Example sentences of "may [be] more a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many claims are made for their disinfectant properties but the results obtained may be more a function of their excellent detergency in removing , rather than destroying , micro-organisms and their recommended method of use in sequence with other cleaning agents followed by a number of rinses . |
| 2 | This distinction is familiar enough to the jurist for whom the fairness and therefore the acceptability of a trial may be more a matter of the way in which the trial was conducted than whether or not the verdict reached was in some further sense the right one . |
| 3 | Teachers are not free to define the curriculum but this may be more a loss of face than substance . |
| 4 | In short : identity may be more a province of information that the other way round . |
| 5 | The lower status of general courses may be more a function of the students who take them than of their content and the association with ordinary rather than honours degrees . |
| 6 | The remaining three are significant , but this may be more a consequence of mixing the order of factors across the groups than of anything important . |