Example sentences of "root [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This enormous hollow thermal spike also served as anchor and root for the hive . |
| 2 | The root of the East German church 's involvement lies in the agonising sense of guilt and self-accusation among many clergy during and after the Second World War for not having spoken out against the Nazis in time . |
| 3 | As with the hobbit-songs , behind all these there lies some story of a Sentence and a Great Escape , but an escape forever hindered by loving involvement with Middle-earth itself ; that is the root of the disagreement between Fangorn , Celeborn and Galadriel when the Ent half-voices his lament for the stocks and the stones . |
| 4 | Of course , lack of funding for systems and training , capital costs and development are at the root of the malaise over computerisation — and this is not a new problem for the NHS . |
| 5 | These important studies , made at night with great patience ( Charles-Dominique and Martin 1972 ) , show that at the very root of the primate evolution we have an extremely loose kind of relationship between the sexes . |
| 6 | He tried to get them to say whatever was on their minds and by following certain lines of thought tried to trace the root of the hysteria . |
| 7 | Birmingham were now in complete control and put the icing on the cake four minutes before the interval when on loan Karl Shutt put over a cross which Saville , completely unmarked , headed into the root of the net . |
| 8 | Indeed , words can be used which will often hide the very feelings which are at the root of the individual 's problems , and which represent the reality of their emotional lives . |
| 9 | ’ This seems to be the root of the quarrel between Modigliani and Beatrice , a battle of the egos , her determination to patronize and his fury at her presumption . |
| 10 | The other root of the idea of restraints is shared by medieval and modern constitutionalism and is peculiar to some extent to Western culture . |
| 11 | This struck at the root of the idea that nobody need be poor if they conscientiously engaged in economic activity . |
| 12 | Jacob saw something in Rachel that was very special , and he loved her in the true sense of the word ; the word ‘ love ’ in Hebrew , which is the original language of the Bible , comes from the root of the word meaning ‘ to give ’ , or ‘ to want to give ’ . |
| 13 | This is made up of two words : pan , meaning ‘ all ’ , and rhe , the root of the word ‘ to speak ’ . |
| 14 | Given that the Greek root of the word is gorgo ( devil ) , the Demogorgon was probably a manifestation of Satan . |
| 15 | Constituent analysis is used to identify and remove legitimate affixes from word tokens , and a table look-up procedure is employed to determine whether or not the root of the word is correctly spelled . |
| 16 | The root of the word is French fable , a term as broad and adaptable as Modern English " story " . |
| 17 | in so doing , he is not denying the value at the root of the accusation — namely , that prejudice is wrong . |
| 18 | This tense relationship between bourgeois careerism and communist party political commitment was at the root of the accusation that during this period Nizan had not entirely succeeded in severing his links with his bourgeois past . |
| 19 | I suggest that we take them not only seriously but literally , since they represent the very root of the relationship around which the Sonnets are structured . |
| 20 | It is thought that for a house in the high-rate stratum the assets are about four times as great as for one in the low-rate stratum , and that the stratum standard deviation is proportional to the square root of the stratum mean . |
| 21 | Although homoeopathy can work deeply into the organism , and can affect the deeper emotional , mental and spiritual levels , therapies more specifically aimed at developing the spiritual aspects of human beings may well be needed in addition as the root of the cancer problem often lies at this level . |
| 22 | The root of the problem is that there is no Non-Conformist equivalent of the church commissioners who , as well as contributing in large measure to Church of England clergy stipends , share with the state the responsibility for providing the Redundant Churches Fund . |
| 23 | But as a precaution it has suspended all its funds , until an investigation pinpoints the root of the problem . |
| 24 | Like Heidegger , he understands that the root of the problem is not that we are born black or Jewish or rich or blind , but that we are born at all and much of his best writing deals with that most fundamental of displacements . |
| 25 | As Josh Gifford also pointed out , one root of the problem is that the Mildmay course has , until now , been used only once a year . |
| 26 | The root of the problem is the Exchange Rate Mechanism . |
| 27 | Mr Patten suggests that the root of the problem is that science has weakened faith . |
| 28 | He believes quite simply that unemployment lies at the root of the problem . |
| 29 | Again the root of the problem was perceived to be the cultivators or pastoralists themselves , and that blame originated from land use by them under their own free will . |
| 30 | There are undoubtedly risks in encouraging children to redirect their hostility rather than getting to the root of the problem ( if aggression is frequent and/or intense ) or training the child in ways of coping with life that do n't involve aggression . |