Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] all [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had noticed it too , and I was all the more pleased with the prospect of doing something in what was coming to be my other sphere of interest , namely , literature and especially poetry . |
| 2 | It was an intriguing prospect and I was all the more curious why I had found one of his handbills in my chamber at the Golden Turk . |
| 3 | If these were things that could not be fully understood or controlled , then they were all the more menacing because they could not be avoided . |
| 4 | They were all the more tedious because they were reduced , for all practical purposes , to one question : why , after everything that has been put forward in this court , have you still made no attempt to visit 42b Milvain Street ? |
| 5 | Sepulveda justified the enslavement of the Indians on the grounds that they were the natural slaves mentioned in Book I of Aristotle 's Politics ; the Dominican Friar Las Casas admitted the frailty of the Indians but argued that they were all the more children of God owing to their very lack of capacity and skill , which still implies a sort of sub-humanity but of a different kind . |
| 6 | Brought up in the ethic of duty , this was hard for Jane to get used to , but when she broke out into the sunshine , it was all the more joyous , and she thanked God , or Nature , or Fate , or whatever power there is , that it had happened for her in her lifetime . |
| 7 | It was all the more striking because O had such a body ; he was magnificent . |
| 8 | It was all the harder because I could have given up at any moment . |
| 9 | But it was the nightmare — she needed the drink to cope with the nightmare , and because the nightmare was an image from her past it was all the more powerful , the images and details razor sharp . |
| 10 | It was a smell he had come to associate with Auguste Didier 's kitchens , and after an hour in Naseby 's company , it was all the more welcome . |
| 11 | She looked away , but not before her normally pale skin had flooded with colour , and it was all the more infuriating to know he 'd seen that too . |
| 12 | It was all the more remarkable given Franco 's condemnation , years earlier , of the loss of the last remnants of the Spanish empire , as he saw it , without a fight , and his disapproval of General Primo de Rivera 's decision to withdraw from Morocco in the 1920s . |
| 13 | He was all the more striking because the boast that he ran his papers just to make money contrasted strongly with the more complex motives , combining profit with politics , that were still typical of the proprietors of the early 1960s . |
| 14 | He was all the more determined to appear in control because his father-in-law was giving him the half-amused , half-pitying look , which Hugh interpreted as ‘ I know you 're sorry you 've got to put up with me . |
| 15 | He was all the more able to claim the triumph for himself in view of the fact that General Mola , leader of the Army of the North and " Director " of the 1936 conspiracy , was killed in an air crash on 3 June 1937 . |