Example sentences of "can be trace " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suggest that the effect can be traced , experimentally , to a resonance effect known in physics as cyclotron resonance . |
| 2 | It can be traced directly back to the anti-Dreyfusard cause of the late nineteenth century . |
| 3 | The Pythons ' inspiration ( of the films in particular ) can be traced back , via the immediate influence of the Goon Show , along a line leading directly to Lewis Carroll and the whole English tradition of nonsense , parody and the mock-epic . |
| 4 | Banking in particular , seems particularly susceptible to failures in foreign markets caused by reactive pressures — much of the Third World debt problems can be traced to banks looking for easy foreign expansion routes when faced by lack of growth in domestic markets . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In Dr Clarke 's view , the origins can be traced back to 1924 , when Keynes published an article advocating ‘ a drastic remedy ’ for unemployment . |
| 7 | Surprisingly , the turning point that saw a struggling business transformed into a trendsetting group that has become a household name can be traced back to a Dutch merchant banker , who persuaded Conran to widen his horizons . |
| 8 | But colonialism , the tensions caused by a feudal economy 's reaction to capitalism and finally the effects of capitalism itself have all been imposed on a social structure which can be traced much further back . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The downfall of Gen Noriega can be traced to the brutal killing of the opposition leader , Hugo Spadafora , found beheaded in 1985 . |
| 11 | I guess we 'll never know looking back on it , various things can be traced to David and other things to Tony . |
| 12 | Its roots can be traced to the heady sounds of El Rocco ; but ‘ Beyond El Rocco ’ demonstrates that much of the inspiration of Australian jazz now comes from Australians themselves . |
| 13 | Much of their interest can be traced to the persistence of Friedrich Christians , the chairman of the supervisory board of the Deutsche Bank . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Fine Gael is anything but left-wing : its roots can be traced back to General Duffy and the Blueshirts who sent a division of soldiers from Ireland to fight for Franco in the Spanish Civil War . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | I also suggest that much of the bewilderment felt by teachers about the nature of the subject that they were teaching can be traced to both Brian Way 's and Dorothy Heathcote 's disclaimer that drama could be important in itself . |
| 18 | Nonetheless an evolutionary approach to human social life permits a broad perspective in which the emergence of the social psychological domain from the biological can be traced . |
| 19 | The modern Letter of Credit ( or Documentary Credit as it is often called ) which is used in international trade can be traced back , at least in part , to the Travellers Letter of Credit . |
| 20 | Belief in the power of such plants can be traced back to the time of the Druids ; it was certainly part of the belief system of the Celtic peoples , and although it may not be voiced so explicitly as it once was , yet the custom of planting and preserving this special tree is still continued by some people . |
| 21 | Undoubtedly , rapid population expansion in Latin America can be traced , in part , to machismo . |
| 22 | Leapor 's conflicting responses to this prospect can be traced in her poetry . |
| 23 | The Donnington site can be traced back to at least 1291 , when it was one of the two mills of the Manor of Broadwell . |
| 24 | Their ancestry can be traced in the Reading area as far back as 1240 . |
| 25 | The Industrial Novel contributed a distinctive strain to English fiction which persists into the modern period — it can be traced in the work of Lawrence and Forster , for instance . |
| 26 | These stages , linked to the known planets , can be traced back through medieval literature to the ancients . |
| 27 | On active citizenship Labour has had little to say , although Labour spokespersons haves given support to the general idea of civic responsibility and the encouragement of a sense of community , which can be traced back to the nineteenth century traditions of civic virtue and community solidarity which are strong in the Labour party . |
| 28 | As the survey above suggests , some of the developments in recent British writing can be traced not only generally , but quite specifically , each major area of modernist initiative carried forward through intermediary writers in the 1930s into particular phases of continuing experiment . |
| 29 | Using a principle of recession , Pynchon even suggests that historical plotting can be traced back through its superficial manifestations to the grouping of raw matter or to the genetic code itself ! |
| 30 | But increasingly , doubts , some of which can be traced back to a general report on the supply of professional services by the Monopolies Commission in 1970 , were raised about whether restraints on competition in the professions are necessarily beneficial . |