Example sentences of "its roots [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This land-ownership study really owes its roots to a challenge which the Alliance made to the Appalachian Regional Commission ( ARC ) , the government organisation concerned with regional development throughout Appalachia . |
| 2 | The cellular structure of a coconut tree is such that it convects moisture from its roots to its branches . |
| 3 | The British Idealist thinkers who shaped the New Liberalism of the period nevertheless otherwise shared many of its roots with the Fabians . |
| 4 | From its roots at MANsion House 9000 ( the initial emergency telephone line at St Stephen Walbrook in the City of London ) it has grown into a huge international movement with branches in 20 countries , most of which Varah , an inveterate traveller , has visited . |
| 5 | Although the company has been going since around 1980 , for a long while it concentrated on research and development projects for other companies : this approach stems from its roots as an offshoot of the University of Colorado . |
| 6 | He considers that the range of form in Pacific war clubs shows a gradation from the wrenched-up sapling , with its roots as spikes , to the mace of regalia . |
| 7 | In other words , Ashton created a special style for a ballet with its roots in ancient classical art yet entirely modern in outlook ( see page 130 ) . |
| 8 | The demi-caractère style has its roots in classical technique , but must be coloured by more clearly defined and individual movements which allow the dancers to show they are playing the part of some character who has some claim to live in the real world and therefore can be recognised as such . |
| 9 | Thus the pattern of accumulation of capital from trade for subsequent investment in production which was so important in late eighteenth-century Britain had had its roots in Africa before the colonial period . |
| 10 | More generally the idea of the inseparability of cultural and political revolution has a long history within the libertarian tradition with its roots in revolutionary Romanticism . |
| 11 | SOUND on the Apple Macintosh has its roots in comedy . |
| 12 | But the tide must have turned when even a big commercial panto like this at the Manchester Palace — one of 21 that Paul Elliott is producing this year — rediscovers its roots in traditional storytelling . |
| 13 | It has its roots in northern Europe , particularly Denmark , where more than 120 co-housing projects have been built since 1972 . |
| 14 | American Pentecostalism has travelled a long way from its roots in the southern states . |
| 15 | Despite its attractions as the basis for scientific explanation , classical atomism had the drawback of having its roots in Epicurus ' materialistic atheism . |
| 16 | Indeed , it may be argued that the success of Christianity in establishing the finality of the cross in dealing with sin ‘ once and for all ’ has removed from our minds its roots in the common experience of our lives . |
| 17 | In this book she shows how in the years of the establishment of the Christian Church , holiness came to be defined by the exclusion of the female , and a concept of purity which had its roots in the Old Testament was used to establish the priesthood as a wholly male structure . |
| 18 | The inability of the Party substantially to improve its image despite the personal sacrifices frequently shown by individuals in , for instance , the NSV ( the Party 's welfare organization ) , had its roots in the unpopularity of so many manifestations of the Party 's social and political role during the 1930s : the alienation produced by the attacks on the Christian Churches , the overbearing arrogance of the ‘ little Hitlers ’ , the hooliganism and loutish vulgarity of the organized mobs , and the irremovable taint of corruption and venality . |
| 19 | The militarism and caste rigidity which has been the bane of Germany in Europe , has its roots in the Thirty Years War . |
| 20 | This success , and the ability to challenge it , has some of its roots in its own backyard — namely Fort Worth , Texas . |
| 21 | The tragic depopulation of the area by emigration had its roots in the collapse of the ancient clan system after the battle of Culloden in 1746 , and the subsequent ‘ clearances ’ or evictions of small tenants and sub-tenants to make way for much larger tenants to take up extensive sheep farming requiring very little labour . |
| 22 | The modern ‘ clean break ’ approach has its roots in the nineteenth century which with varying degrees of application has continued throughout the twentieth century ( Triseliotis , 1989 ) . |
| 23 | Firstly , it has its roots in commodity production and private ownership of property and , as such , forms the basis for the gradual development of capitalism , through increases in the scale of production . |
| 24 | It was a strong and diverse movement which originally had its roots in the hippie communes and the pop lyrics of the earlier Sixties , but had , by the end of the decade , encompassed so many political and social causes — particularly in America — that governments had a full-time spy network , through the likes of the FBI , the CIA and Scotland Yard 's Special Branch , keeping tabs on its leaders . |
| 25 | As has been recorded in this chapter , the principal anti-cancer drugs have been discovered either as a by-product of military research financed by government or by research in the pharmaceutical industry , much of which had its roots in research not primarily concerned with cancer . |
| 26 | The word holistic has its roots in the Greek holos which means ‘ whole ’ . |
| 27 | It had its roots in the areas of Altarnun and Menheniot , ( where young Jonathon was christened ) , but by this time the family was well established at the house still known as Trelawne , at Pelynt , near the Looe to Polperro road . |
| 28 | Compared to the freewheeling Rangers team under David Murray and Graeme Souness , critics have dismissed Celtic as a club that has taken its roots in poverty and charity to extremes . |
| 29 | The Dundee disease has its roots in a virus called money . |
| 30 | Much of conventional medicine has its roots in traditional medicine . |