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Meanings of more beholden in inglês

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Usage of more beholden in inglês
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We are as much, if not more beholden to luck than skill.
The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography
2
If this were so, we must say that England is much more beholden to him than Christianity.
Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2
3
Even local appointments were more beholden to weather and the temperament of one's horse than the accuracy of one's clock.
Wired
4
The captain owed nothing to any of these fop-makers in his dress, nor was his person much more beholden to nature.
History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
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The move meant the banks would be far more beholden to bank regulators and would be subject to more restrictive capital requirements.
The quants: how a new breed of math whizzes conquered wall stree...
6
This rhetoric of women "enslaving themselves", becoming ever more beholden to the patriarchy when they present themselves sexually, is common.
The Guardian
7
I have heard that he loves one in secret, and I am therefore the more beholden to him for discovering Mabel to me.
Windsor Castle
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Do you really fancy you should be more beholden to your correspondent, if he had been damning you all the while for your importunity?
Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers
9
There's another that you're more beholden to than you are to me and my boys, maybe, but he don't allow me to tell his name.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete
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"For that," answered I, "I am the more beholden to God and your amiable disposition.
Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre — Volume 1
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