Sentence examples for work owing from inspiring English sources

He's a self-employed IT and electrical consultant; his wife is unable to work owing to medical problems.

Daniel Rogers, 38, from Manchester, received incapacity benefit (IB) for a number of years because he was unable to work owing to ill health.

Dumas and her studio manager maintained a so-called "blacklist" of collectors to whom they would not sell her work, owing to these collectors' supposed habit of flipping the work for profit.

The introduction states clearly that "there are few letters for the period 1941-44, anotnot a single letter about the work, owing to Beckett's circumstances during the war".

It's true that it's almost impossible to get a toehold on much of Porter's later work, owing to its high varnish: her characters can barely breathe beneath the sheen.

"The Naked and the Dead" sold 200,000 copies in just three months — a huge number in those days — and remains Mr. Mailer's greatest literary and commercial success, even though it is in part an apprentice work, owing a large and transparent debt to Dos Passos, Tolstoy and Farrell.

My friend (an architect) believes that Prouvé's work owes its beauty to his aesthetic sensibility.

Poe's work owes much to the concern of Romanticism with the occult and the satanic.

The work owes much to the example of Tino Sehgal, but it has its own charms.

The lords also continued to require the services of labourers, although the shortfall increased between work owed and work needed.

His life, and his work, owes so much to luck, to chance, he says.