Example sentences of "seem all [art] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Robyn Penrose is winding up her lecture , and Vic Wilcox is commencing his tour of the machine shop , Philip Swallow returns from a rather tiresome meeting of the Arts Faculty Postgraduate Studies Committee ( which wrangled for two hours about the proposed revision of a clause in the PhD regulations and then voted to leave it unchanged , an expenditure of time that seemed all the more vain since there are scarcely any new candidates for the PhD in arts subjects anyway these days ) to find a rather disturbing message from the Vice-Chancellor 's office . |
| 2 | He also enjoyed luxuriating a little after a meal , and at such moments he seemed all the more benign and at peace even with himself . |
| 3 | You may just be bored with your current relationship , and your boredom is making the idea of an affair with a woman seem all the more exciting . |
| 4 | At the same time , the very seriousness of the crisis and the desperate resort to terrorism that its collapse prompted among the pieds noirs made some kind of speedy settlement seem all the more imperative . |
| 5 | Combine it with a visit to Hearts of Darkness — A Film-maker 's Apocalypse , Fax Bahr and George Hickenlooper 's superb documentary about Coppola 's difficulties in getting the film made , and the achievement seems all the more impressive . |
| 6 | She seems all the more objectionable because so many people have been falling over themselves to help her . |
| 7 | That 's what made it seem all the more strange when she turned in on herself , so to speak , in the end . ’ |
| 8 | By grossly exaggerating the victim 's treatment of the accused in order to gain sympathy for the latter he had instead made it seem all the more likely that he had meant to kill . |