Example sentences of "all [art] better " in BNC.
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| 1 | The conversation moves on , all the better for the comment , not infrequently the gayer for it . |
| 2 | This is very much the hybrid sound of Africa , and all the better for it . |
| 3 | The films were inevitably foreign and subtitled , and even if we did n't understand them it was as though through exposure to some cinematic photosynthesis we would absorb the esoteric and become all the better intellectually for it . |
| 4 | Gods whose ways co-existed with farming and nature now functioned all the better in the guise of saints . |
| 5 | When they are dead and gone , we shall still be British , and all the better for it . |
| 6 | They will have less exhausting and dangerous weekend travel and the cricket they play on Sundays , although some habitual spectators may object to missing their Sunday lunch , should be all the better for the extra 10 overs . |
| 7 | ‘ I feel all the better for that . |
| 8 | When a research project is written up it will probably not be any grandiose offering ( indeed it will probably be all the better for not being grandiose ) , but if the research has been carried out with scrupulous attention to detail and accuracy and the statement of results does not go beyond the limits justified by the data then a useful craftsmanlike job of work will have been accomplished . |
| 9 | Well all the better for the breastfeeding — Do you know , Inverdarroch her wee Roderick-dhu , he 's four and a half … |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm well , Miss Julie , all the better for having seen you . |
| 11 | My grandmother therefore moulded my life , and I believe I am all the better for it . |
| 12 | He is all the better as a witness , since one can not doubt that he genuinely sought instruction . |
| 13 | There the Kaszubians occupied smallholdings ; all the better farmland towards the coast had long since been taken over by the Germans . |
| 14 | As it was by now one o'clock Cumberland 's staff suggested the men might halt to have their dinner but he replied , according to tradition , ‘ No , they 'll fight all the better on empty bellies . |
| 15 | The 20th century may have been slow to arrive in Langtoft , but it is all the better for that , and whilst the village has now caught up with modern times , it remains a haven of peace from the mad pace of town and city life . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | If you have lost pounds too , all the better . |
| 18 | The result is that Jarvis has put on more than half a stone — he 's up to 11 and ahalf now — and feels all the better for it . |
| 19 | The game at Twickenham today will be all the better for the inclusion of the National Anthem . |
| 20 | The thumping , street-tough beats of label owners and producers , PJ and Smiley , may never entirely disappear , but the sparse nod towards hardcore works all the better against Nicolette 's sugar-sweet , jazzy vocals . |
| 21 | Any work that involves ‘ waiting ’ or ‘ cab rank ’ service is all the better for the mathematics of operating a piston-powered airliner . |
| 22 | She felt all the better for it . |
| 23 | And the piece was all the better for it . |
| 24 | ‘ Broken ’ is a mini-album , recorded without the permission of the American record company , a much harder , uglier affair than the debut album , ‘ Pretty Hate Machine ’ , and all the better for it . |
| 25 | ‘ All the better for seeing you , Connie . ’ |
| 26 | All the better if that changes when you alter the date in your spreadsheet . |
| 27 | And the party was all the better for not being spoiled by a strike by lecturers which had been threatened earlier in the week . |
| 28 | If , in addition , what he says and how he says it , in other words his style , provide further clues , all the better . |
| 29 | For the most part , however , this is Nielsen straight and unadorned , and all the better for so being . |
| 30 | It is in fact all the better for a prolonged wait in the cold . |