Example sentences of "can be trace [adv] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consider , though , a case in which a given enterprise is unwilling to invest because of low expected profitability , yet this low prospective profitability can be traced neither to faulty managerial calculations , nor to foreign competition of a kind justifying protection , nor to the failure of an identified ‘ need ’ for the enterprise 's product to register as monetary demand , nor to internal competition from other enterprises operating a more intensive exploitation of labour . |
| 2 | Each word has component parts which can be traced back to one of 800 roots . |
| 3 | It has for long been held that our modern idea of time derives from that of early Christianity , which in turn can be traced back to that of ancient Israel and Judaism . |
| 4 | In Dr Clarke 's view , the origins can be traced back to 1924 , when Keynes published an article advocating ‘ a drastic remedy ’ for unemployment . |
| 5 | The development of the FEL can be traced back to 1950 , when Hans Motz injected 3 MeV electrons from the Stanford linear accelerator ( linac ) into a magnetic undulator , producing millimetre and submillimetre radiation . |
| 6 | The history of the mill can be traced back to 1710 but quite possibly there may have been an older mill on the same site . |
| 7 | As the modern term for this genre the word fabliau can be traced back to scholarly writing of the seventeenth century . |
| 8 | It is a fundamental concept that can be traced back to earliest times . |
| 9 | The movement can be traced back to 1844 when it started in Rochdale . |
| 10 | However the recent revival of interest in the practice , which can be traced back to 1977 , represents a new departure , rendering it of far greater potential significance than it has previously assumed . |
| 11 | Hospitals were to become a setting later in the decade for ‘ Doctor ’ films , ‘ Carry Ons ’ and such tepid dramas as Behind the Mask ( 1958 ) , but the genre can be traced back to White Corridors ( 1951 ) where , amidst the routine romantic squabbles , and an occasional lecture on the working of the NHS , two strong stories evolve : a researcher develops a drug that will kill infections resistant to penicillin and his lover secures herself a registrar 's post against nepotistic competition , by skilfully operating on a patient her rival has misdiagnosed . |
| 12 | The Larrikins , who can be traced back to 1870 in Australia , were also organised into local gangs or ‘ pushes ’ , and even allowing for exaggeration and over-involvement ( we need not readily accept , for example , that they gorged themselves on raw meat or rigged elections by terrorising voters , as was sometimes alleged ) their behaviour was unbeatably appalling . |
| 13 | But of course these tendencies can be traced back to earlier stages in his development ; and the Ode to Duty — ‘ Me this unchartered freedom tires ’ — was written the year before . |
| 14 | Quinn 's line of thought can be traced back to earlier works such as those of Lindblom ( 1959 ) and Wrapp ( 1967 ) , but he took these general ideas and turned them into a framework for observing organization behaviour and then into practical recommendations for the chief executive who is responsible for strategic change . |
| 15 | The first panspermic hypothesis can be traced back to 1743 and Benôit de Maillet , who suggested that the germs of life came to Earth from space ; they fell into the oceans and in due course grew into fish and , later , amphibians , reptiles and mammals . |
| 16 | The authoritarian philosophy can be traced back to sixteenth-century England , where strict controls were imposed on the publication of what were regarded by the king and his advisers as seditious pamphlets and journals . |