Example sentences of "more down to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But going for gold these days is more down to money than motivation . |
| 2 | The journey through Louisiana was more down to earth . |
| 3 | Wilde took poetic licence to the extreme , for the true story is much more down to earth . |
| 4 | The reality could not be more down to earth and straightforward , though there is much more to this player than meets the eye . |
| 5 | The third source is more down to earth . |
| 6 | Incomers tend to see this in class terms as well — pilots are generally upper crust , while engineers are more down to earth ( socially as well as literally' ) Since many incomer workers are ex-military the distinction is often phrased in military terms : officers and ‘ other ranks ’ . |
| 7 | When the smoke clears Pain Teens turn out to be more down to earth , a punky bar band who occasionally stray into territory that can best be described as extra terrestrial . |
| 8 | The Kitchenware Records spokesperson , brought up on Newcastle Brown , was more down to earth . |
| 9 | ‘ more down to earth , more devoted to our purposes than those of the author , less concerned with artistic values than with a faithful rendering of the subject 's experience and interpretation of the world he lives in . |
| 10 | For the more down to earth woodworker it is interesting that often the cordless drill is picked up in preference to the mains powered one for many tasks . |
| 11 | our royalty is erm we sort of put on a pedestal and if you look at other European countries who still have royal families , they 're a bit more down to earth , some of them Europe go on bicycles and they do n't need , erm , all the limousines . |
| 12 | Unfortunately your head has a more down to earth message that stops you mid-melody . |
| 13 | More down to earth are essays on predicting the economy by Frank Hahn and the frontiers of medicine by Ian Kennedy . |
| 14 | Here is a more down to earth example than the ones suggested above : the drama is set in contemporary Britain , in a small rural area by the coast . |
| 15 | But after a lifetime working for God , a vicar 's cv does n't offer much to more down to earth employers . |
| 16 | Certainly there is much of interest here as the exhibition runs the whole gamut with further wide-ranging , bird 's eye views through more down to earth transcriptions to a couple of urban scenes . |