Example sentences of "[adj] roots [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These groups had deep historical roots in the opening months of the First World War , which had seen the renewal of the sources of criticism of the radical right against the Liberal government . |
| 2 | The actuarial profession has its historical roots in the insurance industry and insurance companies still employ nearly 60% of the Institute 's Fellows . |
| 3 | They quickly learned how to use their snouts to lever edible roots from the ground , overturn grass tussocks for worms and locate resin ( pigs have a sweet tooth ) . |
| 4 | One of the richest and most ancient human civilisations lies today at the cultural roots of the world 's most economically vibrant region . |
| 5 | For modern secular Western man , severed from his cultural roots by the processes of industrialisation and secularisation , Marxism makes a real appeal . |
| 6 | While violence on the field of play may generate tension and even trigger violence , one must probe a little deeper to discover the underlying social roots of the problem . |
| 7 | The outer concourse in glass and iron had its architectural roots in the exhibition halls of the nineteenth century . |
| 8 | Introducing the soul boy concept of pure roots into the arena of disco kitsch is perverse , although understandable , given the enduring belief in dance music 's spiritual , cathartic purpose . |
| 9 | Briefly , empowerment education involves people in group efforts to identify their own problems , critically to analyze the cultural and socioeconomic roots of the problems , and to develop strategies to effect positive changes in their lives and in their communities . |
| 10 | They have paid attention to the academic , moral and philosophical roots of the movement . |
| 11 | He does not see the different plants like an agriculturalist , nor the medicinal roots like a physician , but everything that he sees with his material eyes he secretly contemplates in his mind through spiritual vision . |
| 12 | The point Herrnstein 's ‘ anti-hereditarians ’ are trying to make deals , not with the obvious genetic roots of an individual 's intelligence , but , first , the exact meaning of this thing we call ‘ intelligence ’ and , secondly , the impossibility of separating and then quantifying the amount of intelligence which is inherited and the amount which is subject to change . |
| 13 | Kava is made of the ground-up roots of the kava bush . |
| 14 | Soft cuttings may root after only a few weeks , so pot individual cuttings as soon as you see new young leaves or white roots at the base of containers . |
| 15 | During 1935 , as a result of intelligence information , they came to the conclusion that Mosley received most of his finance from Mussolini and that the national roots of the movement were weak and kept alive by artificial means . |
| 16 | Some may even be clinging to the arching aerial roots of the mangroves or clambering up the trunks . |
| 17 | Fears of communism had deep roots in the past ( p.6 ) and they had increased as the Cold War developed after 1945 . |
| 18 | It was a policy with deep roots in the history of the monastic community at Canterbury , and to understand it we must first examine the development of this community , and then the ideal which it considered its chief adornment and obligation . |
| 19 | It is merely to affirm that in the end if education is to grow deep roots in the working-class , they will be nourished more by what people learn than how they learn ’ . |
| 20 | Jiang Zemin was supportive of the reform line , but was regarded as a political lightweight lacking deep roots in the party . |
| 21 | It was in many ways a mood rather than a movement , a transient phenomenon with shallow roots in the constituencies , and particularly weak in local government . |
| 22 | For the first time she found herself wondering whether he had resented not only Hugo but all the family , and whether that subsequent betrayal could have had long roots in the soil of an old envy . |
| 23 | There are two important roots to the idea of restraints . |
| 24 | This method also prevents selection of the incorrect morphemic roots of the word ( preached is found as a derivative of preach rather than ache ) since the selection of the correct root form can be made with certainty at development time with the aid of dictionaries . |
| 25 | In fact the different Greek roots for the Devil in the Septuagint — diabolos/apollyon — are of very little importance , for what emerges is the concept of the Devil as the supreme Evil One , the Dark Power . |
| 26 | Throughout the nineteenth century there were faint waves of Adventism , deriving from the Judaic roots at the heart of the Christian faith . |
| 27 | The ideological roots of the concept also need to be explored , for it is one half of an ideology , an internalized consciousness , which doubly sanctions prejudice . |
| 28 | And we have explored its ideological roots through an examination of the political philosophy of Michael Oakeshott . |
| 29 | He heard her whisking and wailing on her way , and he bent down and laid the cock-feather on the stone , and behold with a heavy groaning and grinding the huge stone swung up in the air and down in the earth , as though on a pivot or balance , disturbing waves of soil and heather like thick sea-water , and showing a dark , dank passage under the heather-roots and the knotty roots of the gorse . |
| 30 | However , given the previous discussion of the patriarchal roots of the ideology of suburbia , does it matter that poor women without husbands and with children will find themselves increasingly dependent on flats in decaying inner-city areas rather than houses in the leafy suburbs ? |