Example sentences of "[vb -s] [art] great [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Its present appearance today owes a great deal to the Duke of Marlborough who in 1704 remodelled the town . |
| 3 | Obviously , contemporary interest in Leapor owes a great deal to a general shift in eighteenth century studies . |
| 4 | → 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 . |
| 5 | But his recovery also owes a great deal to his personal courage . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I would argue that the persuasive force of these statements owes a great deal to their teleological format . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The expansion of middle-income purchasing power owes a great deal to England 's unique rate of urban growth . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I take it that our explanation , you and I who are the children of the children of Freud , do think that our body erm adds a great contribution to our individuation ? |
| 17 | Whether it is something as special as a wedding bouquet or as simple as a few flowers gathered on a picnic outing together , knowing where and when the flowers were picked or used adds a great deal to the meaning of the picture , and the recipient will be very touched at your thoughtful and generous gesture . |
| 18 | ‘ York Castle Museum has a great appeal to visitors from both sides of the Atlantic , ’ said Dr Andy Hodges , director of the York Castle Museum . |
| 19 | Just how black is n't fully apparent until about half-way through , when you discover that the glum little son ( a brilliant performance by a child , Bryan Madorsky ) of the happy couple ( Randy Quaid and Mary Beth Hurt ) has a great deal to be disturbed about . |
| 20 | As the setting for a love-scene it has a great deal to be desired , do n't you think ? ’ |
| 21 | The twentieth century Christian-cum-romantic ideal of a sacramentally-based , freely-adopted , lifelong , exclusive , loving partnership between one man and one woman bears no great resemblance to reality even among those English-speaking peoples by whom it is held . |
| 22 | Paying tribute to him a colleague said today : ‘ He was a man of the highest integrity and his death represents a great loss to the Northern Ireland legal system . ’ |
| 23 | Reading a paragraph in front of others offers a great opportunity to both provoke and control anxiety . |
| 24 | I will see that happening , but it is the freedom of schools to choose that is all important , and there are some particular elements of expertise which are not available to schools because it 's not available centrally , and I believe that giving schools their budgets goes a great way to meeting this . |
| 25 | Good food control contributes a great deal to good weight control . |
| 26 | ‘ Adequate resources would have to include extra staff , as this shortage contributes a great deal to our lack of staff training , i.e. the staff we have are all needed to run the service ’ … |
| 27 | ‘ Extra staff , as this shortage contributes a great deal to our lack of staff training ’ . |
| 28 | It requires an analytical and reasonably numerate mind to develop cost-effective plans ; it requires a rapport with the creative group to achieve the best match of material and medium ; it requires aggressive negotiating skills in order to achieve the best possible positions and discounts , so as to make the maximum use of the client 's money ; and it requires a great attention to detail . |
| 29 | The contempt of urban , middle-class educators for rural peasants was barely concealed : ‘ the psychological attitude of the Iranian villagers creates a great obstacle to rural reconstruction ’ . |
| 30 | To reflect the strophic build-up of the poem presents no great difficulty to a translator ; what is extremely difficult is to render into English , a stress-timed language , an idea of a metre based on syllabic timings . |