Example sentences of "that owed [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | There were fightmarks on her flat face , and she had a figure that owed more to steroids and implants than nature . |
| 5 | Roman kissed her deeply , murmuring comfortingly before taking them both to heights that owed more to heaven than to earth . |
| 6 | She concentrated on the fire , producing something that owed more to determination than competence . |
| 7 | They began as small , elitist institutions that owed much to the 19th century concept of the German university . |