Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | It is a common fallacy that the wind does all the work in a water start by pulling you on to the board . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Similar pipe in black neoprene , polyethylene or rubber can be adapted ; in fact , on a carbon frame the neoprene looks all the more professional . |
| 10 | Angel felt all the more determined to keep to his choice . |
| 11 | And the question becomes all the more pertinent because ‘ Thomas ’ is not a name at all . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A day made all the more wonderful by the confirmation that SCUM had been beaten by Chelsea . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The Boos ' welcome maturity makes Sugar appear all the more primitive and pained . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Initially the analyst does all the work , leading the user towards a system he thinks is right for the business . |
| 20 | But the very fact that the French were the most intransigent as regards releasing Germany from the cruelties of the Versailles treaty made all the more imperative the need to bring to the gathering at Darlington Hall at least one French gentleman with unambiguous influence over his country 's foreign policy . |
| 21 | To them Heathcote does all the wrong things , says all the wrong things , and writes in the wrong way . |
| 22 | The server does all the work of finding the information , so in theory the user can ask any question and get an answer . |
| 23 | Easter Monday saw both Leaders Of The New School and the Pete Rock & CL Smooth partnership playing debut UK gigs at different London venues , a situation made all the more frustrating when they 're on the same label . |
| 24 | Ace made love to her in a silence made all the more potent when her roving caresses forced him to respond with a groan of pleasure as they touched each other intimately . |
| 25 | Such allegations paved the way for justification of the German occupation of Denmark and Norway in April 1940 — justification made all the more credible by the appearance , at almost exactly the same time as the German navy , of British warships in Norwegian waters and of British troop landings at Narvik and Trondheim . |
| 26 | Auto-cook/heat allows you to programme in the type of food and its weight , then the oven does all the rest — some models use an automatic sensor for this . |
| 27 | But when war came the persistent pedal-point of coalitionism sounded all the louder for the sudden silence of the party truce . |
| 28 | The Braun Oral-B Plaque Remover does all the work for you . |
| 29 | Soon the tannoy system announced all the lower school messages : Mrs Joiner and I were deafened and it was sufficiently painful for me to feel relief when it stopped . |
| 30 | Night had descended quite suddenly , and , as neither of them had bothered to switch on any lights , the house was in complete darkness , a darkness made all the heavier by the remnants of the storm outside . |