Example sentences of "[vb -s] more to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I can not see that any of this speculation helps us to understand the poem ; but if we must guess , it seems more to the point to look for an eight-year-old girl . |
| 7 | The essence of the unconscious conflict in paranoia relates more to the parent of the same sex than it does to that of the opposite one . |