Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The ultimate origin of our seven-day week and the restrictions for long imposed on Sunday activities can thus be traced back to the Babylonians . |
| 32 | A change in Eisenhower 's thinking on the USSR can perhaps be traced back to the visit by Churchill and Eden at the end of June 1954 . |
| 33 | The founding father of modern Mithraic studies , Franz Cumont , showed that Roman Mithraism was a continuation of the Iranian religion of Zarathustra and that its origins can be traced back to the Hindus , for in the Vedic hymns we encounter the name Mitra . |
| 34 | All information should be confidential in the sense that it can not be traced back to an individual , i.e. anonymity must be guaranteed to achieve frankness . |
| 35 | Modernization conceived as differentiation is of course the linchpin of Parsonian sociology , but can be traced back through the work of Weber and even of Lukács to the aesthetic writings of the mature Hegel ( Ká0tz 1982 ) . |
| 36 | Though the backgrounds of the successful ironmongers were varied , nearly all their families can be traced back in the neighbourhood to the sixteenth century , either through a direct line or through marriage . |
| 37 | Double-breasted to be fastened up to the collar , or left open , the reefer quickly ceased to be only navy blue and became a double-breasted tweed ‘ casual ’ coat , a direct ancestor o f the modern double-breasted suit . |
| 38 | This mucus capsule swells rapidly on contact with water , protecting the egg from abrasion and fungal infection , while the outermost layer enables the eggs to be fastened on to a plant . |
| 39 | The value of involving the Committee in the consultation mechanisms will be relayed back to the Park Manager . |
| 40 | A case involving a murder charge would be referred on to a Crown court . |
| 41 | In the former case these can be referred back to the Census Offices and in the latter to the London Research Centre . |
| 42 | The question of the place of objects in the formation of mental imagery may be referred back to the discussion of play . |
| 43 | The matter will be referred back to the borough council 's officers ' traffic group . |
| 44 | That said , the comments raised will be referred back to the project officers and in West Lothian , in particular , there is room for improvement . |
| 45 | Administrative assistant — the accuracy of the checking procedure , ie the number of errors undetected at this stage that could be referred back by the personnel section or the finance department . |
| 46 | He never intended that his shares should be given up for no payment . |
| 47 | It seemed to be given up to the birds and their morning hymns … |
| 48 | The Black Man of Saxony , playing grisly tunes so that the children would follow him to his terrible mountain lair , there to be given up to the Man of the Mountains . |
| 49 | Yeltsin announced at the meeting in Minsk on Dec. 30 that the first channel of Central Television would be given over to the Commonwealth , the second would be Russian , the third would be Moscow Television and the fourth would be an educational channel . |
| 50 | Once he had returned the white card , a client 's name , address and phone number were Processed into a lead , which would then be given out to a dealer . |
| 51 | JOHN AMBULANCE SPONSORED EVENT : A sponsorship form will be given out with every ticket and the St. John fundraisers expect all our members to take part . |
| 52 | The hand-out can be given out at the beginning of the learning session and used as a basis for teaching . |
| 53 | Sitting next to Alison 's fiance , Gordon Healis , Mr Manwaring said : ‘ The streets have got to be given back to the police and the decent people of this country . ’ |
| 54 | The moisture in the gel will be given off during the day and reabsorbed at night . |
| 55 | He had a vicious side to his nature and it apparently meant nothing to him that an old man was going to be roughed up during the raid . |
| 56 | The curved backpieces can be roughed out on the bandsaw , then finished on the router table , using a cutter with a bearing following a template . |
| 57 | Once the soil has been dug , it should be broken up with a fork , hoe , back of a rake , by hand , with a hand fork , or whatever you find most convenient , until it reaches the stage at which raking it backwards and forwards , and then crossways , reduces it to the fine tilth described . |
| 58 | Once this point has been reached there will be a rapid reduction in the number of non-reproductive males , and the large units will be broken up into a number of smaller ones , in part through takeovers and in part through fission of units containing followers . |
| 59 | Cumberland decided that Wales was the more likely objective , though he tried to cover himself by arranging for the road between Buxton and Derby to be broken up by the Derbyshire militia to slow Charles down should he take it instead . |
| 60 | Heavy fatty deposits can be broken up by the use of caustic cleaners sometimes specially formulated and described as drain cleaners . |