Example sentences of "the more [adj] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet no one , it seems , can discover what lies behind Graham 's complaint — a condition which is all the more curious because on the surface his skin , while rather pale , seems quite normal . |
| 2 | Her earlier fears about what terrors lay in store returned , all the more powerful because for a few minutes she had forgotten them . |
| 3 | In the course of four decades almost half a million pounds were produced for the king by clerical taxation , and in fact its burden was all the more concentrated because of the absence of demands in the 1360s . |
| 4 | The further down her back the zip runs , the more tangible and at odds with the world is Rachel 's vulnerability . |
| 5 | Their position is made the more disadvantaged because of the hostility directed at them by white society . |
| 6 | While his crimes , he said , were not the ‘ worst form of indecent assault ’ they were made all the more serious because of his position . |
| 7 | Anyone looking at the photographs of the lift — and there are quite a lot — can not fail to be impressed by the engineering work , all the more striking because of its completely rural setting . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | His wide experience , combined with great technical and organizing abilities , enabled him to achieve improved efficiency in the railway workshops , which became all the more necessary when during the war tank , gun , and aircraft production and repair were added to their activities . |
| 10 | Easily Accessible : Greenrigg Hotel is situated at the foot of the Caldbeck Fells and only a mile from the Cumbrian Way in the more northern and in summer , less crowded area of the Lake District . |
| 11 | In the system to which the European Convention belongs , the judiciary are the legislators , and their powers as such are the more sweeping because of the necessarily vague and general terms in which the socalled human rights are defined . |
| 12 | He also enjoyed luxuriating a little after a meal , and at such moments he seemed all the more benign and at peace even with himself . |
| 13 | The distinctive contribution which our cathedrals make to Western culture is the more significant because of a world-wide recognition that they represent something unique . |
| 14 | This is all the more true because of a trend towards bigger finance houses , which are chewing into a shrinking cake . |
| 15 | This information is all the more important because of the official nature of coins , which thereby gives them an advantage over other more private inscriptions . |
| 16 | Nonetheless it is important that teachers understand similarities and differences in order to evaluate commonsense theories and scientific findings in their own work ; this is all the more important because of the scarcity of scientific investigation of the processes of classroom language learning . |
| 17 | So it is all the more remarkable that in France , Spain and Italy , where politicians hesitate before being less than wholeheartedly Europhile , parties have either come into government , or may soon do so , that are less enthusiastic about European union than those they replaced . |
| 18 | This is the more remarkable since by this time , its mother may have already given birth to another tiny baby that has made its way to the pouch and is fastened on to a teat imbibing milk of a quite different composition . |
| 19 | These achievements were the more remarkable because from 1937 to 1957 Turner was also director of the School of Oriental and African Studies ( as it became in 1938 ) with heavy administrative responsibilities . |
| 20 | To the enthusiast , the loss of no less than fourteen locomotive designs was countered by the application of highly distinctive sector liveries , all the more interesting because of the number of attempts made before the final choices were made . |