Example sentences of "owes [indef pn] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Be that as it may , our source notes that Spring has been written from scratch , is not Unix and owes nothing to AT&T 's code . |
| 2 | It certainly owes nothing to any rational assessment of electoral support . |
| 3 | Like-for-like sales growth at Olympus was a hefty 18 per cent and Miss Selfridge chalked up gains of 17.4 per cent which owes something to comparatively grim weather in the previous year but also shows that mortgage pressures do not bear down on customers equally . |
| 4 | On the other hand , the stage represented by the gens in The Origin , a stage which owes something to Morgan and something to Engels , represents the coming together of the rhetorical and the historical . |
| 5 | The secret of Proudfoot 's success is hard to encapsulate but it owes something to its leadership in productivity consultancy , advice which is likely to have enduring appeal when times are hard . |
| 6 | You could argue that the most interesting directors in mainstream Hollywood today are people like David Lynch , Joe Dante and others : tele-visionaries whose aesthetic owes something to the disjunctions of the small screen . |
| 7 | Jean Packman concludes by showing that new policy embodied in future legislation owes something to child care research studies in recent years . |
| 8 | Their refusal owes something to a distaste for addiction in itself . |
| 9 | Their certainty owes something to a sense of betrayal . |
| 10 | The author 's failure to capture Brown 's dynamism probably owes something to his apparent lack of interest in the substance of issues . |
| 11 | This coexistence of change and resistance owes something to the limits set by nature . |
| 12 | Some of Faraday 's experimental results were independently achieved , sometimes before him , by Joseph Henry in the USA , and by William Sturgeon in Manchester , for example ; and his theory of point atoms owes something to Newton , and more to Roger Boscovich ( an eighteenth-century Jesuit ) and to Joseph Priestley . |
| 13 | Milovan Djilas , who observed both Stalin and Tito at close quarters , has made the point that self-abasement too is necessary to the system : everyone is loyal to the leader , owes everything to his inspiration , is worthless without him , until someone else is leader : that someone suddenly loses his modesty . |
| 14 | Reiterlied with words by Herman Lons was written when Weill was 13 , an essay in typical German song , vaguely in the style of Brahms , the later , more sophisticated Das schöne Kind owes everything to Richard Strauss . |
| 15 | BELVILLE : [ aside ] That such a girl as this , cottage-born , who owes everything to my family and has an absolute dependence upon my pleasure should find me resistible . |
| 16 | He has not only tarnished his relationship with Leeds United Football Club ( the club that he owes everything to including his 2.75M price tag ) , he also shit on the manager and those players who are left at the club , who helped him win a championship medal . |
| 17 | It owes everything to the puppets but the tongue is firmly in the cheek for this production of Thunderbirds … |
| 18 | I do not know if this triumphant wrongdoing owes anything to the example set by Ivy in Elders and Betters , by which I am conscious of having been influenced myself . |
| 19 | In his preface to the catalogue he wrote : ‘ He no longer owes anything to his surroundings . |