verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
have/owe a duty to sb
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A tenant owes a duty to the landlord to keep the house in reasonable condition.
owe allegiance (= have a duty to give allegiance )
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You owe allegiance to your king.
owe an obligation to sb formal (= have an obligation to support, help etc someone )
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He owed an obligation of loyalty to his king.
owe its origins to sth (= used to explain how something began to exist )
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a government which owes its origins to revolution
owe sb a debt of gratitude
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I owe my former teacher a deep debt of gratitude.
owe sb a favour (= feel that you should do something for someone because they have done something for you )
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I owe you a favour for all the help you’ve given me.
owe sb an apology
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I’m afraid I owe you an apology.
owe (sb) an explanation
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I think you owe me some kind of explanation.
owe sb money
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He owes me money.
owe sb obedience
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The knights owed obedience to their king.
owe your existence to sth (= be able to exist because of something )
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The birds owe their existence to the fact that there are no natural predators on the island.
owe your life to sb (= be still alive because of someone’s actions )
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The victim said he owed his life to the stranger who helped him.
owe your survival to sb/sth
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The frogs owe their survival to a conservation program.
owing to
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Owing to a lack of funds, the project will not continue next year.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
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I didn't understand what she meant about sometimes you owe more to strangers, but I do now.
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Their election seems in the end to owe more to the system than to the voters.
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If I remember right we owed more to the Constitution than it did to us.
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Anyone who succeeded in business in the past decade owed more than a little to the climate she created.
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The best remedy for a creditor owed more than £50 was to make his debtor bankrupt.
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This wealth is independent of production relations and owes more to household structure and position in the life-cycle.
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That I hadn't forgotten he was my own flesh and blood, but that sometimes you owe more to strangers.
much
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The quality of even our grandest scenery owes much to its intimacy of scale.
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The antagonism directed towards photography from the 1860s owes much to the displacement of human handicrafts by machine methods.
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Kelly's and Salisbury's style owes much to the latter.
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The phenomenal success of his efforts owed much to his supreme mathematical skills and to his equally superb physical insights.
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Military organization, too, owed much to the whim of the Tsar.
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In turn, the types of constructions in which a verb may appear owe much to its meaning.
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The functionalist design owed much to Emberton's assistant George Fairweather.
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Each owes much to the other, but one will be the more popular.
still
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Ivan Capelli drove for the March team for five seasons, but says he's still owed the money in unpaid wages.
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A former landlord said she was still owed several thousand dollars in back rent.
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Around forty workers are still owed five months pay.
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He still owes nearly $ 2, 000 on his 1991 campaign.
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They still owed the grocer and Dad said he had had to pay another month's rent.
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He still owed Bert a fish over the bike deal.
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Reg Brealey, the club chairman, told shareholders at yesterday's annual meeting that the club still owes £2.3million.
■ NOUN
allegiance
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The authors come from a wide variety of backgrounds and owe allegiance to a wide diversity of schools of thought.
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A number of communes were independent of any seigneur, and owed allegiance to the Crown alone.
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Should they owe allegiance and obedience to him?
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We can maintain with relative certainty that at least some of the mummies owed obedience if not allegiance to the Xiongnu shanyu.
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We owe no more allegiance , Peter.
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The Empire, a loose alliance of city-states and provinces owing allegiance to its Emperor, and the kingdom of Bretonnia.
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Knights owe their allegiance directly to their lord: the Elector Count of their province.
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But it is not only Marxists who argue that bureaucracies may owe their primary allegiance to a particular class.
amount
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You may be able to get free life assurance cover for the amount you owe .
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Any funds realized in excess of the amount owed must be returned to the borrower.
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For example, if you're under 60 you get free life assurance on the total amount you owe up to £15,000.
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Any excess money collected above the amount owed the bank must be returned to the borrower.
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Answer guide: A creditor represents an amount owing by an enterprise to a third party.
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We also want this table sorted by the amount that the clients owe in descending order.
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Write the total amount you owe on pieces of marking tape.
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Use Post-its to attach the total amount you owe to your refrigerator or dashboard.
apology
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I think you owe an apology to Clegg.
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I think these people who said those hateful things about him owe him an apology .
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You owe him an apology for misjudging him and suspecting his motives at every turn.
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In light of this, do you feel you owe the world an apology ?
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You are owed an apology also.
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I guess I owe her an apology .
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Proponents of such a view owe us an apology for three avoidable Tory victories.
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Did she really owe him an apology ?
bank
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It began to lose money, and would now owe banks some £250m-300m if its contracts were enforced.
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This section lists long-term debt owed to banks or other creditors and any obligations under capital leases.
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I had to pay off what I owed the bank .
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Any excess money collected above the amount owed the bank must be returned to the borrower.
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Answer guide: Here Transom owes money to the bank which the bank can demand is repaid immediately.
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One decision will save local authorities at least part of the £500m they owe banks on contracts which they freely entered into.
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Answer guide: In this case the business owes the bank money which needs to be repaid in the short term.
