Example sentences of "owe [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I owe the show a lot obviously , but my contract is up for renewal in June this year and I will have to think about it seriously then . |
| 2 | To Pavlov we owe the concept of a ‘ conditioned reflex ’ . |
| 3 | Finally , from within psychoanalytical criticism but from outside the Anglo-American paradigm , Gertrud Koch has drawn attention to a different theorisation of the gaze , one that does not link it to voyeuristic ( peeping through the keyhole ) pleasure but rather to the earlier , pre-symbolic stage in which the small child gazes openly at the world and at its mother : ‘ We may in fact owe the invention of the camera not to the keyhole but to the baby-carriage ’ . |
| 4 | The world owes you nothing : you owe the world . |
| 5 | The psychic reasons for this solidarity I have tried to give in this essay , just as I have attempted to spell out some of the political consequences , but it is to Dahrendorf that we owe the making of the connections between solidarity and economic consequences . |
| 6 | ‘ I owe the club a great deal because they took a chance on me , but that does n't mean I will do anything stupid . ’ |
| 7 | The club announced on Tuesday that they made a £1.4m trading loss in the year ending May , 1992 , and they owe the bank £2.2m in loans and overdraft . |
| 8 | To these we owe the ‘ Mozart versions ’ of Acis and Galatea and Messiah . |
| 9 | I owe the club a lot and thought it only sensible to continue . ’ |
| 10 | And she was in tears as he said : ‘ All of us owe the same debt to Glenys because if there was a complete partnership , this is it . |
| 11 | Of major significance in the relationship of self-concept to non-violence is the fact that this value system and the ideals of self which it informs are shared by both men and women ( I owe the recognition of this significance to Joanna Overing 's paper in this volume ) . |
| 12 | Although I was brisk at the beginning about the philosophical attitudes of AI workers , I owe the reader some small sample of them , that I can refer back to later . |
| 13 | But their new life may be worse than their old as they struggle to repay the $15,000 or more they owe the smuggler . |
| 14 | If it gets as far as a decision , it will prove the leading case for some time on the thorny issue of what duty regulators owe the customers of the regulated . |
| 15 | You owe the Lenihan family one , and you know it . |
| 16 | And we must not forget that it is to a Public Relations expert that we owe the invention of traditional Irish coffee laced with Irish whiskey , which nobody will deny is a very great improvement on Irish coffee tout court . |
| 17 | Supp. , and the nancy poets and the Archbishop of Canterbury and Comrade X , author of Marxism for Infants — all of us really owe the comparative decency of our lives to poor drudges underground , blackened to their eyes , with their throats full of coal dust , driving their shovels forward with arms and belly muscles of steel . |
| 18 | The landowner , Lord Wharncliffe , conscious of the loss of one of Britain 's greatest natural assets , immediately instructed his workmen to reconstruct the lip exactly as it was before , and it is to him that we now owe the sight of Hardraw Force in all its almost-original splendour . |
| 19 | We owe the next great advance in the appreciation of precious stones to the Hellenistic and Roman heirs of Alexander 's conquests which served to promote new dynasties and enhance trade between the Mediterranean and India . |
| 20 | To this we owe the diffusion not only of pearls but of transparent precious stones , notably red garnets , green emeralds , blue sapphires and , crowning all , diamonds . |
| 21 | It is not possible to say that all agents owe the same duties to their principals : it is always necessary to have regard to the express or implied terms of the contract . |
| 22 | There was William Foreman , a pioneer of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants , Alexander Wilkie , the general secretary of the Associated Society of Shipwrights and former MP for Dundee , and there were John Wilson and William Crawford of the Durham Miners , both Members of Parliament for divisions of the County Palatine in the 1880s , not to mention one of the most respected leaders of his day , Robert Knight of the Boilermakers to whom we owe the present day Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions . |
| 23 | So employers , in my experience , even to the day I left , always owe the workman something for what he 's done |
| 24 | She gladly gave her blood for a substantial blood transfusion , and the patient was told after-wards by the doctor , ‘ You owe the fact that you are alive today to the crossing sweeper who first detected a movement in you when you were in the mortuary and then gave her blood for you . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Everard 's wife has flu , ’ Rupert explained , ‘ so we owe the pleasure of your company this evening to that rather unfortunate occurrence , ’ he went on , feeling that in some obscure way he was being complimentary neither to Penelope nor to the absent Mildred Bone , but not quite seeing how else he could have put it . |
| 26 | To the late Dr Melville Clark , the Reader in Rhetoric , I owe the discovery that I had some talent for editing text . |
| 27 | But I want to begin this morning by thanking you on behalf of the group , because all of us owe the G M B an enormous debt of gratitude none more than myself . |
| 28 | We owe the milkman for three weeks . |
| 29 | ‘ I paid some of what we owe the milkman and I bought some sausages and some bacon from Woolworth 's because we owe Whiting 's and I did n't want to go in there . ’ |
| 30 | Not only am I aware of that dependence ; I am aware of the debt that we owe the area and of the real contribution made by the people of Plymouth to the Royal Navy and the Royal Marine Commandos , among other units involved . |