Example sentences of "have more [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The appalling summer weather meant Duncan had more to cope with than he bargained for — cold water , a swollen river and a lot of fallen branches , leaves and other debris . |
| 2 | And if you like ignored those because we had more to lose . |
| 3 | Depending on Austrian cooperation was unwise , however , for Austria had more to lose from the Ottoman Empire 's collapse than any of the Great Powers . |
| 4 | That had more to do with management and the presentation of the play to those who were backing it — so instead of playing Beefy , who is described as ‘ the world 's most beatific observer ’ I played the opposite number who was ‘ the world 's last shy elegant young man ’ . |
| 5 | The reason why they turned to anthropology and history had more to do with their analysis of capitalism than with a concern with pre-capitalist societies for themselves . |
| 6 | The new generation of producers that subsequently emerged came to believe it was possible for the British film industry to ‘ take on ’ the Americans , although this grand ambition had more to do with a desire to efface their inferiority complex than any serious resolve to face reality . |
| 7 | The '90s have not started well for Wales 's native cattle breed , but the halving of the Royal Welsh Black entries to 41 had more to do with the recession and choice of judge than the breed 's current popularity . |
| 8 | The situation was touched with sadness ( the trip was ostensibly a day out for the girl , thus implying the limitations of her life 's experience ) and the photographs of the girl snatched by an opportunist art student for later exhibition had more to do with the exploitation of human life by art than with mental handicap . |
| 9 | Sadly , the case had more to do with the freedom of the press than with the rights of the mentally handicapped to live , and when the Mail was cleared of contempt by the Law Lords it was a victory for the freedom of the press not the mentally handicapped present in our society . |
| 10 | ‘ Do n't you think that had more to do with the World Council of nations assuming power and nationalising religion … ? ’ |
| 11 | The applications of Papert 's ideas to the Third World had more to do with Servan-Schreiber 's priorities , than with the immediate concerns of the computer scientists the politician had gathered . |
| 12 | The report of that research — Accident risk and behavioural patterns of younger drivers , published last year — showed that more than a third of the men aged 17 to 25 were assessed as ‘ unsafe ’ drivers , and suggested that this had more to do with lifestyle than with driving skills . |
| 13 | However , while dispute in the Reich centred on the political control of Ernst Röhm 's brownshirt empire within an empire , in Danzig the affair had more to do with petty jealousies and spite , through which the hazy outline of some dispute about the future and direction of the Party was just discernible . |
| 14 | For the first set of songs , I had more to do with that side mainly because I 'm the guitarist , and I sit down with the guitar for 3 or 4 hours every day , so there 's always a riff there . |
| 15 | But But this victory — which lifts Ferguson 's team into fifth place , nine points behind leaders Norwich , who visit Old Trafford next Saturday — had more to do with the midfield prowess of Paul Ince . |
| 16 | A Section was camped in a knoll at the end of a spur near Nasuta and they built an observation point which was approached by a crawl through thickets before climbing a tree to a branch chair — the comfort of its armrests had more to do with the watcher keeping absolutely still than with his ease . |
| 17 | The UDC s contribution to the politics of progress had more to do with the transmission of old values than with any radical new thinking . |
| 18 | The FT-SE Index crashed nearly 14 points to 2691.7 but the fall had more to do with the Maastricht jitters than America 's new President . |
| 19 | The family is well aware of the poor level of prize-money in Britain , but their decision not to bid had more to do with a clash of personality with Tattersalls than any pull-out threat . |
| 20 | Their refusal to do so had more to do with a laager mentality than with calculations that by spinning out the conflict they could buy time to mop up more territory . |
| 21 | Their rundown had more to do with their social function becoming anachronistic . |
| 22 | However , Ybarra claims SunPics ' reluctance had more to do with the fact that henceforth it will have to pay for Adobe imaging technologies like PostScript and display Postscript . |
| 23 | The pope 's nephew , Cardinal Barberini , appears to have shared with Firenzuola the suspicion that the trial had more to do with personal revenge than doctrinal necessity . |
| 24 | In June 1964 a law transformed RTF into O ( for ‘ Office ’ ( RTF's ' This law had more to do with the organizational needs of a body attempting to adjust to the expansion of broadcasting than with the issue of political control . |
| 25 | However , it was the evaluators ' impression that the dispute coincided with a certain demoralisation amongst panel members which had more to do with the disorganisation and instability of the panel itself . |
| 26 | This had more to do with share price performance than with currency changes . |
| 27 | It had more to do with their nationalities than their ages . |
| 28 | It had more to do with the easy communion between Katherine and Thomas Sachs , the way his eyes sometimes fell on her when she was n't looking . |
| 29 | Sensing this , Taheb sought to reassure him , but his own pride stood between them , and they both knew that their affair had more to do with simple pleasure than deep feelings . |
| 30 | Cosmas 's death had more to do with flesh and blood than curses , witches or ghosts . ’ |