Example sentences of "can be trace to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Banking in particular , seems particularly susceptible to failures in foreign markets caused by reactive pressures — much of the Third World debt problems can be traced to banks looking for easy foreign expansion routes when faced by lack of growth in domestic markets . |
| 2 | The downfall of Gen Noriega can be traced to the brutal killing of the opposition leader , Hugo Spadafora , found beheaded in 1985 . |
| 3 | I guess we 'll never know looking back on it , various things can be traced to David and other things to Tony . |
| 4 | Its roots can be traced to the heady sounds of El Rocco ; but ‘ Beyond El Rocco ’ demonstrates that much of the inspiration of Australian jazz now comes from Australians themselves . |
| 5 | Much of their interest can be traced to the persistence of Friedrich Christians , the chairman of the supervisory board of the Deutsche Bank . |
| 6 | Many of the goats described in the 30 or so scientific studies that have since been published on the phenomenon ( the earliest in 1904 ) can be traced to those bred and cared for by Mayberry . |
| 7 | I also suggest that much of the bewilderment felt by teachers about the nature of the subject that they were teaching can be traced to both Brian Way 's and Dorothy Heathcote 's disclaimer that drama could be important in itself . |
| 8 | And since each book here can be traced to those whose decision it was to discard , it is important to emphasise that no personal blame is implied , and that the responsibility for what occurred is not his necessarily , but of those who employed him . |
| 9 | Despite the contemporary tone of much of Action for Cities , the programme 's heritage can be traced to the early 1960s studies which provided the basis for the 1965 Milner–Holland Report on housing and the 1967 Plowden Report on education , as a result of which general improvement areas and education priority areas were established . |
| 10 | It reiterates an orthodoxy whose source can be traced to one specific article ( Lemann , 1986 ) . |
| 11 | Many other breeds have white faces , too , but not necessarily from Hereford or Simmental blood , though the Kazakh Whiteheaded ( USSR ) owes its origins to imported Herefords crossed with the native Kazakh in the 1920s , while the Canadian black or red Hays Converter 's white face can be traced to its Hereford origins in the early 1950s . |
| 12 | The development of paper money can be traced to economic and social developments in Western Europe during the 1600s . |
| 13 | Library workbooks are particularly popular in academic libraries in the US and their widespread use can be traced to developments of Miriam Dudley 's workbooks used at the undergraduate library at the University of California at Los Angeles . |
| 14 | Both effects can be traced to the compound capsaicin , which is now creating a great deal of interest in the neurophysiological as well as the culinary community . |
| 15 | There is little doubt that some of the greatest sources of evil in the world can be traced to the gross abuse of that area of human activity which is termed ‘ religion ’ . |
| 16 | More frequently , the cause of problems can be traced to an excessive desire to stick to policies or to a lack of understanding by the planning officers of the realities of life for developers and occupiers of property . |
| 17 | Not all can be traced to the Black Death , but it must have been a significant factor . |
| 18 | Dr Robert Bradnock , of London 's School of Oriental and African Studies , said current problems can be traced to when Moslems held power in India and built mosques on Hindu shrines five centuries ago . |
| 19 | A series of strange events have happened in the building which can be traced to the ghost of an old railwayman , and more recently the spirit of an art student who unfortunately got hooked on hard drugs , which combined with drink killed him after he had attended the celebration party to launch the Horizon Recording Studio . |
| 20 | I believe that the paradoxes of the mind-body relationship can be traced to this logical structure and their solution to be found in the light of this interpretation . |
| 21 | The schizophrenic 's and schizotypal individual 's hypersensitivity , which many clinicians have emphasised , can be traced to weak modulation of stimuli that impinge upon the mind , leading to an undue awareness of events — both internal and external — less available to others . |
| 22 | Everything that Margery says can be traced to what she would hear in sermons and readings . |
| 23 | The origins of the battle , however , can be traced to 29 July 1914 , before the outbreak of war , when the British Fleet was prudently dispatched by Winston Churchill , First Lord of the Admiralty , to its war station at Scapa Flow , off the northeastern tip of Scotland . |
| 24 | If a reductive programme of this kind is possible , we may be tempted to provide a rational reconstruction of our knowledge which shows how the credibility of derived claims can be traced to that of the foundation . |
| 25 | The origin of the theory of sexual selection can be traced to a peacock — or , rather , a peahen owned by Lady Tynte . |
| 26 | Andersons 's insistence that the notion of social class must be defined in structural terms can be traced to an over-riding commitment to holism . |
| 27 | But his hostility to this view can be traced to the more general antipathy to voluntarism which we have already examined in Althusser 's work , and which , according to Poulantzas , underlies the traditional Marxist account . |
| 28 | He first claims that accidents are unable to outweigh ‘ social needs ’ , which can be traced to the social relations of a society , themselves ultimately caused by its productive forces . |
| 29 | The need to separate the functions of chairman and chief executive has been a raging debate in City of London parlours for the past couple or years , and companies at which the two roles are combined in one person have been under enormous pressure to accept a separation of powers : now the same debate could take off across the Atlantic as Compaq Computer Corp 's ( non-executive ) chairman Ben Rosen tells the House Telecommunications and Finance Subcommittee that the troubles that have beset some of America 's largest companies can be traced to cozy relationships between their boards and their chief executives — he declares that the boards of most US companies are chaired by the company 's chief executive , who picks the board members and controls the agenda — ‘ With an appropriate form of corporate governance , I fully believe that the current problems of IBM , Digital Equipment , Westinghouse and other major American corporations could have been addressed and probably solved far earlier with much reduced ill effects , ’ Rosen told the legislators , adding that a company 's chairman should be a ‘ truly outside independent director , ’ not the chief executive or a former chief executive , and that all board members , with the exception of the chief executive , should also be outsiders , who should get their directors ' fees in the form of shares or options . |
| 30 | Eighteenth-century politics have long had an unsavoury reputation , and although in the case of Scotland much of that reputation can be traced to the persuasive , but not strictly accurate , writings of Henry Cockburn and other Whig reformers of the early nineteenth century , it must be conceded at the outset that there is something to be said for the received account . |