Example sentences of "be [vb pp] back [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These conflicts , he contended , although highlighted in the differences between the Western Marxism of Lukács and the orthodoxy of Marxist-Leninism , could be traced back to the work of Marx himself . |
| 2 | The germ of this idea can be traced back to the sophist Antiphon ( c.480–411 BC ) , one of whose fragments contains the earliest Greek definition of time . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , a generalization is only acceptable to the reader when it can be traced back to the evidence collected . |
| 4 | Trade between Leith and Hull can be traced back to the beginning of the 19th Century when the Hull and Leith Shipping Company was formed . |
| 5 | Although first language acquisition is strictly related to the development of social identity , Watts ' conclusions that a certain set of perceptions is characteristic of Swiss-German readers ( p. 37 ) and that it " may be traced back to the kind of socialization into literacy " ( p. 39 ) are debatable mainly because the presented responses seem to be applicable to various categories of readers . |
| 6 | The origins of Cognitive–Behaviour therapy may be traced back to the philosopher Epictetus , who in the first century AD wrote ‘ People are disturbed not so much by events as by the views which they take of them ’ . |
| 7 | The origin of Islamic interest in science can be traced back to the closure by Justinian of the Neoplatonic Academy at Athens in 529 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Their heritage can be traced back to the time of the destruction of the Temple in 586 BC , when the Jews were taken captive into exile by the Babylonians . |
| 10 | Rug-making in the Balkans can be traced back to the time when the peninsula was under the control of the Turkish empire . |
| 11 | It can be traced back to the creation of a committee of New Socialists in 1989 , which held a Congress in 1990 and formed a small Socialist Party of the USSR . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The value of involving the Committee in the consultation mechanisms will be relayed back to the Park Manager . |
| 16 | In the former case these can be referred back to the Census Offices and in the latter to the London Research Centre . |
| 17 | The question of the place of objects in the formation of mental imagery may be referred back to the discussion of play . |
| 18 | The matter will be referred back to the borough council 's officers ' traffic group . |
| 19 | That said , the comments raised will be referred back to the project officers and in West Lothian , in particular , there is room for improvement . |
| 20 | This policy is back in the desk drawer at the moment , but it is clearly going to be placed back on the table , since the government is even considering charging thirty pound a night for N H S beds . |
| 21 | If you do not want to lose the patterns currently in the knitting machine , you can upload them to DesignaKnit and save them on to disk , ready to be downloaded back to the knitting machine when required . |
| 22 | Once the water has turned the generator , it will be discharged back into the river in exactly the same state and volume as abstracted . |
| 23 | If there is no appeal or if it is rejected , Mr Cojuangco is expected to be voted back to the board . |
| 24 | Although the area can then be cleaned , the puppy is likely to be attracted back to the site again unless you can remove the underlying odour . |
| 25 | Once the routine is established the dog is unlikely to vary its habits significantly as it will be attracted back to the scent . |
| 26 | Dexter knew that she preferred to wait and let the interviewee be sucked back into the vacuum of silence . |
| 27 | Every St Kildan family owned a number of cleits and they were scattered all over the island , many of them convenient to the bird cliffs because ‘ fresh ’ birds were much heavier than those that had dried out , and everything had to be carried back to the village eventually . |
| 28 | Once he actually fainted in the mud and had to be carried back to the house and revived with cold water . |
| 29 | Well they can be tipped back in the tin then ca n't they ? |
| 30 | If an old person is admitted to local authority residential care while still having a house to sell , some of the value of the property when sold may be claimed back by the authority in retrospective residential charges . |