Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Highlands and Islands Integrated Development Programme in the UK has its equivalent in the Lozere department but no IDP exists in the Auvergne and the implications for nature conservation of these programmes would have to be the subject of a specific study when their impact is clearer . |
| 6 | The aristocratic disdain for manual labour has its counterpart in the Situationist ’ attitude to the working class considered as the moronised victims of the spectacle . |
| 7 | His dance throughout has its base in the classical vocabulary but MacMillan has coloured it by gestures from cabaret and vaudeville dance traditions , which serve to reveal not only class differences in behaviour but also genuine feelings . |
| 8 | If uneven development has its foundation in the unequal division of labour in society , then over time regional inequality will change , not only in its geographical pattern , but also in its nature , as the division of labour in society changes . |
| 9 | And Turkey has its share of the modern virus . |
| 10 | The process of gestation has its parallel on the psychological level . |
| 11 | One final area which requires some discussion is the question of whether advertising has its effects in the short or long term . |
| 12 | Mentioned in the Vedas , the Upanishads and the Mahabharata , the symbol has its origin with the Vedic Aryans , its meaning being clearly defined by the Naga or Aryan initiates . |
| 13 | Analysis of such situations shows that this defensive process has its origin in the infantile conflict with parental authority about some form of instinctual gratification . |
| 14 | It is possible that those who work in education , even at senior management level , lack the confidence to press for this sort of recognition ; a diffidence which has its origin in the perceived ‘ otherness ’ referred to above , combined with the erroneous view that education has little or nothing to offer a commercial board-room . |
| 15 | It has been noted that the quantum limit has its origin in the following expression of the uncertainty principle . |
| 16 | This has its origin in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when Japan realised it needed natural resources from overseas in order to industrialise effectively to compete with the West . |
| 17 | It has its origin in the academic institution 's need to justify the endless multiplication of commentaries , from undergraduate essays to doctoral dissertations and scholarly articles . |
| 18 | The word slum , first used in the 1820s , has its origin in the old provincial word slump , meaning ‘ wet mire ’ . |
| 19 | Painting , like all poetry , has its part in the divine … ’ |
| 20 | The Geological Survey of Great Britain has its origins in the early work of the Ordnance Survey and in the research of eminent members of the Geological Society of London . |
| 21 | This work has its origins in the early intelligence test movement and , later , in a specific concern with creativeness as a possibly separable aspect of intellectual functioning . |
| 22 | In the case of suburban-type housing , the view of domestic life it ultimately reflects is a strongly traditional one that has its origins in the early development of industrial capitalism and the ensuing ideological split between ‘ public ’ and ‘ private ’ life developed by the Victorian bourgeoisie . |
| 23 | It can be argued that town planning has its origins in the early cities of , say , Egypt or Mexico , or in the architecture of Renaissance Europe . |
| 24 | The proposed Clothing Industry Management degree has its origins in the perceived need in the clothing industry for well-educated managers to ensure a viable future . |
| 25 | The existence of academic , pedagogic and utilitarian traditions in school curricula has its origins in the separate sectors of the educational system which preceded the comprehensive era . |
| 26 | As with corporate planning , strategic planning has its origins in the private sector . |
| 27 | The CAB service has its origins in the combined operation set up in 1938 by the Ministry of Health , the National Council for Social Service and the Family Welfare Association to provide advice and information in an emergency . |
| 28 | They , exclusive of all other species , are free to choose , and in the final analysis , that instinct which has its origins in the mammalian family life is most likely to take precedence , and humans will choose to live with the relatively small family group as the ultimate refuge . |
| 29 | The term has its origins in the Old French word ‘ ecurie ’ which meant a barn or a stable . |
| 30 | Planning as a local authority responsibility has its origins in the public health and housing policies of the nineteenth century , but from the outset the objectives were broader than a simple emphasis on the efficient use of land . |