Example sentences of "that [modal v] be traced " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm surprised she did n't put in a gold locket or something , or a precious necklace that could be traced back to royalty , or the aristocracy , or the Sultan of Kashmir , or the Pope . ’ |
| 2 | The first reference to John that can be traced is in Muirkirk Session records in which there is an entry — ‘ On 19th September , 1680 , it was delated to the Session that John Browne in Priesthill … ( and others ) … did not attend public ordinances . ’ |
| 3 | She considers the idea , implicit in much feminist theory , of an authentic self which is said to be socially conditioned by patriarchal power , and argues that this idea owes much to a tradition in Western philosophy which dates back to the Aristotelian distinction between actions that are voluntary and actions which are coerced , a tradition that can be traced through Descartes to the present time . |
| 4 | In what follows my main purposes are : ( 1 ) to demonstrate the patterns of simplification that can be traced by comparing our inner-city data with that of the city-wide random sample ‘ doorstep ’ survey and the outer-city community studies ; and ( 2 ) to consider how far a theory of strong and weak ties can account for the maintenance of complex patterns and the development of simpler ones . |
| 5 | It is a fundamental concept that can be traced back to earliest times . |
| 6 | They also evince an obvious preference for Greek , as against Latin , as an object of study — a preference that can be traced back to Nietzsche 's schooldays , which produced a noteworthy essay on Sophocles ' Oedipus Rex ( 1864 ) . |
| 7 | The garrulity of women — one of St Jerome 's first objections — clearly underlies the crude joke of Du Con qui fu fait a la besche , noted above , and woman 's moral weakness is apparent in Cele qui se fist foutre sur la fosse de son mari , a version of a tale known as the Matron of Ephesus that can be traced as far back as to the classical author Petronius . |
| 8 | Historians who have reconstructed the context of his trip have generally concluded that , far from being a momentary aberration , the Montreal speech was the culmination of a policy that can be traced back to the early 1960s . |