Example sentences of "[was/were] all [art] " in BNC.

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1 Having done so much good among them , the people were all the more prepared to listen to his teaching .
2 She was two years older than him , and a thousand miles away at a girls ' school in Gloucestershire , and on the rare occasions when they met he hardly dared even speak to her ; but Richard was always in love with someone and his passions were all the more intense for being largely fantasy .
3 If these were things that could not be fully understood or controlled , then they were all the more menacing because they could not be avoided .
4 National rivalries were all the more intense and confused in these districts precisely because it was often not possible to tell who was which nationality , or where a person 's loyalties lay .
5 Their support and messages of comfort were all the more touching and meant a great deal to the Orkney families .
6 French authorities were all the more interested by the historic and stylistic importance of ‘ Jardin a Auvers ’ , as national museums only possessed twenty-five other works by the artist .
7 The intent of the politician was of course to create a feeling of obligation , which he undoubtedly hoped would stand him in good stead at the next election , but such feelings were all the stronger because the shrewd political manager never breathed a word about a bargain or the anticipated political return .
8 After their loss of Normandy in 1204 the king-dukes were all the more concerned to hold on to their southern lands .
9 The " confident " party were all the more delighted because even they had come to entertain one or two small doubts .
10 The recipient had an obligation to use these talents to help others ; and since I was a heretic , my duties in this respect were all the more pressing .
11 It is interesting to note that among those subject areas with lower than average levels of students seeking employment were all the " purer " IT specialisms .
12 They were all the more tedious because they were reduced , for all practical purposes , to one question : why , after everything that has been put forward in this court , have you still made no attempt to visit 42b Milvain Street ?
13 Sepulveda justified the enslavement of the Indians on the grounds that they were the natural slaves mentioned in Book I of Aristotle 's Politics ; the Dominican Friar Las Casas admitted the frailty of the Indians but argued that they were all the more children of God owing to their very lack of capacity and skill , which still implies a sort of sub-humanity but of a different kind .
14 His quiet reproaches , as I had felt on more than one occasion , were all the more devastating .
15 And if the scientists felt that they could speak with certainty , how much more so the lesser publicists and ideologists who were all the more certain of the experts ' certainties , because they could understand most of what the experts said , at least in so far as it could still be said without the use of higher mathematics .
16 Yet there can be no room for complacency after shock home defeats by Watford and Barnsley defeats that were all the more disappointing because they came after a long unbeaten home run .
17 ( It was Lawrence who ‘ blew my cover , ’ he said , on finding that Leonard was failing to attend Law School lectures , which was all the more concerning as he had no scholarship to go there , only his family 's financial backing . )
18 The result was all the more remarkable as the champion has looked vulnerable in his last two contests .
19 The disaster was all the more stunning because people had come to assume that such things did n't happen .
20 She had received no advance warning , and was all the more disturbed when Mr Cheney justified his move by declaring that the threat from the Warsaw Pact was diminishing .
21 After such a blow to belief in the government 's honesty and in its all-seeing ability to fix things , the leap to anti-communist opposition was all the easier to make .
22 Brought up in the ethic of duty , this was hard for Jane to get used to , but when she broke out into the sunshine , it was all the more joyous , and she thanked God , or Nature , or Fate , or whatever power there is , that it had happened for her in her lifetime .
23 This was all the more prominent in operations rather than in childbirth .
24 Her near nervous breakdown , which took her to the brink of giving up all she had worked for in showbusiness , was all the more surprising to outsiders given it happened in her native Australia .
25 The scoreline was all the more remarkable considering Villa recently went 578 competitive minutes without scoring a goal .
26 The pill was all the more bitter for Woosnam because he had begun so well .
27 Their claim was all the more pointed for it was made in the City of London , in the heart of the constituency of Peter Brooke — replaced last night as Northern Ireland Secretary — who has led , with consummate patience , the process of bringing all the Ulster politicians to the same conference table for the first time in 16 years .
28 In Lewis the effect of the decline in the inshore fishing industry was all the more dramatic because it looked for a time as if it might be averted .
29 This was all the more remarkable in view of the fact that : —
30 It was all the more striking because O had such a body ; he was magnificent .
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