Example sentences of "be more to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there may have been more to the Chancellor 's remarks than meet the eye . |
| 2 | Stupid Aries might have been more to the point , because the only person who seemed to have been burnt by her fire was herself . |
| 3 | ‘ It would have been more to the point if you 'd attacked Ryan , ’ he said brutally , ‘ because , despite your lousy opinion of me , I 've done nothing to deliberately hurt you . |
| 4 | At present the opportunities they provide for cost cutting are more to the fore . |
| 5 | Like many people , maybe you 're feeling that there should be more to a summer holiday than sun , sea and of course , crowds . |
| 6 | However , there seems to be more to the formation of a child 's personality at birth than these two viewpoints — that we are either born as a blank sheet or that the formation we have is via our mother , and begins prior to our birth . |
| 7 | The virtue of artists ' writings for the reader of criticism is that it can often serve as a touchstone for judging the worth of mediators , particularly those presenting views of what the artist intended ; what the artist said may be more to the point . |
| 8 | Indeed it would be more to the point had her will of 1784 been retitled ‘ Funeral Instructions ’ as most of its wording relates specifically to the funeral . |
| 9 | Or even an indecent one , which would probably — certainly — be more to the point . ’ |
| 10 | Kuhn insists that there is more to a paradigm that can be explicitly laid down in the form of explicit rules and directions . |
| 11 | But as aspiring authors know , there is more to a blockbuster than a fulsome blurb . |
| 12 | But as the replies from Collingwood and Parris make clear , there is more to a tutor-organiser 's success than this : for success has to be measured by different criteria according to the context of the work . |
| 13 | There is more to a meal than what 's put on the plates . |
| 14 | Yet there is more to the dilemmas of media tradition and ideology than the question of control . |
| 15 | In countries not threatened by invasion , foreign policy is rarely prominent in election campaigns , but there is more to the UK silence than that . |
| 16 | Smile or squirm at the acronym SLUG — there is more to the name than meets the eye . |
| 17 | In Western societies like Britain awareness of the possible or actual dangers of RE is more to the fore than appreciation of its potential assets . |
| 18 | But there is more to the difficulty than this : the width of the belt of incised meanders in the limestone is often greater than the width of the floodplain in the clay . |
| 19 | There is more to the story of the golden calf than the features we have already mentioned . |
| 20 | ‘ What is more to the point , she was , as the physician informed me , not dead — not quite ! ’ |
| 21 | If and in so far as there are any presumptions which assist in my conclusions ( and I instinctively dislike introducing presumptions in reaching a decision of fact as crucial as this ) , the presumption that a state of affairs continues until the evidence suggests that it no longer pertains is more to the point than the submission of Mr. Levy that the sanctity of life is so vital an interest to protect that if I am in any doubt that should take precedence . |
| 22 | " What are you , is more to the point . |
| 23 | For while it is the case that the academic community is distinguished by its ‘ elaborated ’ discourse ( Gouldner 1976 ) , it is more to the point that each disciplinary community has developed its own elaborated discourse . |
| 24 | In The Psychoanalysis of Culture I drew attention to the megalomania of early divine kingships without , at the time , seeing its relation to the depressive aspects of the early agriculture on which these institutions were based.ll Nevertheless , it is now clear , as I hope to show , that the two opposite types of symptom do in fact appear in connection with the coming of agriculture and , which is more to the point for our present concerns , that this is a phenomenon not without relevance to the understanding of the modern world . |
| 25 | This is a task that is better done by the human eye , together with — and this is more to the point — the 10-giganeurone computer inside the skull . |
| 26 | It is more to the point to examine social practices . |
| 27 | That is undoubtedly true , yet one suspects that there is more to the matter than seasonal facilities for dancing in the nude . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , the question still remains as to whether there is more to the situation than a simple failure in superego-development and a consequent antagonism towards all forms of authority and restraint . |
| 29 | He insists that there is more to the emancipation of black people than opposition to racism . |
| 30 | Much of the interest in the plot lies in the revelation of her past , but there is more to The Chalk Garden than the melodramatic unfolding of dark secrets . |