Example sentences of "[noun sg] can be traced " in BNC.
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| 31 | Conceptual arguments in favour of employment deconcentration can be traced originally to the need to decant industry from over-congested conurbations to adjacent market towns ( Woods , 1968 ) and then to an acceptance that the extreme population concentrations of older industrial societies was neither economically necessary or inevitable ( Commins , 1978 ) . |
| 32 | Desmond Morris claims that his biomorphs " evolve " in his mind , and that their evolution can be traced through successive paintings . |
| 33 | Its foundation as the capital of Scotland in the late eleventh century , and its development in the following centuries into a distinctive city crowded on a hill within a defensive wall can be traced through its buildings . |
| 34 | The origin of the theory of sexual selection can be traced to a peacock — or , rather , a peahen owned by Lady Tynte . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | In reality , these devices are a form of laser whose development can be traced back to the post-war years and which have a wide range of applications beyond generating very high powers . |
| 37 | There are several other possible explanations but they are all of an uncertain nature , so the study will not be pursued in these pages , Instead , a name from the author 's conjugate family will be used , because its origin and development can be traced , quite unambiguously , from the thirteenth century to the twentieth . |
| 38 | As a result , an Inservice Panel was established in June 1983 , and it has been through this body that project-related INSET development can be traced . |
| 39 | As the survey above suggests , some of the developments in recent British writing can be traced not only generally , but quite specifically , each major area of modernist initiative carried forward through intermediary writers in the 1930s into particular phases of continuing experiment . |
| 40 | The idea of a primeval golden age can be traced back to the Sumerians ( c.2000 BC ) . |
| 41 | If the bulb is attached to a capillary the change in polymer volume can be traced by noting the overall change in volume registered by the movement of the mercury level in the capillary . |
| 42 | In his work , theoretically relying both on Freudianism and on variations of Parsonian functionalism , which sees the biological , egalitarian family as the culmination of the modernising process , he argues that the rise in illegitimacy can be traced to a change in the attitude towards sex of lower-class women , a change so great as to amount to a sexual revolution . |
| 43 | The modern Letter of Credit ( or Documentary Credit as it is often called ) which is used in international trade can be traced back , at least in part , to the Travellers Letter of Credit . |
| 44 | A similar pattern can be traced in the Yorkshire coalfield . |
| 45 | Leapor 's conflicting responses to this prospect can be traced in her poetry . |
| 46 | As Elcock ( 1986 , Chapter 9 ) points out , town and country , planning can be traced back to the Victorian era when enlightened industrialists sought to improve areas such as Bournville in Birmingham and Saltaire in West Yorkshire . |
| 47 | The movement can be traced back to 1844 when it started in Rochdale . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | It was much used in mediaeval times in Britain and , indeed , its use can be traced back for 3,000 years . |
| 50 | Lavender 's use can be traced back to the Greeks and Romans and it is more than likely that it was used all round the Mediterranean by Egyptians , Arabs , and Sumerians for a variety of domestic , cosmetic and perfumery needs . |
| 51 | Indeed , as far as the latter are concerned a direct line of descent can be traced from the work of Lazarsfeld and his colleagues to the modern mathematical and statistical modelling of social data . |
| 52 | Many of the training difficulties encountered with dogs in later life can be traced back to allowing them to exert a subtle dominance over you at any early stage , while they are puppies . |
| 53 | The origins of an organised market in the debt of the government can be traced to the end of the seventeenth century and during the following hundred years the growth of the Stock Exchange itself was closely bound up with the growth of government debt . |
| 54 | Using a principle of recession , Pynchon even suggests that historical plotting can be traced back through its superficial manifestations to the grouping of raw matter or to the genetic code itself ! |
| 55 | The roots for such zeal can be traced to the many dress reform movements of the nineteenth century of which the shared goal was to alleviate the pressure of fashion on dress , both for men and women . |
| 56 | Almost the whole development of the law of trusts and its interpretation can be traced back to a combination of two factors : the slight respect of trusts for set legal form ; their independence from an heir and from the will . |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | 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 ’ . |
| 60 | In each case the context-dependency can be traced to specific deictic expressions or indexicals . |