Example sentences of "[pron] be more to " in BNC.

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1 In The Psychoanalysis of Culture I drew attention to the megalomania of early divine kingships without , at the time , seeing its relation to the depressive aspects of the early agriculture on which these institutions were based.ll Nevertheless , it is now clear , as I hope to show , that the two opposite types of symptom do in fact appear in connection with the coming of agriculture and , which is more to the point for our present concerns , that this is a phenomenon not without relevance to the understanding of the modern world .
2 Daniel ( ’ Robinson Crusoe ’ ) Defoe , after reaching Saltash , which he found to be in a state of decay , and travelling to Liskeard , which was more to his taste , wrote , ‘ In the neighbourhood of these towns are many pleasant seats of the Cornish gentry … they are the most sociable , generous and to one another the kindest neighbours that are to be found ’ .
3 I mean , I 'm not saying I want us to be living at the top of a tower block on some vandalized estate but there 's more to life than this , I know there is . ’
4 ‘ But as much as I 'd like to continue playing for the North , I suddenly thought there 's more to life than sitting on the M1 .
5 ‘ The idea then was to go completely beserk for an hour , but there 's more to life than that .
6 Paul Ryan discovers that there 's more to the photographs of Robert Doisneau than mere fascination with kissing and nostalgia
7 There 's more to garden colour than flowers alone , says Robert Pearson
8 There 's more to it than that !
9 I 've got my family and there 's more to life than money . ’
10 But there 's more to these 26th November recordings than famous and soon-to-be-famous names : take such as Kogo , Now 's the Time , Warming up a Riff and Billie 's Bounce represent Parker at what one might consider his recently matured best .
11 McCoy Tyner and Herbie Hancock are cited as ‘ influences ’ ; there 's more to it than that and I suggest you give this one a try soon .
12 Of course , there 's more to Reims , the Champagne capital , than great food and world-class hotels , the City is founded on bubbles — Champagne bubbles !
13 It just shows that there 's more to demo-making than a bunch of programmers having fun .
14 ‘ We 'll be doing more long songs , but this time they 'll be long because there 's more to them , not because they 're jammed out …
15 Klondyke Trading Co are responsible for providing a variety of straps for both the home market and the world , but as I found out on a recent visit there 's more to making one guitar strap than meets the eye , let alone producing thousands .
16 But there 's more to a musical instrument than its basic tonal ‘ fingerprint ’ .
17 Neatly arranged opposite is an array of samplers , sequencers , drum machines and keyboards — just to prove there 's more to the man than the jingle-jangle of six strings over a pickup .
18 Bizarrely , it 's a pork butcher 's shop , and there 's more to this business than a bacon slicer and a few trays of pies .
19 ‘ But there 's more to it , is n't there … there 's a kind of secret . ’
20 That there 's more to Normski than his manic public persona is obvious here , with the music playing , and the beaming photos of himself and Janet Street-Porter that are propped up through the house .
21 He 'll learn there 's more to being a man than hunting and lolling about the place .
22 There 's more to a name than meets the eye as you will discover when you send for our brochure .
23 But there 's more to Girobank 's service than competitive rates alone .
24 There 's more to Holland than windmills , tulips and canals , but they 're a start .
25 And as our Mick has often said , there 's more to Master Joe than meets the eye . ’
26 Five decades of work by the Italian genius prove that there 's more to fantastic footwear than Red Or Dead ( see left ) .
27 ‘ I want to prove there 's more to me than blonde hair and long legs . ’
28 The new line is Now There 's More To Mars .
29 But Deane , who has scored four times this season , says : ‘ There 's more to me than being just that .
30 There was another track after ‘ Happy Hour ’ that we could have put out that probably would have done just as well , but instead we went for a ballad , ‘ Think For A Minute ’ , to make people think , ‘ Jesus , there 's more to this group than I 'd thought ’ .
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