Example sentences of "that owe [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | As this has been achieved with a style of football that owes little to romantic idealism , Charlton is not in trouble-free waters although even his most vigorous detractors are now inclined to take a pragmatic stance , appeased by success and forced to accept his widespread popularity . |
| 2 | ‘ Soul On Ice ’ is a self-styled disco record , which is fine by me ; unfortunately it is also a rather monotonous record with a plodding beat that owes little to the glories of mad '70s dance music . |
| 3 | The event opens with some of his more recent ‘ topiary ’ interpretations of the Minster , where the whole is dominated by a very powerful interpretation of the Crucifixion that owes much to Matthias Grunewald ( 1475/801528 ) the Mathis der Maler of Hindemith 's opera . |
| 4 | The most striking Iraqi achievement so far has been the saving of its air force , a feat that owes more to engineering than combat . |
| 5 | Firstly , it will be much more aggressive and sporty , with styling cues that owe much to the XJ220 and the failed F-type . |
| 6 | Diverse elements that owe much to the jazz-rap of groups like A Tribe Called Quest rub shoulders with the jazz guitar sound pioneered by West Montgomery and Grant Green . |
| 7 | Some artists are using this challenge as a flexibility to carve and curve the screens into new shapes that owe much to sculptured forms . |
| 8 | The consumer-oriented image has been enhanced by stylish new brochures and a credit card ordering system — devices that owe more to the commercial sector than to industry . |
| 9 | He said the Tories were destroying the national character of the health service and were intent on breaking it up and replacing it with an American-style system that owed more to accountants than doctors . |
| 10 | He said the Tories were destroying the national character of the health service and were intent on breaking it up and replacing it with an American-style system that owed more to accountants than doctors . |
| 11 | President Wilson had no particular policy except a vague notion that National Self-Determination was a good thing — a notion that owed more to America s position in the world and the nature of its own historical development than it did to the realities of European life . |
| 12 | There were fightmarks on her flat face , and she had a figure that owed more to steroids and implants than nature . |
| 13 | Roman kissed her deeply , murmuring comfortingly before taking them both to heights that owed more to heaven than to earth . |
| 14 | She concentrated on the fire , producing something that owed more to determination than competence . |
| 15 | They began as small , elitist institutions that owed much to the 19th century concept of the German university . |