Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] roots in the " in BNC.
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1 | The militarism and caste rigidity which has been the bane of Germany in Europe , has its roots in the Thirty Years War . |
2 | The modern ‘ clean break ’ approach has its roots in the nineteenth century which with varying degrees of application has continued throughout the twentieth century ( Triseliotis , 1989 ) . |
3 | The word holistic has its roots in the Greek holos which means ‘ whole ’ . |
4 | [ And ] the mistake has its roots in the absurd assumption that the productivity of labour is independent of the consumption of the producer . |
5 | The English law of negligence is based on the principle of fraternity , which in turn has its roots in the English common law . |
6 | It , too , has its roots in the innate , primitive anger and anxiety of infancy , when food and comfort were withheld . |
7 | Envy is one of the strongest antidotes to love and has its roots in the innate and primitive anger and anxiety of infancy . |
8 | The word ‘ testicle ’ has its roots in the Latin word for a ‘ witness ’ . |
9 | The third party which has its roots in the political movements that arose before August 1991 is the Party of Labour ( PT ) . |
10 | This practice has its roots in the basic organizational form of the work enterprise : the informal group , which is : |
11 | Empowerment , which has its roots in the US , has taken on new significance recently as American corporations try to find a way to compete more effectively with the Japanese . |
12 | The Master Locksmiths Association has its roots in the early 1950s , when a group of craftsmen set up the Greater London Locksmiths Association . |
13 | The practice has its roots in the symbolic importance of iron in German culture . |
14 | The first of these has its roots in the pupil-centred view of education . |
15 | The ‘ society-as-parent ’ school perhaps falls into a tradition of paternalistic state intervention in the cause of social welfare , which has its roots in the nineteenth century ; a tradition in which the values of the dominant class have been imposed on the poor for their own good , and in which the children of the poor have been removed to make a ‘ fresh start ’ in what were adjudged more favourable circumstances than those of their origins . |
16 | Fundamentally , the system of local authority housing management has its roots in the early work of Octavia Hill . |
17 | First , there is the equal opportunities strand , which has its roots in the social democratic ‘ race ’ interventions of the 1960s . |
18 | ‘ Bad ’ which has its roots in the Black English of the US jazz scene in 1928 is now in the Oxford English Dictionary meaning ‘ very good ’ . |
19 | Idealism has its roots in the writings of the eighteenth-century philosopher Immanuel Kant , who saw in universal adherence to the rule of law the possibility of global peace . |
20 | ‘ The cult of the beautiful , it seems to me , has its roots in the ancient fetishistic worship at the shrines of such earth mothers as Dea ’ |
21 | It has its roots in the study of the grammar of stories , or story grammar , as this approach is often known . |
22 | It has its roots in the work of Jackson , Yarnit and Ashcroft in Vauxhall , Liverpool in the early 1970's . |
23 | It has its roots in the communities of Croydon . |
24 | BIG COUNTRY 'S rebirth as a major force in rock has its roots in the band 's darkest hour . |
25 | The difficulty of probing questions like those above with the help of community-member informants provides one incentive for using another approach : Conversation Analysis ( CA ) , which has its roots in the tradition of sociology known as ethnomethodology . |
26 | This doctrine has its roots in the equitable nature of the duty of confidence but can now be regarded as covering both equitable and contractual obligations of confidence ( see Initial Services Ltd v Putterill ) . |
27 | The work also voiced taboos and silenced areas in an attempt to make visible shared and common experiences , revealing their roots in the social and cultural rather than the personal . |
28 | It is not an attitude that would carry much weight in other educational circles , but it is easy to see its roots in the traditions of apprenticeship to a trade . |
29 | The Argentines are still ethnically the same , the population still predominantly Italian , most of them havin' their roots in the south of Italy and in Sicily . |
30 | A later commentator says that the plan " had been cherished by them for years " and it could very well have its roots in the Caledonian Press experiment , which had ended a mere eight years earlier . |