Example sentences of "more [to-vb] with [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , the dilemmas associated with abuse have more to do with anxiety over taking a moral position than with the complexity of the subject . |
| 2 | Instead , their contribution has more to do with co-ordination , management of collaboration and complexity , ensuring widespread input and engagement , and , finally , validating or ratifying the commitment of the firm to a course of action . |
| 3 | It ca n't surely , but it 's what the Government want to do with L M S. Of course , they have a real agenda behind Local Management which is more to do with market- led economy education , competition , evasiveness , elitiveness , the end of the Local Authority . |
| 4 | Well , people are stupid , but it all seems to have more to do with mood , caprice and atmosphere than carefully thought-out arguments . |
| 5 | Reliability is much to , much more to do with replicability , it 's , it 's another if another researcher went in and did it the same way , would they get the same results ? |
| 6 | This can be used to reinforce the differences between preference and ordinary shares although in this case the explanation does not lie in that direction as there are no preference shares ; rather the explanation is more to do with stability of dividends in an attempt to bolster shareholders ' confidence . |
| 7 | The whole effect is original and has more to do with whim and fantasy , rather than the philosophy and scholarship of the later periods of the Gothic Revival . |
| 8 | The second has more to do with society and can not be changed readily . |
| 9 | These questions should have been foreseen , certainly , but the real personnel issues have more to do with selection , induction and training in general , and the question is whether George 's relatively informal system is really suited to the new circumstances . |
| 10 | Does he also agree that the reservations in his party about a single currency have more to do with nationalism than with economics ? |
| 11 | Worthwhile marketing is n't a ‘ hit and run ’ activity but needs sustained effort , it 's not necessarily expensive as it 's more to do with attitude and ingenuity rather than resources . |
| 12 | In many ways the motive for holding stock in related companies has less to do with short-term dividend prospects and much more to do with group cohesion and stability that is vital for securing material supplies or finding markets . |
| 13 | It is also playfully lexical , in a manner that engagingly unites the bookish child and the ageing professor of Anglo-Saxon , and its word-games are totally unlike those of Joyce — more to do with etymology than punning , more Germanic than Latin , and ultimately populist and patriotic in their insistence on how English arose out of its pre-Conquest roots . |
| 14 | But none of this has any more to do with language than a new-born baby 's screeching or a plant 's wilting from lack of water , except in the unlikely event ( possible only in the human case ) of an attempt to deceive . |
| 15 | To talk instead of making children accept the discipline of learning would seem to have more to do with coercion than with making lessons relevant and interesting . |
| 16 | In part it came about as a reaction to the inordinate complexity of S-R theory but , I believe , it had much more to do with S-R theory 's failure to cope with real psychological problems like the performance of radar operators , and with the availability of machines , computers , with mind-like properties that made it respectable to think in mentalistic terms again . |
| 17 | So she 's more to do with bobbysox blues than sex'n'drugs'n'booze , but there 's no hiding from the fact that Magnapop as a whole are capable of creating some genuinely horrible noises . |
| 18 | Although this implies fixing something that 's broken , it is more to do with hand finishing a woven carpet . |
| 19 | But that 's more to do with health than weight . |
| 20 | It has much more to do with control of the party 's thinking and its power structures ; the debate about modernisation of ideology and whether or not the Scottish party should become more or less independent of the rest of the UK Labour Party . |
| 21 | The world of motor racing loves to surround itself in secrecy … what goes in to the automatic gearboxes … suspensions and highly tuned engines is more to do with science than sport … |
| 22 | It has more to do with geography . |
| 23 | The Hinayana ( the little vehicle ) is more to do with discipline and method while the Mahayana ( the great vehicle ) is to do with the mystical . |
| 24 | It ca n't surely , but it 's what the Government want to do with L M S. Of course , they have a real agenda behind Local Management which is more to do with market led economy education , competition , , elitiveness , the end of the Local Authority . |
| 25 | In that sense , Huxley suggested , evolution had no more to do with theism than had the first book of Euclid . |
| 26 | Fourthly , Realism accepts that political acts have moral significance , but only in a sense which relates to the interests of the political agent and which has more to do with prudence than with traditional ethics . |
| 27 | nothing to do with intentions has more to do with sort of intuition . |
| 28 | This jealousy may be felt to be like Othello 's in having more to do with difference of race , and with the jealousies of race , than the jealous man , or than the work he belongs to , seems disposed to state . |
| 29 | The acceptance of these conditions as being worthy of medical time an the tendency to resent scarce resources being used on drug addiction and alcoholism have more to do with fear or disgust than whether or not a condition is demonstrably self-induced . |
| 30 | ‘ The Bloody Sunday grant has more to do with vote catching in the Bogside and Creggan in May , ’ claimed Mr Adams . |