Example sentences of "owes a [adj] [noun sg] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But its modern standing owes a surprising amount to the British , who gave Pau a great lift in the nineteenth century . |
| 2 | Obviously , contemporary interest in Leapor owes a great deal to a general shift in eighteenth century studies . |
| 3 | Its present appearance today owes a great deal to the Duke of Marlborough who in 1704 remodelled the town . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A director owes a fiduciary duty to the company ; there is nothing which a director can do in his or her capacity as a director which is not required to be done in good faith for the benefit of the company . |
| 11 | → 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 . |
| 12 | Even the decision of Midland Bank in 1989 to set up First Direct , its branchless telephone-banking arm , just outside Leeds owes an indirect debt to the tradition of Yorkshire thrift — market researchers found that people trust Yorkshire accents on the telephone . |