Example sentences of "[vb mod] be traced back [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So much for a tradition whose origins may be traced back to early classical times ! |
| 2 | As the modern term for this genre the word fabliau can be traced back to scholarly writing of the seventeenth century . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | These stages , linked to the known planets , can be traced back through medieval literature to the ancients . |