Example sentences of "owe its [noun] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The collection owes its origin to a major bequest of drawings and sculptures by the neo-classical artist John Flaxman in the 1840s and was further enriched by a bequest of German graphic works by George Grote in 1872 . |
| 2 | How about a restaurant set in the vaults of a medieval monastery , lit by candles and with a menu that owes its variety to the best raw material found around the world ? |
| 3 | Advertising today is a highly specialised business which owes its development to the continuous advance in mass communication and in manufacture — even if at its heart it still is drawing public attention to something . |
| 4 | The song really owes its existence to the Big Apple , the title being a play on Paul Simon 's ‘ The Only Living Boy In New York ’ . |
| 5 | This category , in contrast with the business salariat , owes its existence to the social democratic expansion of state services under the sign of an ideology of state-sponsored social improvement , and is therefore less likely to subscribe wholeheartedly to the traditional middle class values of personal independence and responsibility , or to go along so readily with the middle class complaints against ‘ wasteful state spending ’ and ‘ excessive taxation ’ . |
| 6 | In his statement smuggled to the Independent in London , Brucan said : ‘ I must take issue with a misconception prevailing in the West that this regime owes its survival to the repressive organs of the State . |
| 7 | It owes its effectiveness to a patented twin-nozzle diverter and clever bowl design . |
| 8 | On Feb. 13 Shin Kanemaru , the head of the Miyazawa faction , commented that many Japanese had forgotten that Japan owed its prosperity to the American market . |
| 9 | It was not an industrial region ; the city owed its origin to a medieval religious foundation , dedicated in the first place to meditation and in the second to study — hence the university . |
| 10 | This must surely indicate that the site played a part in the Roman advance into the Welsh marches , and that the town owed its origins to an early military presence . |
| 11 | This was typical of the intellectual , experimental tendencies in French music at this time , the most important of which was musique mesuree a l'antique which owed its inception to a crackbrained idea of the poet Antoine de Balf , an associate of Ronsard and Du Bellay in the Pléiade , who in 1570 persuaded Charles IX to establish an Académie de Poesie et de Musique . |
| 12 | The WBO owed its formation to the cold shoulder presented by the world to South African sportsmen during the apartheid era . |
| 13 | The colony is believed to owe its success to the continuing war between Morocco and the Polisario guerrillas , which has curtailed fishing in the area and allowed fish stocks to recover . |