Example sentences of "owe [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This reluctance of lenders to repossess homes owes little to sentiment : few lenders want to sell assets into a falling market . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , the pattern of Japan 's postwar history owes much to Occupation policy . |
| 3 | The headhunting business as a whole , although it promotes the idea of systematising personal networks , still owes much to chance , coincidence and Lady Luck . |
| 4 | This wealth is independent of production relations and owes more to household structure and position in the life-cycle . |
| 5 | Mr Smith assures us that this ‘ strength ’ is because the Labour Party owes more to Methodism than to Marxism . |
| 6 | To talk of policy in matters of care except in the context of available resources and timescales for action owes more to theology than to the purposeful delivery of a caring service . |
| 7 | NO BRITISH sport owes more to television than athletics . |
| 8 | I am saying we must not supplant Anglican worship for a free-wheeling non-conformist style which owes more to Spring Harvest than the A.S.B . |
| 9 | The most striking Iraqi achievement so far has been the saving of its air force , a feat that owes more to engineering than combat . |
| 10 | It was frequently used by statesmen — Palmerston , Gladstone — to provide a moral gloss to a foreign policy that actually owed little to principle and much to the pragmatic calculus of the balance of power . |
| 11 | How true it is that the Labour Party has owed more to Methodism than to Marx . |
| 12 | Plays handled just that : single one-off productions including , strangely enough , opera , which was felt owed more to drama than to music . |
| 13 | The thousands of redundancies , in the cause of ‘ economies ’ , owe most to government insistence on having 25 per cent of programmes farmed out to private enterprise with its higher regard for profit than for human dignity . |
| 14 | These results owe less to diversification of any kind than to capital gains in the market for corporate control . |
| 15 | Ramsdens Bridge is a swing bridge with a stone keeper 's house which has been badly modified , a red brick porch stuck on the front and a concrete extension to the chimney owing more to utility than aesthetics . |
| 16 | The naming of tunes in Gaelic dancing has as much to do with the whim of the moment as with anything portentous : ‘ Upstairs in a Tent ’ , or ‘ The Clock on the Dresser ’ , or ‘ The Walls of Limerick , owe more to whimsy in the kitchen on the night than to any attempt by the musician to give his tune immortality . |
| 17 | The UN 's predictions of famine owe more to art than science . |
| 18 | The twenty ( or thirty ) thousand Cornishmen crossing the Tamar hand in hand and advancing on London owe more to legend and the stirring song than to history . |
| 19 | One of the most interesting things about the recent history of curriculum development and in-service education and training is that most strategies owe more to argument than empirical evidence . |
| 20 | In the economically more advanced countries , however , there does not exist a close relationship between age at first marriage and birth of first child , owing mainly to postponement of first birth through contraceptive use . |
| 21 | ‘ Sure my music is techno-based , ’ says the breathy jazz-house diva from Glasgow , ‘ but the house and rave scenes owed much to jazz in the first place . ’ |
| 22 | United owed much to goalkeeper Rees , who had earlier saved superbly from Holden and later denied Adams , first with a block with his feet then by kicking over a dipping effort from the right . |
| 23 | The quatrain poems bind up such sympathies with a way of thinking which owed much to anthropology and Eliot 's growing wish to include in his work the worlds of both the savage and the city . |
| 24 | She concentrated on the fire , producing something that owed more to determination than competence . |
| 25 | Roman kissed her deeply , murmuring comfortingly before taking them both to heights that owed more to heaven than to earth . |
| 26 | A good deal of its urban manifestation , as espoused by Mr Sillars , often seems to owe more to hatred of Labour — the barrier to its ambitions — than love of Scotland . |