Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] all the [adj -er] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Electronic mail makes the importance of context all the clearer .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 It is in fact all the better for a prolonged wait in the cold .
6 Now that rigor mortis had set in it was in fact all the easier to lift him .
7 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 .
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