Example sentences of "is more [art] " in BNC.
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1 | The spaces in a city are more valued , and their enhancing is more a matter of public concern . |
2 | But it is more a consequence of the view we have of Switzerland and of Swiss skiing . |
3 | Just in case you fail to deduce , for example , that war is more a matter of narcissistic games-playing than of honour for the play 's young soldiers , they helpfully tote around personal full-length mirrors in the court scenes . |
4 | In The Black Queen of 1961 , Mariana has more substance than in the early collages of rags , and so , being more tangible , is more a victim , of Gironella , of time , of historical circumstances ( Fig. 6 ) . |
5 | It is more a matter of approaching the book 's arguments from within a milieu of relatively academic contemporary art theory and being unable to see the wood for the trees . |
6 | But when it comes down to it , the V8 is more a car for drivers than passengers . |
7 | The MX-3 , at 166ins long , is more a Volkswagen Corrado rival than the anticipated threat to the Honda CRX . |
8 | But BodyShop 's appearance is more a reflection of accounting curiosities which gave it such a huge return on capital last year : likewise fire extinguisher company Nu-Swift , whose remarkable figures last year put it at the top of the ROC table . |
9 | But this is more a measure of the limitations of our own mind . |
10 | The ten-year programme represents not so much a strategy for growth ; it is more a guess at the government 's ability to rein in the booming provinces of the southern coast and the Yangtze delta . |
11 | But the law does contain such offences , and it is more a matter of prosecutors making little use of them . |
12 | This distinctive corporate culture flourishes in an environment in which independence is more a matter of convention than anything else . |
13 | I said , ‘ This is more a movie set than real life . ’ |
14 | A party of schoolchildren are shushed by their teacher before they enter what is more a sanctum than a room in a museum . |
15 | It may be the case — I hope it is — that Borg has always been a much happier man than he has seemed , and that his resumption of his old trade is more a matter of idle curiosity about himself than it is a neurotic search for lost identity . |
16 | But I think it is more a question of psychology . |
17 | It is more a standard , a form of self-reliance , a determination that if one has to go in the end , better be correctly dressed . |
18 | The problem is not simply one of quantity ; that is more a symptom than a cause . |
19 | Unlike France , however , the parliament is not constitutionally supine ; indeed it has a degree of control over policy which some might envy , although this is more a result of governmental weakness than anything else . |
20 | The concept of co-operative federalism is more a convenient myth for the gravy train of the Länder bureaucracies than anything to do with popular sentiment . |
21 | The much vaunted independence of the Länder is more a mirage than reality . |
22 | It insists upon lumping the whole of reality together as a single ‘ thing ’ or ‘ system ’ like a body , rather than recognising that it is more a collection of different things , a network of interrelated but separate systems , animate and inanimate , that can not be welded together into one ‘ thing ’ . |
23 | And the fact that today this respect has to be defended even more stridently than before is more a comment on the destructiveness of modern development than the result of any new-fangled obsession with antiquity . |
24 | Maturity , at least for me , seems to lie in the discovery that happiness and circumstances do n't have all that much to do with each other ; that happiness is more a matter of choice and habit than we suppose , and less dependent upon the accident of circumstances . |
25 | The term is more a measure of the sort of living a holding will provide and the labour involved than a mere acreage . |
26 | Goodchild ( 1978 ) suggests that the number of derived polygons is more a function of boundary complexity than the actual number of polygons . |
27 | In the case of the NHS , it is not a matter of disbelief : it is more a matter of different interpretations of the faith . |
28 | It is more a movement involving tens of thousands of associated subgroups , all of which are independent , though sympathetic to each other . |
29 | Several urban planners have also shown that even low-rise homes can give reasonably high urban densities ; it is more a matter of equitable distribution of urban land . |
30 | This is partly because piracy in Britain is more a game for enthusiasts than a serious business . |