Example sentences of "was [adj] largely to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that the restaurant was successful was due largely to the way in which their respective talents complemented each other . |
| 2 | During the formative years of cultural studies in Britain ‘ textualism ’ was dominant , but the growing disenchantment with its Althusserian paradigm ( of which the Screen/Screen Education division was just one sign ) was due largely to the inability of that paradigm to inform a criticism of telling political intervention . |
| 3 | The success of Hornby 's invention was due largely to the principle of gradation from simple sets to others , larger with more complicated mechanisms . |
| 4 | The popularity of South Africa 's kruggerrand was due largely to the fact that collectors were buying a precise quantity of gold at only a fraction over the actual cost of the precious metal . |
| 5 | The popularity of South Africa 's kruggerrand was due largely to the fact that collectors were buying a precise quantity of gold at only a fraction over the actual cost of the precious metal . |
| 6 | The popularity of South Africa 's kruggerrand was due largely to the fact that collectors were buying a precise quantity of gold at only a fraction over the actual cost of the precious metal . |
| 7 | The growth of the bill mountain in the first half of the 1980s was due largely to the policy of overfunding the PSBR — that is , selling more public sector debt to the non-bank private sector than was needed to match the size of the PSBR . |
| 8 | Waiting to go into hospital was devoted largely to the consideration of this strange disease that had so suddenly materialized from nowhere , secreted itself in my hitherto unglamorous , unblemished , unconsidered inside and now threatened me . |
| 9 | During World War I the Swindon works was devoted largely to the production of munitions under Churchward 's direction . |