Example sentences of "owed [indef pn] to the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pearson 's work owed something to the influence of his Johnsonian friend , Hugh Kingsmill [ q.v . ] . |
| 2 | This owed something to the thoroughness with which Gloucester outmanoeuvred the opposition , which meant that he did not need to hunt for extra support . |
| 3 | This owed something to the thoroughness with which Gloucester outmanoeuvred the opposition , which meant that he did not need to hunt for extra support . |
| 4 | It owed something to the atmosphere of Leo XIII 's innovation ( but even in 1893 Loisy , a leading French biblical scholar and modernist , had lost his chair at Paris , and an encyclical had been published affirming the complete inerrancy of the Bible ) . |
| 5 | Such an anachronism owed something to the belief of Simon Draper — Virgin 's ‘ ears ’ — in the higher ideals of musical taste . |