Example sentences of "the roots [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are famous examples where whole ‘ gardens ’ seem to have been preserved , with the arms frozen , as it were , in motion , and even the roots at the base of the stems in place . |
| 2 | With the 8 mm clasts , slight chipping resulted after 4 hours , mainly of the roots of the incisors . |
| 3 | He 's a long way from the roots of the sport . |
| 4 | He remained there for what must have been an anxious day and a night while the elephant returned to and from a nearby stream with trunkfuls of water with which it was finally able to loosen the roots of the tree , push it over , then trample its victim just as his belated rescue-party arrived on the scene . |
| 5 | There was only just room to scrape through between the roots of the tree and the edge . |
| 6 | Outside the sun was catching the wet grass , gleaming and brilliant , and sharp pointed yellow crocuses spiked through beside the roots of the tree . |
| 7 | That was the day she saw the first crocuses around the roots of the tree . |
| 8 | Cider is poured over the roots of the tree and the wassailers circle the tree chanting : |
| 9 | Political ecologists-Greens-are radicals in the true sense of the word , going to the roots of the problems that beset our planet ; resource depletion , militarism , the exploitation of the Third World and so on . |
| 10 | Through educational critique the roots of the problems confronting people in their everyday lives can be faced and action can be founded then in educational critique . |
| 11 | This woman was able to come to terms with her aggressive pattern by ‘ unscrambling ’ it and beginning to understand the roots of the problem . |
| 12 | One of the roots of the problem was the sharp cutback of financial resources provided by the centre , but this needs to be seen alongside the emergence of strongly ideological politics at both central and local levels . |
| 13 | They want to replace ineffective reaction to the symptoms of trouble with positive action aimed at the roots of the problem . |
| 14 | The roots of the Willie Johnson drug scandal had been firmly planted . |
| 15 | The roots of the UK 's industrial decline go back a long way , certainly more than a century . |
| 16 | Philip worked a flat stone out of the earth by the roots of the beech tree . |
| 17 | The roots of the reeds contain naturally occurring bacteria which transform toxic elements contained in factory effluent , into benign substances . |
| 18 | The roots of the differences may be cultural , but if so , they are deeply embedded in the current disadvantaged position of non-white populations in Britain . |
| 19 | Furthermore , liking the bulbs for dividing is bound to disturb the roots of the roses , which is just about the worst thing you can do to them . |
| 20 | The roots of the law of confidence lie in equity and it is almost entirely case law . |
| 21 | Therein lie the roots of the difficulties faced by the unflappable reigning chairman , Alan Greenspan . |
| 22 | But the roots of the subject itself are in the realm of cognitive philosophy . |
| 23 | The short-term need is to deal with the roots of the doubt — in this case a matter of incompleteness of the picture of God — while the long-term need is to train a habit of faith which will close the door to this type of doubt in the future . |
| 24 | Slowly it sapped at the roots of the kind of justice which had been dependent on the judgement of God ; ordeal — in any case a last resort — grew rare ; though trial by battle continued as a privilege of the military classes ( in some places till the end of the middle ages ) , it too became somewhat of a curiosity . |
| 25 | Secrets of the Mangrove ( rep ) : Marine life among the roots of the mangrove tree . |
| 26 | Tin , as in so many Cornish tales of wealth and exploitation , lies at the roots of the Robartes family fortunes . |
| 27 | However boring they seem to become , they are the roots of the art . |
| 28 | Although some of these issues went beyond the main remit of his Inquiry , he drew the conclusion from this basic finding that only a national government-led initiative to deal with problems of policing , unemployment , poor housing , and racial disadvantage could get to the roots of the unrest . |
| 29 | The war of words between the two parties often reflected this sense of historical continuity , the roots of the divide frequently being traced back to the 1640s . |
| 30 | Then he said , not looking directly at Simon , but staring out onto the waters that lapped the roots of the trees : ‘ Is the Lion in the forest ? ’ |