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Bank deposits are credit balances owed by a bank to its customers.
care
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Jean Packman concludes by showing that new policy embodied in future legislation owes something to child care research studies in recent years.
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The second question was whether the licensing authority, which licenses medicinal products, owes a duty of care to individuals.
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The cost of remedying the defect is economic loss and neither party owes a duty of care to P2 in that respect.
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He did find that the auditors owed a duty of care to the plaintiff.
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Union Discount alleged that it was owed a duty of care by the auditors when they reported on the audit.
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To whom should auditors owe a duty of care ?
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The railway company owes a duty of care to crossing users.
deal
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But it emerges from the Kunsthaus show that he also owes a great deal to Tuggener.
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Ben concedes that he owes a great deal of his success to the help he gets from his Mum and Dad.
debt
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The debts owing by each of the bankrupts exceeded the values of their interests in the homes.
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This section lists long-term debt owed to banks or other creditors and any obligations under capital leases.
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My debt is owed to the Eston Hills.
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I wear it to remind myself of the debt I owe you.
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Years later, she acknowledged the debt she owed him for those early lessons in self-determination.
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An especially large debt is owed to the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College for supporting my research at a critical time.
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The Smiths never forgot the debt they owed to John Peel and promised to repay, some day.
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His problems were financial, and the debts he owed were ruinously large.
duty
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Third, the duty is owed to institutions which may have authority but only towards other people.
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The duty will be owed to the tenant, residents, neighbours and passers-by on the highway.
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In negligence actions the court may find that no duty of care was owed in the circumstances.
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Furthermore, within the range of duties which the State owes its citizens, failure to help is hindrance.
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Assume that a duty of care is owed by A to C as a rescue was reasonably foreseeable in the circumstances.
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His action would be determined by whether a duty was owed .
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That is the duty I owe to my cloth.
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The court would have to consider whether a duty was owed .
existence
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It owes its existence to copper, which was discovered in the surrounding Mule Mountains in 1875.
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Yet in a very real way, we all owe our existence to the absence of choice available to our ancestors.
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The concession theory regards the company as owing its existence to an exercise of state power.
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I owe my existence to their absence of choice, as, almost certainly, does everyone reading this.
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A number of missions owe their existence to the initiative and financial support given in the first place by the Association.
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Some of the wildlife of the water-mill may owe its existence to a rather more conscious decision on the part of some long-dead miller.
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There are other conceptions of consciousness which also owe their existence to the pursuit of certain virtues.
explanation
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At the very least a clear case is owed a clear explanation if it is rejected.
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Of course, a decision not to have children is a legitimate choice, and whoever makes it owes no explanation .
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At the same time I felt I was owed an explanation .
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It seemed to me I owed him some explanation .
fact
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The moribund, quasi-clerical state of the universities owed much to this fact .
favour
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He asked a policeman who owed him a favour that he wanted no-one to know about.
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And he owed Duncan a favour , not once but many times over.
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He had, now, friends in many places, or people who owed him a favour .
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I owe him a favour , so I couldn't say no.
gratitude
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In addition to that great teacher of prayer, there were others to whom I owe a debt of gratitude .
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And there were other occasions for which I owe them gratitude .
life
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She was given the special responsibility of taking care of me, and I owe her my life .
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Speedo knew that he owed his life to Rob; he was grateful and loyal.
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I owe my life to both of them, and we're all good friends.
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Composed in 1849, Sellers says the piece owes its life to a technological breakthrough: the invention of the valve.
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TWENTY-FOUR I owed my life to Martinho.
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It caught her straight across the neck and she probably owes her life to the fact that the drainpipe snapped.
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He was wearing a coat and a thick woollen scarf, to which he later claimed he owed his life .
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Others claim that some 100,000 owe their lives to his efforts.
lot
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All the guys behind Don Shula owe him a lot .
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Whereas all the Republican members owed him a lot before, he owes them a lot now.
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I owe a lot to Dan.
loyalty
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You owe them no loyalty ... you owe my country no enmity.
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He had betrayed her, taken another woman to their marriage bed and Eline no longer owed him any loyalty .
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But friends said yesterday she now felt she owed Wyman no further loyalty .
million
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On top of those arrears, the United States owes roughly $ 726 million for peacekeeping operations.
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It is also owed $ 2 million .
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The United States owes $ 464 million , nearly two-thirds of all the late dues.
money
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Apparently money was owed in Royalties for earlier operations.
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Informing San Marcos that it had made a mistake in the amount of redevelopment money the city owed the county.
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Much of the money owed was Brian's personal debt that his widow is not liable for.
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She tells me that the Mum has applied for free meals but should really pay back the money owed .
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The money that customers owe Sears. once Wall Street figured out how to package such securities, imaginations went wild.
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Arresting in this context simply means getting your hands on the money owed .
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The bulk of September's settlement was a cut in the money owed to credit card firms.
obligation
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Fiduciaries would also owe similar obligations .
origin
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Population genetics owes its origin to Francis Galton, who put the study of human heredity on a mathematical footing.
