Example sentences of "[adj] all the " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Is n't that all the more reason to give him your support ? ’
2 2 Chronicles 24 : 10–11 All the officials and all the people brought their contributions gladly , dropping them into the chest until it was full .
3 What made this all the more piquant was that so far from being free , the holiday was in fact bankrupting me .
4 They confirmed it was 32 per cent bigger all the way around than the plans allowed for — and now councillors have ordered the Foys to pull down the house , claiming it was built too big deliberately .
5 It gets bigger and bigger and bigger all the .
6 If he wanted to act like an uncivilized person-which is what he must be and you could see it clearer all the time-then let him alone .
7 If the death has taken place before 13/11/74 all the normal estate duty rules apply .
8 ‘ Are these all the candles we 've got ? ’ she asked her father .
9 Cut your chosen plastic backdrop picture to size — 6mm smaller all the way round ( ie 12mm narrow ; 12mm shorter overall ) .
10 Each celluloid window was two inches smaller all the way round than the gap it was supposed to fill and was held in place by fishing line .
11 By the 1660s all the islands were committed to sugar and the white planters were taking drastic steps to prevent their white employees from leaving the islands and tilting the population balance still further towards the black slaves , but this of course made white employees all the more determined to avoid going to the West Indies .
12 By the late 1750s all the major potteries : Chelsea , Bristol , Bow , Lowestoft , Derby , Longton Hall and Liverpool — were manufacturing and selling hundreds of porcelain and earthenware sauce-boats .
13 so I got together with a couple of blokes from school ‘ Hold Your Head Up ’ by Argent was in the charts at the time We 'd play that again and again and again It was the only bass line I could play properly — because it 's so simple , it 's exactly the same all the way through .
14 Rolling over , he buried his face in the pillow and tried to get back his old picture of her — hard and tough and violent , the same all the way through .
15 Thus the distance from the bank to the nearest point of the island was about the same all the way around It resembled a moat , about thirty yards wide .
16 And shall there insert every persons name that shall be wedded christened or buryded And for the sauff ( safe ) kepinge the same boke the parish shale bonde to provide of these comen charges one sure coffer with twoo lockes and keys where of the one to remayne with you and the other with the said wardens , wherein the said boke shalbe laide upp Which boke ye shall every Sonday take furthe and in the presence of the said wardens or one of them write and record in the same all the weddinges , christenyngs and buryenges made the hole weke before , And that done to lay upp the boke in the said coffer as afore .
17 and made the road up a bit wider all the way , room for passing
18 By the end of the 1980s all the major governments in the West were carrying out reviews and costing of environmental policies .
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