Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] all the " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 The fact that everyone was waving tiny American flags made this spectacle of labour all the more bizarre .
2 John Simon found Dustin ‘ always endearing with that sour-grapefruit face and voice of his , both of which , paradoxically , ooze the juice of human kindness ’ , while David Thomson thought that Dustin ‘ was near his best , managing old age easily and riding the picaresque adventures of a put-upon outcast all the better because of his own denial of starriness .
3 Out of all her workmates , Kerry was possibly the least friendly , which made her current show of concern all the more special .
4 Two features of the present cultural climate make this element of conviction all the more necessary .
5 Electronic mail makes the importance of context all the clearer .
6 Their expertise lies in enabling others and others to take advantage of arts facilities and helping them erm or working with them to produce the things that happen , for example all the erm posters which were up during last years festival erm were produced in conjunction with community arts which erm has erm er produced on Ditchfern Place , erm and earlier this morning I was thinking that up as I think other councillors did , that more serious of projects which community arts are now entering into er in Chesterton in particularly in the children erm I think councillors went to Dickfield women 's photograph project and it is things like that about giving people confidence to join arts in a way erm with which they might never otherwise have experienced and the community arts have taken just that .
7 Before learning about our infertility , we had already planned to adopt ‘ hard-to-place ’ children , and so , with little prospect of natural children , we applied for adoption all the sooner .
8 The fact that the Council 's Structure Plan , in which their planning policy is enshrined , has not yet been accepted by the Secretary of State makes these changes in direction all the easier .
9 So I mean , maybe they need a course in theory all the more for that reason , I do n't know , I think a lot of them would have real problems with it .
10 Let us begin then with a brief review of what we know about the ego 's past in order all the better to be able to understand something about its present and future .
11 Now that rigor mortis had set in it was in fact all the easier to lift him .
12 It is in fact all the better for a prolonged wait in the cold .
13 Those who would have fallen ill even under moderate sexual restrictions succumb to illness all the earlier and more severely under the demands of our present civilized sexual morality ; for we know no better security against the menace to normal sexual life caused by defective predisposition and disturbances in development than sexual satisfaction itself .
  Next page