Example sentences of "[vb -s] more to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This corresponds more to economic arithmetic than to economic analysis , and more sophisticated approaches look to evaluation by reference to the tools developed in chapter 6 on cost-benefit analysis . |
| 2 | NO BRITISH sport owes more to television than athletics . |
| 3 | The same might be said of Neville Brody whose typography for The Face owes more to computer-operated typesetting than to calligraphy . |
| 4 | Rich and soothing , this decidedly grown-up version of an old nursery favourite owes more to Anton Mosimann than to Mrs Beeton . |
| 5 | This growth owes more to the birth-rate than to evangelism : Muslims are younger than the rest of the population ( half the South Asians are under 16 ) and usually have large families . |
| 6 | The most striking Iraqi achievement so far has been the saving of its air force , a feat that owes more to engineering than combat . |
| 7 | If Verdi 's Don Carlos ( at the Coliseum ) is the greater work , it owes more to Rossini 's example than to anything by Meyerbeer . |
| 8 | The idea that Christianity can only do justice to its beliefs by means of apparent contradictions ( the notion of ‘ paradox ’ ) owes more to Pascal than to any other religious thinker . |
| 9 | I am saying we must not supplant Anglican worship for a free-wheeling non-conformist style which owes more to Spring Harvest than the A.S.B . |
| 10 | It 's a cute wheeze that arguably owes more to Flann O'Brien ( the rebellion of the fictional characters in At Swim-Two-Birds ) than to James Joyce 's other literary heir . |
| 11 | True to their word , the troupe perform a joyously irreverent show called Oops Uranus , which owes more to Monty Python and Carry On than Murphy or Pryor . |
| 12 | This wealth is independent of production relations and owes more to household structure and position in the life-cycle . |
| 13 | Late twentieth-century work design owes more to scientific management than to Herzberg or Emery . |
| 14 | We might go on to say that not only in the medieval period with its plainsong , but also today , the Church owes more to the prayer and music of the religious orders than it will ever appreciate . |
| 15 | While cultural attitudes within the service , under the impact of the FMI , may be changing , Metcalfe and Richards ' view ( 1984 , p. 452 ) is that the initial impact of the FMI probably owes more to ‘ political clout … the repeated confirmation of Prime Ministerial backing ’ than to genuine cultural change . |
| 16 | To talk of policy in matters of care except in the context of available resources and timescales for action owes more to theology than to the purposeful delivery of a caring service . |
| 17 | Of the relatively few exceptions to the pattern two which call for mention are Chicheley Hall , Buckinghamshire ( 1719–21 ) , and Sutton Scarsdale , Derbyshire ( begun 1724 ) : the exotic façade of the former probably owes more to the taste of the patron , Sir John Chester , than to Smith 's own devising ; but Sutton Scarsdale , in part evidently inspired by Gibbs 's unexecuted design of 1721 for the university buildings at Cambridge , is his finest work , a wholly convincing essay in the heroic grand manner , in which the giant Corinthian order is handled with total assurance . |
| 18 | The assumption that all past societies were well adapted to their environments — noble savages in the garden of Eden — owes more to late 20th century wishful thinking than to reality . |
| 19 | But Scorsese 's film owes more to Luis Bunuel 's quizzical The Milky Way than to the lavish Hollywood epics of the past . |
| 20 | I suspect that the European defence force owes more to the French belief that , by merging German and French forces together , it effectively removes the threat of German militarism , while resurrecting the long-held French ambition to remove the immediate American influence from European defence , which is the case with NATO . |
| 21 | The second view owes more to the rationalist philosophical tradition usually associated with continental philosophers such as Descartes , Kant , Leibnitz and , much more recently , structuralist philosophers . |
| 22 | Mr Smith assures us that this ‘ strength ’ is because the Labour Party owes more to Methodism than to Marxism . |
| 23 | Yet it was a triumph of Victorian engineering and now adds more to the English landscape than most railway lines do . |
| 24 | ‘ All I wanted to say was — her life is devoted to serving and servicing others — and the book shows that by playing that role that that role adds more to human happiness and richness than anything else . |
| 25 | The modern stockman thus approximates more to a ‘ farm technician ’ than the old image of the ‘ farm labourer ’ . |
| 26 | And yes , I know I 'm beautiful , if you say so , but what matters more to me is that I 'm a damn good nurse and I have something to give to these people . ’ |
| 27 | You would quite literally have to be a practising Satanist gone stupid from self-abuse to not know that ‘ Deeply Dippy ’ says more to you about your life than , ooh , lots of other camp ironic pop singers we could mention . |
| 28 | You can talk about the nature of art — blah , blah , blah — and I did do some dribbling off into text and stuff , but now I know that movement says more to me than any of this other tosh . |
| 29 | Sugar contributes more to calorie intake than in the past , mainly due to the increased consumption of processed beverages and foods , which may bode ill for the population 's teeth , but also reveals increased purchasing power . |
| 30 | We recognize , too , that a healthy lifestyle contributes more to looking good than skilfully used cosmetics . |