Example sentences of "[verb] more to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The work of the civil service is , of course , dedicated more to the training of senior management and training in the key professional skills such as information technology , audit , purchasing and supply . |
| 2 | Which Contributed More to the Outbreak of the Spanish Civil War , The Reforms or the Weaknesses of Republican Governments ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He says the two main benefits for shareholders are that the perks are a ‘ bit of fun ’ that it ‘ enables them to relate more to the company . ’ |
| 8 | Hence , the high-performing division has more power and autonomy than the less-performing division because ( at this stage ) it is contributing more to the firm 's goals . |
| 9 | Others believed the panel to be constituted on a representative basis , so that the coordinating committee was entitled to no more than one seat on the panel that it had created , while others appear to have seen the panel as relating more to the county inservice activities than to the project itself . |
| 10 | While the numbers of airborne micro-organisms were related more to the number of people in the room , low levels of Aspergillus Fumigatus ( proving a health risk only to immunocompromised individuals ) gave cause for concern . |
| 11 | Since the earlier study , the team 's experience with the SSM had increased considerably , and any difficulties encountered at this stage were related more to the use of the FAOR package as an integrated whole than to the individual components themselves . |
| 12 | I listen more to the tone of the voice . |
| 13 | Nothing would , in our belief , conduce more to the unity and harmony of the nation than a public policy directed to the provision of equal intellectual opportunities for all , and service to this end would be doubly effective if it came voluntarily as from those who have already received their inheritance , and desire to share with the rest of their countrymen that in which their life and freedom most truly consist . |
| 14 | The resultant pseudo-scientific arguments will then concern themselves with the meaningless question as to whether the fauna of the intervening strata pertain more to the stage below or to the stage above . |
| 15 | During 1940–4 , Frenchmen living in metropolitan France both turned more to the radio and relied less on the press . |
| 16 | No element contributes more to the character of Vietnam — particularly in the deltas — than the fact that everything seems to happen on or in water . |
| 17 | The development of the procedure from its origins in valuation to modern " expert " applications has led me to attempt to distinguish between these two types and to classify applications either as belonging to the traditional , valuation type , or as owing more to the concept of a technical expert , which I have labelled " industrial " . |
| 18 | I find them more human and more poignant , you know ; going more to the core of how things , how feelings are . |
| 19 | We therefore might expect cultural changes to have greatly outstripped our slowly changing evolutionary heritage , in which case our present behaviour should be attributed more to the process of cultural , than of genetical , evolution . |
| 20 | Cook food in the base of the wok , and then pull the food up the sides to keep warm whilst adding more to the base of the pan . |
| 21 | It made me wonder whether great figurative works owe more to the model or the artist . |
| 22 | It made me wonder whether great figurative works owe more to the model or the artist . |
| 23 | Hungary had in late January limited the renewal of export licences for sales to the Soviet Union ( with which it had a marked trade surplus ) and pursued its aim of exporting more to the West for hard currency . |
| 24 | Tiberius Minnows meanwhile appear to be moving more to the rock end of their pop/rock equation — although not always entirely convincingly . |
| 25 | The decision to wind up coincided with Millar 's retirement , but owed more to the competition from the TUC 's own education department and the Workers ' Educational Association . |
| 26 | The decision to wind it up coincided with Millar 's retirement , but owed more to the competition from the TUC 's own education department and the Workers Educational Association . |
| 27 | THE rise of John Daly was straight out of Boy 's Own ; the fall owed more to the Valley of the Dolls . |
| 28 | It owed more to the boycott of the elections by the socialist parties and to the Kadets ' skilful use of the indirect electoral system which enabled them to win a disproportionate number of seats . |
| 29 | The big financial sections in the dailies owed more to the growth of appropriate advertising in the 1960s than to a surge of reader interest . |
| 30 | That , however , owed more to the convenience of his nearby residence than to any personal pre-eminence . |