Example sentences of "all the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They expect servants to be invisible , but they expect the work to be done all the same , ’ put in Ethel . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Since the busy fencings and ditchings of the previous thirty years , the men who farmed the best land had flourished all the more ; they could afford the rents for the greater acreage under the plough . |
| 4 | It was a childhood rich in the family traditions of Judaism , one that was made to feel all the more in need of protection , thanks to the brutality against them and their people in Europe . |
| 5 | Distanced from the day-to-day world of his youthful and not-so-youthful listeners , he could speak with all the more understanding , all the more authority , to their needs . |
| 6 | Distanced from the day-to-day world of his youthful and not-so-youthful listeners , he could speak with all the more understanding , all the more authority , to their needs . |
| 7 | All the more for us . |
| 8 | Accordingly , when the Virgilian voice does irrupt into these relatively late Cantos , it does so with all the more force for being unheralded . |
| 9 | So all the more thanks for Question Time ( BBC 1 ) , showing simultaneously on the other side , in which Mr Baker had no choice but to sit opposite Arthur Scargill and John Smith , all marshalled impartially by Peter Sissons , controversially and expensively replacing Sir Robin Day . |
| 10 | It seems all the more of a waste if those long , cold hours only result in stale fish . |
| 11 | It exists all the more by being in the same place as power . |
| 12 | In the shadow of that history there is all the more to appreciate about the way progressive movements in our time have turned things around , and begun positively to identify the difference of the other : ‘ the emphasis on discontinuity , the celebration of difference and heterogeneity , and the assertion of plurality as opposed to reductive unities — these ideas have animated almost an entire generation of literary and cultural critics ’ ( Mohanty , ‘ Us and Them ’ , 56 — 7 ) . |
| 13 | A. Then there 's all the more reason to make out a covenant . |
| 14 | ‘ All the more reason why he should have been having the full attention of you both , ’ Doctor Staples said sharply . |
| 15 | All the more pity , therefore , that , in his sweeping dismissals of British cinema where there seemed nothing to praise beyond Humphrey Jennings ' poetic documentaries , he refused any engagement with the darker elements in the native cinematic culture . |
| 16 | ‘ This is terribly tragic , but all the more reason for Arab mediation to continue , ’ an Egyptian diplomat said . |
| 17 | This leaves the Philistines [ middle-classes ] for the great bulk of the nation ; — a livelier sort of Philistine than ours , and with the pressure and false ideal of our Barbarians taken away , but left all the more to himself and to have his full swing . |
| 18 | ‘ All the more reason then for them to have some knowledge of basic skills — ‘ |
| 19 | All the more reason to welcome this private visit as it permits the cardinal to provide such a role , though he would be reluctant to accept , or even to anticipate , his casting in it . |
| 20 | Given the CEGB 's assertion that it might take ‘ decades or even centuries ’ for soils to recover , Robert Jones MP wanted to know , ‘ is that not all the more reason for getting on with it as quickly as possible and on as wide a scale as possible ? , |
| 21 | I know that you worry , even though I beg you not to , and I love you all the more for being so sweet about it . |
| 22 | Fortunately , their gibes have fallen on deaf ears and all the more credit is due to those gentlemen who , in face of considerable discouragement , have succeeded to such a marked extent . ’ |
| 23 | Indeed , his increased persistence of late may even be my employer 's way of urging me all the more to respond in a like-minded spirit . |
| 24 | It will occur all the more if there is residual moisture in the cavity arising from the building process , or if it seeps in either from inside the house or from some external source . |
| 25 | It hurt her all the more and she slumped to her knee . |
| 26 | But we need to get our moral thinking clear on this matter all the more because in the first stages of unbridled conflict both sides seem to be suggesting that there really was no moral problem at all because the principle that they were obsessed with was the only one that mattered . |
| 27 | But that 's all the more reason why we should go off this time with a car well filled , eh ? |
| 28 | He was an ex-miner , and this endeared him all the more to Chapman , who , being familiar with mining , knew and admired the strength and fighting qualities which life down the pit bred in a man . |
| 29 | All the more in classical law , when the formal and procedural differences still applied . |
| 30 | Of course , there are often political reasons why this vision can not yet be fully realised but that is all the more reason why an understanding should be pursued . |