Example sentences of "can be [verb] back to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the modern term for this genre the word fabliau can be traced back to scholarly writing of the seventeenth century . |
| 2 | Hospitals were to become a setting later in the decade for ‘ Doctor ’ films , ‘ Carry Ons ’ and such tepid dramas as Behind the Mask ( 1958 ) , but the genre can be traced back to White Corridors ( 1951 ) where , amidst the routine romantic squabbles , and an occasional lecture on the working of the NHS , two strong stories evolve : a researcher develops a drug that will kill infections resistant to penicillin and his lover secures herself a registrar 's post against nepotistic competition , by skilfully operating on a patient her rival has misdiagnosed . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Old bushes can be brought back to vigorous life by cutting them down to a foot from the ground at the end of winter . |
| 5 | Both areas will be far below optimum today but — and this is the important point — in the one case the land can be brought back to full production easily , whereas in the other case a long and costly process of fertility building will be necessary . |