Example sentences of "owes a [adj] deal " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its present appearance today owes a great deal to the Duke of Marlborough who in 1704 remodelled the town . |
| 2 | Obviously , contemporary interest in Leapor owes a great deal to a general shift in eighteenth century studies . |
| 3 | Like Brahms 's Haydn Variations ( to which it owes a great deal ) , the work was originally published in two versions , one for full orchestra , the other for two pianos with a different final variation . |
| 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 | she owes a great deal , not only to her natural gifts , but to your tuition . |
| 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 | Even a writer as far removed from the field covered in this book as John Le Carré owes a great deal , in all but his latest work , to the blueprint detective story . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The expansion of middle-income purchasing power owes a great deal to England 's unique rate of urban growth . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Ben concedes that he owes a great deal of his success to the help he gets from his Mum and Dad . |