Example sentences of "[vb base] all [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could be assuaged to lower sales resistance — ‘ To make that job easier , you deserve M and M candy ’ ( after which , naturally , you need Gleem all the more ) . |
| 2 | Paul Scott 's Raj Quartet , a fictional foursome collected in 1976 and with the pendant of a fifth novel , Staying On ( 1977 ) , is a vast canvas devoted to the transfer of power in India and its sequel : too close in time to be seen , altogether clearly , as historical fiction , too distant in place to be a shared world ; though like E. M. Forster before him , Scott chose an alien sun to define the outlines and shadows of the English abroad , where their habits of mind look all the sharper , odder and more endearing against the background of an exotic land . |
| 3 | You may just be bored with your current relationship , and your boredom is making the idea of an affair with a woman seem all the more exciting . |
| 4 | It has rubble-stone walls and its steeply pitched roofs make the granite-capped chimneys seem all the higher . |
| 5 | At the same time , the very seriousness of the crisis and the desperate resort to terrorism that its collapse prompted among the pieds noirs made some kind of speedy settlement seem all the more imperative . |
| 6 | The political realities of the division of Korea made the Korean people appreciate all the more the value of the assistance provided by the Soviet Union : |
| 7 | Furthermore , at a time of indeterminacy and change like the present , where there is frequently no strong institutional ideology to subscribe to , individual values matter all the more . |
| 8 | ‘ We are playing better and looking forward to Rangers ’ visit all the more because of UEFA 's decision to allow our fans to see the match . |
| 9 | This is as true of child protection work as of any other field , and indeed perhaps the very dangerousness of the work ( for professionals and clients alike ) and the appalling nature of some of the cruelties and neglects make such professional jealousy and prejudice all the more likely . |
| 10 | ‘ I feel all the better for that . |
| 11 | I feel all the better for it ! " " |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Such measures become all the more important when the overdose is a repeat . |
| 14 | When adolescence is enforced or prolonged , as it tends to be in closed institutions , these needs become all the greater . |
| 15 | This realism has obviously become all the more desirable since the genesis of Fords . |
| 16 | He 'd applauded politely at the end of every number , but seemed totally unmoved , and somehow that had made her try all the harder , as though it were imperative that she reach him . |
| 17 | ‘ I do all the drawings , unlike other studios where you have someone to do the cars , someone to do the buildings . |
| 18 | You can just go up for a ride , letting someone else do all the work while you enjoy the sensation , or learn to pilot the thing for yourself . |
| 19 | In extreme cases , say of a family from the remote rural areas of Azad Kashmir , if the mother has just had a baby , it is known for daughters of twelve to stay at home from school for weeks , do all the cooking , look after the younger children and generally run the home . |
| 20 | She was n't mean about it , she was very grateful to have someone to talk to and I used to try to spend a lot of time with her just to cheer her up — you know , walk the dog with her and go shopping — just do all the things that would help . |
| 21 | ‘ Why do all the other flats take it so placidly for Heaven 's sake ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ No — what I mean is — if he 's sitting at home while you do all the work , why is n't he happy ? |
| 23 | They have to run the beastly place and do all the work . ’ |
| 24 | Like their fairy-tale sister , they do all the boring but crucial jobs — looking after the keyboard and screen , filing and retrieving data — but get few thanks for it . |
| 25 | Why do all the hooligans seem to be on the row in front and the row behind me ? |
| 26 | ‘ We do all the chemical work in another part of the Unit , ’ Barbara said . |
| 27 | Do all the Governors automatically receive copies of newsletters ? |
| 28 | They are novels in which the main characters debate topical social and economic issues as well as fall in and out of love , marry and have children , pursue careers , make or lose their fortunes , and do all the other things that characters do in more conventional novels . |
| 29 | ‘ You just admitted blacks do all the worst jobs , the dirtiest , hardest jobs . ’ |
| 30 | He also made a creeper-covered trellis in front of the house door and did all the garden , ‘ do all the flowers . ’ |