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The glass in the regolith owes its origin to impacts of cometary and asteroidal material with the lunar surface.
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The second kind of modern atheism owes its origins to Feuerbach and its most powerful expression to Marx.
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Such effects owe their origin to gradients in the field and are called tidal effects.
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As to length, there are two traditional ways of measuring and both owe their origins to tiger shooting.
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The group, he said, owed its origins to direct action by environmentalists in Britain.
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Nevertheless, it is appropriate to consider here those components of karst topography that owe much of their origin to weathering processes.
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It is quite possible that the Wandjina figures owe their origin to external influence.
position
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It owes its position to the fame of Sillery which, equally overrated, owes its reputation to the vines of Verzeray.
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Many bishops owed their position to the king.
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In the past they had a degree of self-doubt because many realized that they owed their position to factors other than merit.
success
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Perhaps, to some extent, she thought with wry amusement, she owed her professional success to Jake.
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The production owes its success to a lot more than Lewis, though.
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It owes its success entirely to recommendations from one reader to another.
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Pass the bucky A great deal of current development owes its success to a new wonder material called a carbon nanotube.
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The great individualists so often cited to show the value of personal freedom have owed their successes to earlier social environments.
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The show owes much of its success to the star names it attracts to play suspects.
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But he would be the first to admit he owed most of his success to his wife Renee.
tax
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Lagerfeld owed $ 12.5m in tax arrears.
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Call the phone number on the correspondence and explain clearly why you do not owe the tax .
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Imagine if only 13 percent of the adults who are owed tax refunds this year got them.
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You do not owe taxes charged against your spouse unless you and your spouse filed a joint return.
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Further, it is not automatic that you personally owe taxes assessed against your corporation.
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Current proposals for a child tax credit would not benefit many children because their families earn too little to owe taxes.
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I needed a release from the tax office showing that I owed no back taxes.
■ VERB
believe
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Richard Lamm, who believes seniors owe it to the nation to go quietly, inexpensively and soon.
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I believe that we owe it to Mr. Davies and to many others to pass it quickly.
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He believes that biological structures owe their architectures to the structure of data passed to them.
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Now they don't have any money, and they believe he owes them £25.
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Or l would make believe he owed me money.
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I believed I owed him some debt.
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He said the case against him had been adjourned after he said he believed he owed less than £12.
claim
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He was wearing a coat and a thick woollen scarf, to which he later claimed he owed his life.
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L operators from winning billions of dollars in damages they claim the government owes them.
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Others claim that some 100,000 owe their lives to his efforts.
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He and his friends claim Albie owed them ten thousand pounds.
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Tubeworkers, the largest of the sub-contractors, is taking High Court action over money it claims is owed by Trafalgar.
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Caldaire North-East claims it is owed almost £800,000 by Middlesbrough, Stockton and Langbaurgh councils.
feel
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We feel the world owes us.
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Bonds probably felt the Giants owed him this consideration, keeping his streak alive for a couple games by artificial means.
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For some reason she felt she owed him a serious answer.
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In light of this, do you feel you owe the world an apology?
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At the same time I felt I was owed an explanation.
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He felt as though he owed it to Mel, and to everyone.
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Two heads are better than one - and I feel I owe you on this.
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The new resource represented welcome revenue for a local government feeling a financial pinch owing to a temporary local economic downturn.
pay
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Eventually, together, we persuaded the man that Nelia should pay what she owed in instalments.
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Second, you must file and pay all taxes owing for the next five years in a timely matter.
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That sixty will pay off what you owe .
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One employee failed to report that he had been paid twice and owes the United Nations more than $ 34, 000.
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I had to pay off what I owed the bank.
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And I am quite prepared to pay whatever he owes her.
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By way of example, he suggests a threat by a debtor not to pay the £100 he owes her.
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She tells me that the Mum has applied for free meals but should really pay back the money owed .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
think the world owes you a living
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"I owe my parents a lot," he admitted. "They worked real hard to put me through college."
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His job was to phone people who owed money and demand immediate payment.
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How much do we owe you for the milk?
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How much do you owe ?
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I owe a great deal to my publishers, who helped me to finish writing the book.
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I owe it all to you. You were the only one who believed in me.
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I owe my parents a lot for everything they've done for me.
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The business collapsed, owing $50 million.
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We owe a lot of money to the bank.
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We all owe a debt of gratitude to Mrs Stevenson, who kindly donated the money for the project.
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You're going to owe me if I let you use my car.
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You still owe me $5.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But they owe , if anything, even more to Essene tradition.
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But to that doctor I owe a portion of my sanity.
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Forget what he owes his readers.
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I owe it to Carrie and Mikey.
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Ivan Capelli drove for the March team for five seasons, but says he's still owed the money in unpaid wages.
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Perhaps, to some extent, she thought with wry amusement, she owed her professional success to Jake.
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South Florida owes him the respect one gives to a stern high school teacher.
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The phenomenal success of his efforts owed much to his supreme mathematical skills and to his equally superb physical insights.