Example sentences of "[art] more reason " in BNC.

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1 If the game was for high stakes , if Pound 's livelihood was at stake , the more reason for playing the game circumspectly .
2 A. Then there 's all the more reason to make out a covenant .
3 ‘ All the more reason why he should have been having the full attention of you both , ’ Doctor Staples said sharply .
4 ‘ This is terribly tragic , but all the more reason for Arab mediation to continue , ’ an Egyptian diplomat said .
5 The longer this lies unused , the more reason shareholders have to ask whether they might prefer to invest their money themselves .
6 ‘ All the more reason then for them to have some knowledge of basic skills — ‘
7 All the more reason to welcome this private visit as it permits the cardinal to provide such a role , though he would be reluctant to accept , or even to anticipate , his casting in it .
8 Given the CEGB 's assertion that it might take ‘ decades or even centuries ’ for soils to recover , Robert Jones MP wanted to know , ‘ is that not all the more reason for getting on with it as quickly as possible and on as wide a scale as possible ? ,
9 But that 's all the more reason why we should go off this time with a car well filled , eh ?
10 Of course , there are often political reasons why this vision can not yet be fully realised but that is all the more reason why an understanding should be pursued .
11 All the more reason to send her out there , I said .
12 That is all the more reason , they believe , for keeping their crusade going , so that a wider public will react positively and begin to recognise the indicators of abuse .
13 All the more reason perhaps to increase the franchising activity north of Watford .
14 You do n't see luxurious leather-bound books in most homes , which is all the more reason you 'll be proud to see them in yours !
15 Of course the reverse may also be possible , that hostility and resentment build up , but this is all the more reason that a social worker should continue to be available for old people in residential care and the families .
16 English Heritage is a challenge of quite another order , being a vast multifarious organisation which probably needs to be disassembled , but all the more reason to entrust it to someone who understands at least some of its roles and can respect the quality of the people who work within it and who advise it .
17 The more work I make there the more reason I research the geography , social history , climate , agriculture , literature , music , painting and individuals associated with it .
18 If some material is lost already , that is all the more reason to stop a lapse becoming a loophole .
19 ‘ All the more reason you be forthright , ’ McGann said .
20 She is indeed a princess ‘ out of his star ’ : all the more reason not to drag her down to his level .
21 Amazingly the EMI Argerich/Rabinovitch Visions de l'Amen I reviewed only in December 1990 has already been deleted , along with the Labèque sisters in the Erato anniversary edition ( 4/89 ) , so there is all the more reason to welcome the Adès issue and to be quick about snapping it up .
22 All the more reason , then , why nominations should reflect the opinion of the majority of the party members on whose behalf they are made .
23 All the more reason , therefore , to deplore the proposed reduction in Government funding outlined by the minister on —
24 Mary Hume-Rothery , for example , stressed that the sexual oppression of poor women brought to light by the acts was all the more reason to give women the vote and extend their educational provision , so that they could exercise formal political power .
25 In a singing community of his peers he comes alive and discovers a sense of membership which is denied him elsewhere : all the more reason to embrace the slightly devilish and glamorous identity which is thrown at you by ‘ them ’ and sing along , ‘ We are the famous football hooligans ! ’
26 While it was generally recognized that the new novelists drew a great deal on their eighteenth and nineteenth century predecessors , this was regarded not as a fault but , on the contrary , all the more reason for admitting them as new bearers of the old standard ( Hansford Johnson 1949:235–3 , Wilson 1958:viii ) .
27 Oh well , all the more reason for the postcards .
28 ‘ That 's all the more reason for Georgina to make allowances for him . ’
29 ‘ All the more reason why we should turn back . ’
30 ‘ All the more reason why we should go on . ’
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