Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] all [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Housework is defended as ‘ real ’ and ‘ hard ’ work , a defence made all the more necessary because of the low status and value conventionally accorded to it . |
| 2 | But as around 1,000 mourners shivered through a ceremony made all the more moving by its simplicity and brevity , there was little bitterness evident — only bewilderment . |
| 3 | But the political significance of this culture is that where opinion counts and where the catholic — nationalist remnant actually experiences the coercive power of protestant loyalists and the British army in the Northern statelet , there violence has all the more support . |
| 4 | Paul Scott 's Raj Quartet , a fictional foursome collected in 1976 and with the pendant of a fifth novel , Staying On ( 1977 ) , is a vast canvas devoted to the transfer of power in India and its sequel : too close in time to be seen , altogether clearly , as historical fiction , too distant in place to be a shared world ; though like E. M. Forster before him , Scott chose an alien sun to define the outlines and shadows of the English abroad , where their habits of mind look all the sharper , odder and more endearing against the background of an exotic land . |
| 5 | Into extreme old age he would lecture about Temple 's mind in words rendered all the more penetrating by the obvious gratitude which the memory brought . |
| 6 | It is a common fallacy that the wind does all the work in a water start by pulling you on to the board . |
| 7 | Five of his friends thought the article referred to him — an identification made all the more far-fetched by the fact that the fictitious character was described as a Peckham Church Warden . |
| 8 | However , its calculatedly oblique and enigmatic avoiding of a direct statement — a withholding made all the more tantalizing in that it includes no less than eighteen declarative verb forms — could have a remarkably powerful effect if we imagine it being read by the person whose unnatural behaviour it describes . |
| 9 | Its ideal location at the foot of the Black Forest , with France to the west and Switzerland to the south contributes all the more to Freiburg 's distinct charm . |
| 10 | Similar pipe in black neoprene , polyethylene or rubber can be adapted ; in fact , on a carbon frame the neoprene looks all the more professional . |
| 11 | Small creatures moved and stirred amongst the undergrowth , the snapping of twigs and mysterious rustling noises sounding all the more ominous in the green cold silence of the forest . |
| 12 | Angel felt all the more determined to keep to his choice . |
| 13 | ‘ You just admitted blacks do all the worst jobs , the dirtiest , hardest jobs . ’ |
| 14 | And the question becomes all the more pertinent because ‘ Thomas ’ is not a name at all . |
| 15 | The thumping , street-tough beats of label owners and producers , PJ and Smiley , may never entirely disappear , but the sparse nod towards hardcore works all the better against Nicolette 's sugar-sweet , jazzy vocals . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Furthermore , at a time of indeterminacy and change like the present , where there is frequently no strong institutional ideology to subscribe to , individual values matter all the more . |
| 18 | Because the hospice is extending its service to include a day hospice costs are set to increase dramatically and the donations from groups and individuals became all the more valuable . |
| 19 | This makes the conclusion reached all the more impressive , and certainly forces one to take seriously the possibility that even low-level exposure to lead may have gravely deleterious effects on children 's behaviour and intelligence . |
| 20 | When adolescence is enforced or prolonged , as it tends to be in closed institutions , these needs become all the greater . |
| 21 | What with these little niggling worries you 've had about the size of the crowd at Ayresome Park , coupled with some very obvious annoyance at Newcastle and Sunderland grabbing all the attention while the Boro do all the winning … |
| 22 | Acer does all the hardware development and manufacturing , whilst the Altos unit adds Unix software ( and some hardware ) functionality . |
| 23 | Helen does all the cooking , discussing the menus beforehand with her guests . |
| 24 | Dr. Kerrison does all the cutting up . |
| 25 | A day made all the more wonderful by the confirmation that SCUM had been beaten by Chelsea . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The problem is that rock-climbers do all the hardest stuff in this game . |
| 28 | On the other , members often say that they do n't feel involved ; that committees do all the work without reference to them . |
| 29 | The Floyd Rose does all the usual things , like letting you tie knots in the low E string , and the arm is firm with no clunky play . |
| 30 | With both railways only ten miles apart , however , it makes the SDR figures all the more remarkable because both have been subject to the same local economic situation and relative decline in tourist numbers . |