Example sentences of "owe nothing to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Araminta is given a curious grace of movement and a gift for surprising which , as they owe nothing to the intellect , must have been excessively difficult to achieve . |
| 2 | The offended looks of the muzzy black citoyen who is put in to own Salim 's store when trade is politicised are funny , and important , and owe nothing to the Aeneid . |
| 3 | The dramatic political and diplomatic developments of 1988 — of more importance to the achievement of a substantive peace than anything else since 1967 — owed nothing to the peace process . |
| 4 | Taking all of these courts and their personnel , bailies , clerks and procurators-fiscal , a great landowner like the Duke of Montrose was able to oblige a considerable number of his friends with offices which owed nothing to the Government . |
| 5 | His intelligence owed nothing to the college . |