Example sentences of "owes its [noun sg] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How about a restaurant set in the vaults of a medieval monastery , lit by candles and with a menu that owes its variety to the best raw material found around the world ? |
| 2 | Advertising today is a highly specialised business which owes its development to the continuous advance in mass communication and in manufacture — even if at its heart it still is drawing public attention to something . |
| 3 | The song really owes its existence to the Big Apple , the title being a play on Paul Simon 's ‘ The Only Living Boy In New York ’ . |
| 4 | This category , in contrast with the business salariat , owes its existence to the social democratic expansion of state services under the sign of an ideology of state-sponsored social improvement , and is therefore less likely to subscribe wholeheartedly to the traditional middle class values of personal independence and responsibility , or to go along so readily with the middle class complaints against ‘ wasteful state spending ’ and ‘ excessive taxation ’ . |
| 5 | In his statement smuggled to the Independent in London , Brucan said : ‘ I must take issue with a misconception prevailing in the West that this regime owes its survival to the repressive organs of the State . |