Example sentences of "owed a great " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since trust in Hitler had owed a great deal to the belief that he would lead Germany to a rapid and glorious peace , since despair of an early end to the war was the essential reason for the waning morale , and since the failure of the Blitzkrieg in the USSR and the declaration of war on the USA made it difficult in logic to hold anyone other than Hitler responsible for the prolonging of the war , it is worth enquiring why the ‘ Hitler myth ’ did not collapse more quickly than was evidently the case . |
| 2 | The success of Leapor 's subscription , though on a much smaller scale , probably owed a great deal to this family 's wide social connections . |
| 3 | The rate of decline has owed a great deal to the overall level of employment in the economy , so that year-to-year fluctuations have varied considerably — it has been calculated , for example , that a 1 per cent decline in the national level of unemployment is sufficient to provoke an increase in the outflow of labour from agriculture eight times as large . |
| 4 | It was observed in the last chapter that the Prague School 's views on literature and literary study were substantially those of the Formalists , but the Formalists ' influence has owed a great deal to the shape that the Prague School gave to their theory , in particular to the Prague School 's use of the concepts of structure and function . |
| 5 | It was ironic indeed ( although , of course , no one mentioned it ) that , having risen to power by lambasting the liberal democracies as " anti-Spain " , Franco 's permanence from the 1950s onwards owed a great deal to the political and economic capital invested in Spain by those same nations . |
| 6 | King Alfred 's successes may well have owed a great deal to his predecessors , but in the construction of his network of defensive fortresses we see an ability to command similar to Offa 's , and perpetuated by his son Edward the Elder and grandson Æthelstan , who conquered all England for the West Saxon dynasty . |
| 7 | And this really owed a great deal of tension ! |