Example sentences of "owes [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But nearly half of all the pasta eaten in Britain is the canned variety , which often owes little to its Italian ancestry . |
| 2 | This pricing philosophy owes little to that sacred cow , free market economics . |
| 3 | As this has been achieved with a style of football that owes little to romantic idealism , Charlton is not in trouble-free waters although even his most vigorous detractors are now inclined to take a pragmatic stance , appeased by success and forced to accept his widespread popularity . |
| 4 | This reluctance of lenders to repossess homes owes little to sentiment : few lenders want to sell assets into a falling market . |
| 5 | Though Stark 's understanding of the sociology of knowledge was both more detailed and more sympathetic than that of the functionalist commentators , it owes little to Mannheim . |
| 6 | ‘ Soul On Ice ’ is a self-styled disco record , which is fine by me ; unfortunately it is also a rather monotonous record with a plodding beat that owes little to the glories of mad '70s dance music . |
| 7 | But on a more concrete level the Demoiselles owes most to Picasso 's use of ‘ primitive ’ sources . |
| 8 | The decline in England 's lineout fortunes , one would reiterate , owes most to the fact that , thanks to the mandatory gap , it is now so much easier to get in a jump against them . |
| 9 | THE RISE in the Jaguar share price yesterday owes much to the no smoke without fire school of investment analysis . |
| 10 | Behind Sweeney Agonistes lies Rivers , but Eliot 's interpretation and use of Rivers owes much to the Stevensonian world of his childhood reading , where white men seek paradise with island wives arrayed in ‘ the scarlet flowers of the hibiscus ’ , only to find too often that they are condemned to a life of soul-destroying boredom where ‘ Night on the Beach ’ is followed monotonously by ‘ Morning on the Beach ’ . |
| 11 | Eliot 's solution of a widespread Christian community hierarchically organized , related both to the state and individual parishes and containing intellectual leaders , owes much to Benda 's notion of clercs , as well as to the anthropologists ' stress on the connection of religion with society . |
| 12 | Profile reveals that new Polo owes much to old car ; driving position good , as is rear entry with low lip ; GT engine gives 75bhp |
| 13 | The sudden , sharp increase in cross-Atlantic skiing traffic owes much to the claims of some American resorts that they can guarantee snow cover , even if as much as 75 per cent of it may be man-made . |
| 14 | The recent row between Nissan and its British distributor owes much to the pressure that both have been under recently to break into the fleet market . |
| 15 | That owes much to the long prosperity of California 's economy and its ( until now ) robust property market . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The pre-tax outcome for the year to January was still a hefty £9.1m loss — down from a restated £11½m deficit — and the £10m drop in the interest bill owes much to the £30m equity injection from Japan 's Aeon Group . |
| 18 | Birmingham 's popularity with meeting planners owes much to its ease of accesses from all parts of the UK and Europe . |
| 19 | As an organisation the Trust owes much to the tourist industry and it welcomes the opportunity to work alongside the regional tourist boards and the travel trade . |
| 20 | The present appearance of the bridge owes much to the Counter-Reformation , its famous gallery of sculpture transforming it from an ordinary thoroughfare into a via sacra ( see p. 55 ) . |
| 21 | While there are many who would argue that a measure of technical knowledge is desirable in those who use a GIS and a protection against the misuse of a powerful tool , it must now be established that maximum ‘ achievable ’ use of a software system owes much to the creation of a structured use environment , with logic controls built into the interface . |
| 22 | The medical neglect of psychosomatic illness and hypochondria must shoulder some of the blame in such situations , because the stigma attached to these disorders owes much to doctors ' negative attitudes . |
| 23 | Golden rule : the London Monarchs ' success owes much to the National Football League 's classic marketing methods |
| 24 | Nevertheless , she still owes much to a male mentor who , in a previous job , told her : ‘ You can do it . |
| 25 | The wild , rhythmic drive of the first subject owes much to Shostakovich , yet the second subject would not sound out of place in a Star Trek film score , and its pseudo-oriental counter-theme is pure Hollywood . |
| 26 | The legend owes much to the testimony of his friend Bubb Doddington , who blamed the Prince 's death on ‘ suffocation ’ caused by the breaking of an abscess which had originated in the bruising made by the ball . |
| 27 | In fact , the hidden soul within the new sound owes much to the black southern blues masters of the early 20th century . |
| 28 | His interest in the emancipation of a class subject , as bringing about an historical synthesis , owes much to Lukács 's version of Marxism . |
| 29 | This initiative owes much to Belle Tutaev who , while pioneering for an expansion of state-financed nursery education , suggested that mothers might like to establish their own ‘ playgroups ’ . |
| 30 | The development of fully-fledged headhunting firms owes much to a growing conflict of interest between different sectors of their business experienced by the management consultants and accountants who operated headhunting departments . |