Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] be trace " in BNC.
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| 1 | Celtic self-awareness may be traced in the popular rebellions of the fifth century , especially in Armorica ( Zosim. 6.5.3 ) . |
| 2 | The origins of Cognitive–Behaviour therapy may be traced back to the philosopher Epictetus , who in the first century AD wrote ‘ People are disturbed not so much by events as by the views which they take of them ’ . |
| 3 | With my electoral role number marked on the counterfoil , through a sorting process my vote and anyone else 's vote could be traced to who voted for who . |
| 4 | Two major aims of the research will be to trace the rise of Conservatism in the Jewish communities of suburban London before the creation of the GLC , and to investigate the causes of the rift between the community and the Labour Party in London in the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 5 | Such reasoning can be traced down to the present day , although there are variations on the theme . |
| 6 | I suggest that the effect can be traced , experimentally , to a resonance effect known in physics as cyclotron resonance . |
| 7 | Indeed much of the weakness of recent educational research can be traced to a failure to take account of such factors . |
| 8 | Each branch of the fungus must be traced from its source to the growing tip , and finishes should be opened up to reveal timber 1/2m ( 1–1/2ft ) beyond the affected material . |
| 9 | And , er , so the , so Freud 's theory does n't necessarily require that , that any source of anxiety should be traced to today 's events , what it what it does say is that very often today 's events shape the manifest , and sometimes the latent , content of the dream quite a lot . |
| 10 | The distribution of fuel in the various tanks and the fuel source of each individual engine must be traced . |
| 11 | Its origin can be traced back to the Sumerians and Babylonians . |
| 12 | The genesis of this right to compensation can be traced to the protracted debate which took place within the Standard Advisory Committee on Patents in the wake of the Department of Trade 's publication in 1975 of a White Paper on the future of patent law . |
| 13 | This view of capitalist management can be traced back to Marx 's conception of the individual capitalist as the mere ‘ personification of capital ’ . |
| 14 | The 1974 reorganisation of the NHS was guided by similar views and several themes of the new public management can be traced back to the Fulton Report on the Civil Service published in 1968 . |
| 15 | Consider , though , a case in which a given enterprise is unwilling to invest because of low expected profitability , yet this low prospective profitability can be traced neither to faulty managerial calculations , nor to foreign competition of a kind justifying protection , nor to the failure of an identified ‘ need ’ for the enterprise 's product to register as monetary demand , nor to internal competition from other enterprises operating a more intensive exploitation of labour . |
| 16 | This instrument was known to Ptolemy in the second century AD , and — the underlying mathematical theory of stereographic projection can be traced back at least to Ptolemy 's great predecessor Hipparchus ( second century BC ) . |
| 17 | The germ of several measures whereby Britain ( and other states ) might receive assistance can be traced back to at least the autumn of 1938 . |
| 18 | The authoritarian philosophy can be traced back to sixteenth-century England , where strict controls were imposed on the publication of what were regarded by the king and his advisers as seditious pamphlets and journals . |
| 19 | The history of the mill can be traced back to 1710 but quite possibly there may have been an older mill on the same site . |
| 20 | It is now recognised by staff that much of the apprehension and anxiety can be traced back to lack of communication and Wilson-Barnett ( 1988 ) discusses the development of different approaches to rectify the situation , drawing distinctions between information-giving , patient teaching or education , and counselling . |
| 21 | Some seem to have thought that if a case could be traced to a feud , it was false . |
| 22 | England 's failure may be traced to irresolution at the society 's centre , the Queen herself . |
| 23 | The fourth cause of the interest in citizenship may be traced to the nervousness in some Conservative quarters about political education and the complementary belief that the schools were failing to produce ‘ good citizens ’ . |
| 24 | As the modern term for this genre the word fabliau can be traced back to scholarly writing of the seventeenth century . |
| 25 | In some cases aggression can be traced back to incidents which happened in the puppy 's past . |
| 26 | The Donnington site can be traced back to at least 1291 , when it was one of the two mills of the Manor of Broadwell . |
| 27 | In suggesting ways in which the shifting structures of repetition and difference can be traced , what it has attempted to do is to open up some new contexts , both theoretical and institutional , in which texts and genres can be thought , and to reopen some old points of difficulty which still serve as sticking-points against the slide into accommodation . |
| 28 | But a closer examination has convinced me that , alien though Hugh 's thought was to the main stream of Anselm 's , an influence of some importance can be traced . |
| 29 | I have stressed the view that Dicey 's importance can be traced to his role both in codifying certain ideas and in adapting the analytical method to public law . |
| 30 | This process can be traced back until we arrive at a single cell which was formed at the moment of conception by the fusion of two parental germ cells , i.e. one egg and one sperm cell . |