from the rest , in terms of the teaching they will receive at school . |
| 26 | It was worse than ever getting up the companion , much worse than last time . |
| 27 | It will be more difficult than ever to see the composer as he really was , and is . |
| 28 | For example , it has become more difficult than ever to reconcile the proprietary brand of ‘ backbone of the nation ’ style racism , with the aggressive body politics of the ‘ territorial armies ’ who march under the banner of Millwall or Manchester United . |
| 29 | After his return to London from Pontardulais , Edward and Helen were finding it more difficult than ever to contain their desire for complete sexual union . |
| 30 | And it seemed perfectly natural , given the circumstances , that the child should be named Hope " , though nobody knew whose idea it had been originally … probably not Mrs Wright 's , however , for though in every respect resembling a Madonna , she was finding it more difficult than ever to stay alert . |