Example sentences of "[verb] root [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Electronic and electrical knowledge was advancing apace however , eg the discovery that signal attenuation was proportional to square root of the signal frequency . |
| 2 | Too much , it seemed to me , was made of Tom 's grief : his courtship of Araminta was forward-looking , and deep grief needs roots in the past . |
| 3 | I suppose it could sound like a conscious courtesy — an agreeable gesture , but hardly one denoting that love has roots below the gum of consciousness . |
| 4 | In those areas where unemployment was endemic , the NUWM was able to establish roots in the community and to establish a legitimacy as a political movement which usually evaded the Communist Party . |
| 5 | Hence the third International Storytelling Festival which takes root at the South Bank Centre before moving on , in various forms , to Leicester , York , Bristol , Reading , Manchester , Barrow-in-Furness and Llantwit Major . |
| 6 | Since a firm intact skin is essential , both to exclude infections and prevent the contents from drying out , it is usual to leave roots on the soil surface for a few hours to harden their skins . |
| 7 | Does not take root like the badger . |
| 8 | Embracing the traumatic years of Vietnam , Kennedy , the Beatles and Watergate , Same Time , Next Year , by Bernard Slade , is a well-crafted comedy of social change and personal discovery that I predict will take root in the West End for long months to come . |
| 9 | Even now the post-war Arab myth that this was a titanic clash of cultures and religions , of high-tech rich against low-tech poor , is taking root across the region . |
| 10 | Africa was fe falling further and further behind but things are changing economic and political form is taking root across the continent and showing return . |
| 11 | This had the effect of statutory town planning taking root in an authority without having to persuade a council as to the merits ( and costs ) of scheme preparation . |
| 12 | According to Radio Times , TV Times has been hardest hit by the duopoly 's bust-up ( see chart ) , and it reckons Bauer , TV Quick 's publisher , will keep the price low and continue aggressive promotion until ‘ a significant proportion of readers have taken root in the brand ’ . |
| 13 | Since that time many independent Orc and Goblin tribes have taken root in the forests and mountains of that cold land . |
| 14 | Certain fossils have , for some inexplicable reason , taken root in the literature and palaeontologists ' subconscious and so been recorded everywhere . |
| 15 | The concept of personal salvation was not new to Rome since the cults of Isis and Dionysus had taken root in the city in the early first century . |
| 16 | But it was not until the fourteenth century , when Christian monotheism had really taken root among the people , that the people of Europe had evolved sufficiently to develop a widespread mystical tradition of their own . |
| 17 | These spores take root in the Night Goblin 's flesh and gradually start to change him . |
| 18 | The runners develop roots from the nodes of the stems . |