Example sentences of "the more [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time , however , Ure warns that the team is not there to handle day-to-day risk management and the general belief is that the more responsibility for that is pushed down to line management , the better . |
| 2 | The more countries for which patent protection is sought the more expensive the operation becomes but the expense may be worthwhile if it is intended to exploit the invention internationally . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | If the game was for high stakes , if Pound 's livelihood was at stake , the more reason for playing the game circumspectly . |
| 5 | ‘ This is terribly tragic , but all the more reason for Arab mediation to continue , ’ an Egyptian diplomat said . |
| 6 | 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 ? , |
| 7 | While it was generally recognized that the new novelists drew a great deal on their eighteenth and nineteenth century predecessors , this was regarded not as a fault but , on the contrary , all the more reason for admitting them as new bearers of the old standard ( Hansford Johnson 1949:235–3 , Wilson 1958:viii ) . |
| 8 | Oh well , all the more reason for the postcards . |
| 9 | ‘ That 's all the more reason for Georgina to make allowances for him . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ All the more reason for not , ’ said Hilary Frome . |
| 11 | ’ All the more reason for providing her with a diversion . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ All the more reason for me to start taking my share of the load as soon as possible . ’ |
| 13 | All the more reason for Lorraine to look for a bigger home . |
| 14 | And so this is something that is going to touch an awful lot of people if it does turn sour , so all the more reason for me to be able to explain how I see it , and as I say , to hear how , what people think about the crisis . |
| 15 | At a time when food and money are shorter , there is all the more need for adequate health care . |
| 16 | Accordingly , when the Virgilian voice does irrupt into these relatively late Cantos , it does so with all the more force for being unheralded . |
| 17 | The more fully we have developed ourselves the more cause for such gratitude we will have , and the more we understand the cosmos , particularly by grasping the true nature of detailed parts of it and their place in the total scheme , the more we will appreciate the sheer wonderfulness of it , and arrive at a kind of mystical adoration of it . |