Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] all the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ You just admitted blacks do all the worst jobs , the dirtiest , hardest jobs . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | When adolescence is enforced or prolonged , as it tends to be in closed institutions , these needs become all the greater . |
| 6 | 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 … |
| 7 | The problem is that rock-climbers do all the hardest stuff in this game . |
| 8 | On the other , members often say that they do n't feel involved ; that committees do all the work without reference to them . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The political realities of the division of Korea made the Korean people appreciate all the more the value of the assistance provided by the Soviet Union : |
| 11 | It has rubble-stone walls and its steeply pitched roofs make the granite-capped chimneys seem all the higher . |
| 12 | Such measures become all the more important when the overdose is a repeat . |