Example sentences of "owe something to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could argue that the most interesting directors in mainstream Hollywood today are people like David Lynch , Joe Dante and others : tele-visionaries whose aesthetic owes something to the disjunctions of the small screen . |
| 2 | This coexistence of change and resistance owes something to the limits set by nature . |
| 3 | Much as he mistrusted almost every Irishman with whom he came in contact on the Continent ( Bishop Clement for his disrespect of patristic authority , the priest Sampson for his cavalier attitude to the baptismal rite , Virgil of Salzburg for sowing dissension between himself and the duke of Bavaria as well as for believing that the world was round ) , Boniface 's establishing of monasteries as the learned back-up to missionary work and his devotion to the papacy and to Rome both owed something to the Irish background in England . |
| 4 | Its formation may have owed something to the traditional structure of the peasant commune ; its unity and authority were enhanced by the absence of firmly entrenched separate trade unions ; and its electoral procedure was drawn directly from the experience of the Shidlovsky Commission . |
| 5 | The growing hostility between Richard and the Stanleys after 1484 can be explained in terms of the king 's policies , but it may also have owed something to the frictions of the previous fifteen years . |
| 6 | This curious reversal of roles may have owed something to the agreement of the Liberals to support a government without a clear majority ; the legislation was the Housing ( Homeless Persons ) Act of 1977 promoted by a Liberal , Stephen Ross . |
| 7 | The growing hostility between Richard and the Stanleys after 1484 can be explained in terms of the king 's policies , but it may also have owed something to the frictions of the previous fifteen years . |
| 8 | They are perhaps owe something to the tabloid newspapers and colour supplements , as these have emerged in the post-war years , with their high illustrative content and minimal text . |
| 9 | It is possible that the character and appearance of Stephen Maturin owe something to the friendship between Captain M. in Marryat 's The King 's Own and the surgeon MacAllen , a dedicated amateur naturalist who used the ships on which he served as convenient repositories for live and dead specimens from their ports of call . |
| 10 | No doubt , repeated election victories under the leadership of Mr Hawke owe something to the disunity of Right-wing forces in Australia , but the fresh emphases in Labour thinking are also very significant . |
| 11 | Indeed , this lack of distinctiveness owed something to the changes which had occurred during the inter-war years . |
| 12 | The general appearance of the cars owed something to the American inter-urban , almost the only example of this type in Britain . |
| 13 | It owed something to the atmosphere of Leo XIII 's innovation ( but even in 1893 Loisy , a leading French biblical scholar and modernist , had lost his chair at Paris , and an encyclical had been published affirming the complete inerrancy of the Bible ) . |
| 14 | This owed something to the thoroughness with which Gloucester outmanoeuvred the opposition , which meant that he did not need to hunt for extra support . |
| 15 | Such an anachronism owed something to the belief of Simon Draper — Virgin 's ‘ ears ’ — in the higher ideals of musical taste . |
| 16 | He developed a distinctive style which owed something to the German illustrator Wilhelm Busch . |
| 17 | Pearson 's work owed something to the influence of his Johnsonian friend , Hugh Kingsmill [ q.v . ] . |
| 18 | This owed something to the thoroughness with which Gloucester outmanoeuvred the opposition , which meant that he did not need to hunt for extra support . |
| 19 | This ‘ conveyor belt ’ view of the oceanic crust , which owed something to the earlier ideas of Holmes , was termed seafloor spreading by Dietz , another American geologist . |
| 20 | We may be meant to think that time is simultaneous , in a way that may owe something to the simultaneity propounded , ‘ perhaps ’ , in Eliot 's Four Quartets , where ‘ History is now and England ’ ; or that it is cyclical , a turning wheel , with human depravity paling into insignificance as the wheel turns into modern times . |
| 21 | This impressive series of statutes may owe something to the influence of Justinian 's Code and Digest , which was the core of Roman law and the foundation of the training of civil lawyers ; yet while Roman law was part of the atmosphere breathed by nearly all lawyers in the thirteenth century , and at least one outstanding civil lawyer , Vacarius , was familiar to Englishmen , the statutes on the whole betray little impress of Justinian , concerned as they were largely with the clarification of traditional indigenous and feudal problems . |
| 22 | From this perspective , the growth of government may well owe something to the need by capital to socialise demand and legitimate the mode of production ; on the other hand , political power is relatively open and the growth of government may be driven by pluralistic bargaining , rising expectations and through effective working-class parties seizing power due to a fortuitous combination of forces in the political struggle over and around the state . |
| 23 | Many of these ‘ deformations ’ may also owe something to the fact that , as Cézanne moved from one section of his canvas to another , he unconsciously altered the structure of objects in an effort to relate rhythmically each passage of painting to the areas around it.1 But apart from emphasizing the aesthetic or two-dimensional plane on which he was working , the tipping forward of certain objects or parts of objects also gives the sensation that the painter has adopted variable or movable viewpoints and that he thus has been able to synthesize into a single image of an object a lot of information gathered from looking at it from a series of successive viewpoints . |