Example sentences of "can [adv] be trace [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the decision can not be impugned on the facts , it undoubtedly confirms the difficulties which inventor employees face where the employer 's sales can only be traced to a single main purchaser of the patented product . |
| 2 | The economy of phrase and the abrupt transitions of a Horatian ode can generally be traced to the demands of an intricate governing metre . |
| 3 | The party 's decline can best be traced via the decline in the proportion of people who ‘ identify ’ with it — that is , think of themselves as being Labour supporters even if they occasionally vote for some other party . |
| 4 | It can possibly be traced to Taps in 1981 . |
| 5 | The wheel and associated machinery has long gone but remnants of the mill race can still be traced under the drive . |
| 6 | It has a rich and colourful history , which can still be traced in its fortifications , towers and old city gates . |
| 7 | The ‘ great wall of Swanage ’ as it might well be termed , can still be traced in considerable lengths , for instance alongside the lane running west from the Mill Pond , being the extension of Priest 's Way . |
| 8 | Their path westwards can still be traced by the chain of distinctive buildings they erected on their way across . |
| 9 | Contemporary techniques and styles can probably be traced to the Seljuks , a nomadic people from Central Asia who conquered the country in the 13th century . |
| 10 | This type of survey was first developed seriously in the United States , and its importance can similarly be traced to economic and social factors peculiar to that country at a particular stage in its history . |
| 11 | Faults can range from the merely inconvenient , when water spills out of sagging or blocked gutters on to unsuspecting people underneath , to the more serious problem of penetrating damp , where peeling decorations and damp patches inside the house can often be traced to a leaking gutter or downpipe outside . |
| 12 | An explanation for these contradictions can often be traced to the experimental conditions of the different studies . |
| 13 | That such an organism existed , or exists , has been the subject of much speculation by palaeobiologists and geochemists interested in the origin of the so-called banded iron formations ( BIFs ) ; these are sedimentary ores typically composed of alternating layers of silica- and iron-rich minerals that can often be traced as discrete units over hundreds of kilometres . |
| 14 | Effluent in rural areas is usually discharged visibly into watercourses and can often be traced without much difficulty to its source . |
| 15 | Any MacPaint format image , whether existing art or a scanned illustration , can now be traced at the click of a button . |
| 16 | The descent of property can sometimes be traced over several generations through the archives of the Court Baron , while individual names can be picked out from the lists of freeholders and customary tenants at the beginning of each meeting of the Court Leet . |
| 17 | Similar developments can sometimes be traced in less detail in less magnificent places , and must have taken place , on a more modest scale , almost everywhere . |
| 18 | If we enquire into the evolutionary background to this situation , it is immediately clear that the evolution of behaviour in both humans and primates rests on a common mammalian basis which can doubtless be traced to the greater adaptiveness , activity and independence of environmental conditions which the acquisition of warm-bloodedness provided . |