Example sentences of "[adv] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Not always through royal initiative , and certainly not by a deliberate policy , Edward I 's reign witnessed some major developments much to the long-term disadvantage of the English church . |
| 32 | His earliest houses rejected the formal plan of the average Victorian house , but his exteriors owed much to the historic vernacular styles of the older generation . |
| 33 | The religious climate of the town doubtless owed much to the lingering high church influence of Crewe . |
| 34 | The reasoning owed much to the following extract of the speech of Lord Wright in Grant v. Australian Knitting Mills Ltd . |
| 35 | Without adding much to the defensive capabilities of the palace , these outworks succeeded in masking the original work of Shah Jehan ‘ like a veil over a beautiful bride , ’ as Dr Jaffery put it . |
| 36 | They began as small , elitist institutions that owed much to the 19th century concept of the German university . |
| 37 | This owes much to the static profits expectations . |
| 38 | He made a drama of it , much to the poor girl 's consternation and humiliation . |
| 39 | Arthur admits that , while he is not ill , he has noticed how he has ‘ good days and bad days ’ , probably due as much to the extra medication he now has to take , as the virus itself . |
| 40 | This interest owes much to the recent establishment that population growth in the past was particularly responsive to changes in the age at which women married and in the level of female celibacy . |
| 41 | Nevertheless , the image of an out of control , imperial president became well established in the early 1970s and contributed much to the strong backlash against presidential power that bedevilled Ford and Carter . |
| 42 | That cabinet came as a huge disappointment to the public and opposition , contributing much to the present unstable atmosphere . |
| 43 | Tradition does n't seem to mean much to the present Government . |
| 44 | This corresponds broadly with the approach of the previous chapter , and owes much to the Weberian analysis of bureaucracy . |
| 45 | Japan has taught much to the Western business world . |
| 46 | That owes much to the long prosperity of California 's economy and its ( until now ) robust property market . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | However , the victory in the Lok Sabha election was far from emphatic and owed much to the so-called " sympathy vote " aroused by the assassination of the party 's leader , Rajiv Gandhi , soon after voting had started in mid-May [ see pp. 38175-76 ] . |
| 49 | By contrast , some of Marx 's and Engels 's views on slavery , views which owed much to the classical historians whom they used as their sources , still seem to hold up extremely well . |
| 50 | It can be perfectly reasonably claimed that this current heir of classicism owes much to the original : we saw , in Chapter 1 , that Beccaria 's focus was equally practical and almost as narrow . |
| 51 | More particularly , his sense that his calling as a monk , far from being incompatible with preaching to pagans , positively required it , owes much to the Gregorian influence . |
| 52 | Many of them contribute much to the musical life of those congregations whose members enjoy singing to the accompaniment of steel bands and a variety of other musical instruments , with their distinctive rhythms and harmonies . |
| 53 | Blatchford did not reckon much to the artistic qualities of the old-fashioned melodrama presented on the stage , but he thought the audience ‘ were human enough for anything ’ . |
| 54 | There were economic motives , for the crusades owed much to the commercial enterprise of the Italian cities . |
| 55 | Attitudes , relationships and administrations owed much to the ethical imperatives of the playing fields . |
| 56 | Liley , on Leicester 's behalf , also scored all their points , the try being a six-man effort which owed much to the common sense of Boyle and the alertness of Rory Underwood , whose final Twickenham appearance , after all , will be this Saturday when the RAF meet the Army . |
| 57 | Nevertheless , there are good grounds for thinking that the ‘ pay explosion ’ owed much to the institutional structure of British industrial relations [ Phelps Brown , 1975 ] . |
| 58 | Within days my razor-sharp gleaming long knife was slicing away as fast an an Austin Seven 's piston , much to the watching queue 's fascinated appreciation . |
| 59 | Some of these livings they were certainly granted by the influence of English churchmen and the king , eager to retain representatives at the Curia , but the majority seem to have been acquired through papal provision : the pope was remunerating his servants out of the English church 's endowments , much to the growing fury of English patrons and politicians . |
| 60 | In the circumstances , the article was moderate in tone and presented both sides of the case ; it would not have impaired judicial authority or added much to the growing moral pressure on the manufacturers to settle the claim . |