Example sentences of "[noun] roots [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , it asks questions about the rock roots of the music : how can such a fusion take place ? |
| 2 | In Joseph 's absence , one of White Bird 's young men , Wahlitits ( Shore Crossing ) — whose father , Eagle Robe , had been murdered by settlers two winters before — had trampled some drying kouse roots during a horseback parade . |
| 3 | He can start in Scotland on December 13 by going back to his world title roots with a defence against rugged American Doug DeWitt , against whom Nigel first became a world champion by winning the WBO middleweight crown back in April 1990 . |
| 4 | Gradually the walls collapse , a process often accelerated by the penetration of plant and tree roots between the stones . |
| 5 | The same principles work through the grass roots of a party . |
| 6 | I believe that only frank and open discussion can reduce the agony and frustration of those like Williams and me who are at the grass roots of the service |
| 7 | ‘ It 's vital that the people making those decisions are in touch with the grass roots of the sport — that they are out there on the ground talking to athletes and coaches , attending races and letting it be known what they are doing . |
| 8 | In addition , trouble threatened from the mercurial figure of Winston Churchill , who had resigned from the Shadow Cabinet in January 1931 in protest at Baldwin 's acceptance of eventual self-government for India , an issue which threatened to be an explosive one for the Conservative party , since it allied Churchill to the fourth source of discontent : the Diehard element , also strongly represented amongst the grass roots of the party . |
| 9 | When we talked to party workers at the county council elections there was a feeling that you have lost touch with the grass roots of the party . |
| 10 | No I do n't think I have , indeed I am meeting members of the grass roots of the party this afternoon . |
| 11 | Congress , trades councils are the grass roots of the trades union movement . |
| 12 | But even the grass roots of the club are sprouting . |
| 13 | This was how the identity of a local community was articulated against its oppressors ; this was where local men and women , also , were helped in their illnesses and misfortunes generally ; this was a major instrument of social order at the grass roots in an age of political fragmentation . |
| 14 | Behind them the rock face is bound together by the rope roots of the fig tree , and on the hillside above them are ravines thick with flowering Cape chestnuts ; above that level there are hillsides of succulents and , even higher , alpine pastures and more cliffs . |
| 15 | Ensemble is not always clean , and the strings sound rather undernourished , but for sheer daring — especially in the percussion roots of the finale — it easily eclipses subsequent versions . |
| 16 | It was a curious comment , when he would have already known that a Conservative Party election broadcast , The Journey , would show him rediscovering his south London roots from the windows of his prime ministerial limo . |
| 17 | Plant roots in the peats and estuarine sediments concentrate uranium in cell walls , especially in regions associated with transpiration processes . |