Example sentences of "owes a [adj] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But its modern standing owes a surprising amount to the British , who gave Pau a great lift in the nineteenth century . |
| 2 | Different sociologists have adopted these different views , and others fall in between , but it is certain that any theory of stratification owes a great debt to Marx 's account of classes , even if the sociologist ends up rejecting Marx as mistaken or overtaken by history . |
| 3 | Its present appearance today owes a great deal to the Duke of Marlborough who in 1704 remodelled the town . |
| 4 | Obviously , contemporary interest in Leapor owes a great deal to a general shift in eighteenth century studies . |
| 5 | → I would add to N B Cherry 's letter by saying that of course modern guitar design owes an awful lot to the pioneer designs of the ‘ 40s and '50s in very much the same sort of way that the modern motor car owes a great deal to its predecessors — that is to say , four wheels , petrol driven internal combustion engine etc. , etc. , you get my drift . |
| 6 | But his recovery also owes a great deal to his personal courage . |
| 7 | All these changes fall well within the observation that ‘ political activity in its contemporary form ’ owes a great deal to the existence and practices of the mass media . |
| 8 | The theoretical position underlying these interpretations is broadly described as ‘ monetarism ’ , a doctrine which owes a great deal to two American economists , Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman . |
| 9 | The Department owes a great deal to Noel Thomas and it is a measure of his success as Chairman that when at the end of the 1989 academic year he handed over the hot seat to Angus Easson , the latter 's first task was one of consolidation . |
| 10 | This family of views , which derives from many of the same commitments as its predecessors , but owes a great deal to the development of the computer , has among others the rather unenlightening labels functionalism , cognitive science , cognitive psychology , and artificial intelligence-several of which labels obviously have other uses . |
| 11 | I would argue that the persuasive force of these statements owes a great deal to their teleological format . |
| 12 | Clearly the improvement of the unemployment situation in Scotland during the 1970s owes a great deal to the new employment opportunities created by the discovery of North Sea oil , whereas the political troubles in Ireland have had an adverse effect on the local employment situation there . |
| 13 | Clearly , the special character of the National Health Service structure owes a great deal to the strength of special interests , though its reorganization in the 1970s owed much to ‘ managerial ’ thinking . |
| 14 | This idea of the innovative power of movements obviously owes a great deal to the events of the 1960s when there appeared quite suddenly large-scale movements expressing profound discontent with , and opposition to , the existing social and political order . |
| 15 | The expansion of middle-income purchasing power owes a great deal to England 's unique rate of urban growth . |
| 16 | It is basically a German cathedral as it was mainly built by Germans , but it clearly owes a great deal to the influence of French cathedral design . |
| 17 | Cyrene , like Syracuse , was culturally cosmopolitan , so that for instance its art owes a clear debt to Athens , witness the bronze head from the mid-fifth century , in the style of Phidias ( Chamoux , Cyrene , plate xxiv , 3–4 ) ; it was multi-racial , so that the sixth-century reformer Demonax allowed one tribe for the native ‘ dwellers round about ’ , as well as one for the old Greek settlers and one for new arrivals ( Hdt. iv.161 , cp. 159.4 ) . |
| 18 | This applies , for example , where a debtor owes a single debt to two people jointly , in which case only one of the two petitioners need swear the affidavit verifying . |
| 19 | A director owes a fiduciary duty to the company ; there is nothing which a director can do in his or her capacity as a director which is not required to be done in good faith for the benefit of the company . |
| 20 | The idea that a local authority owes a fiduciary duty to its ratepayers is by no means new , but it has never been subjected to a thorough judicial investigation . |
| 21 | There is some doubt as to whether a health authority is primarily liable , i.e. that it owes a non-delegable duty to its patients . |
| 22 | In the case of architecture it is the idea that is seminal — little or nothing of the form is taken over ; but in sculpture what was to become the dominant type of Greek statue through the archaic period , the naked young man , kouros , owes a direct debt to Egyptian models . |
| 23 | → I would add to N B Cherry 's letter by saying that of course modern guitar design owes an awful lot to the pioneer designs of the ‘ 40s and '50s in very much the same sort of way that the modern motor car owes a great deal to its predecessors — that is to say , four wheels , petrol driven internal combustion engine etc. , etc. , you get my drift . |
| 24 | Even the decision of Midland Bank in 1989 to set up First Direct , its branchless telephone-banking arm , just outside Leeds owes an indirect debt to the tradition of Yorkshire thrift — market researchers found that people trust Yorkshire accents on the telephone . |