Example sentences of "can be traced [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only those ideas which can be traced through many different formulations on depression in the seventy years since Freud 's book was published are touched upon here . |
| 2 | Desmond Morris claims that his biomorphs " evolve " in his mind , and that their evolution can be traced through successive paintings . |
| 3 | Amendments , etc. , can be traced through two Current Law Statute Citators , one for 1947–1971 , and one for 1971 onwards . |
| 4 | Even more remarkable , however , is the fact that individual bands can be traced over vast areas . |
| 5 | It reiterates an orthodoxy whose source can be traced to one specific article ( Lemann , 1986 ) . |
| 6 | The schizophrenic 's and schizotypal individual 's hypersensitivity , which many clinicians have emphasised , can be traced to weak modulation of stimuli that impinge upon the mind , leading to an undue awareness of events — both internal and external — less available to others . |
| 7 | This can be traced to two , radically different , political forces . |
| 8 | In each case the context-dependency can be traced to specific deictic expressions or indexicals . |
| 9 | If a reductive programme of this kind is possible , we may be tempted to provide a rational reconstruction of our knowledge which shows how the credibility of derived claims can be traced to that of the foundation . |
| 10 | The development of paper money can be traced to economic and social developments in Western Europe during the 1600s . |
| 11 | The origins of the battle , however , can be traced to 29 July 1914 , before the outbreak of war , when the British Fleet was prudently dispatched by Winston Churchill , First Lord of the Admiralty , to its war station at Scapa Flow , off the northeastern tip of Scotland . |
| 12 | Many of the goats described in the 30 or so scientific studies that have since been published on the phenomenon ( the earliest in 1904 ) can be traced to those bred and cared for by Mayberry . |
| 13 | And since each book here can be traced to those whose decision it was to discard , it is important to emphasise that no personal blame is implied , and that the responsibility for what occurred is not his necessarily , but of those who employed him . |
| 14 | The renewed development of the market in the 1980s can be traced to three principal factors . |
| 15 | The need to separate the functions of chairman and chief executive has been a raging debate in City of London parlours for the past couple or years , and companies at which the two roles are combined in one person have been under enormous pressure to accept a separation of powers : now the same debate could take off across the Atlantic as Compaq Computer Corp 's ( non-executive ) chairman Ben Rosen tells the House Telecommunications and Finance Subcommittee that the troubles that have beset some of America 's largest companies can be traced to cozy relationships between their boards and their chief executives — he declares that the boards of most US companies are chaired by the company 's chief executive , who picks the board members and controls the agenda — ‘ With an appropriate form of corporate governance , I fully believe that the current problems of IBM , Digital Equipment , Westinghouse and other major American corporations could have been addressed and probably solved far earlier with much reduced ill effects , ’ Rosen told the legislators , adding that a company 's chairman should be a ‘ truly outside independent director , ’ not the chief executive or a former chief executive , and that all board members , with the exception of the chief executive , should also be outsiders , who should get their directors ' fees in the form of shares or options . |
| 16 | It is true that the increasing scale of certain enterprises in post war Britain can be traced to speculative financial considerations ( primarily among those which Channon identifies as ‘ acquisitive diversifiers ’ ) , and that many such enterprises have failed to exploit economies of scale and have shown a poor record even in terms of profitability . |
| 17 | I believe that the paradoxes of the mind-body relationship can be traced to this logical structure and their solution to be found in the light of this interpretation . |
| 18 | Although Catholics are not cited in the Smolensk Archive with reference to the taking of church valuables , their activity can be traced from other sources . |
| 19 | They can be traced from one frame to another : |
| 20 | The study of such curves , originating perhaps in the Ancient Greek spiral , can be traced in modern times from the work of Giuseppe Peano in 1890 and Helge von Koch in 1904 to Mandelbrot 's book , Fractals : Form , Chance and Dimension ( 1977 ) . |
| 21 | At Woodhead ( Great Casterton ) all held by lease or at will , and again only seven out of twenty-six can be traced in 1522 ; the two non-resident freeholders were disregarded . |
| 22 | But the seeds of the artist 's powerful progress in the great decade from 1954 can be traced in other and lesser works throughout the exhibition . |
| 23 | The attitudes set in late Victorian times can be traced in British industry right through into our period . |