Example sentences of "at the roots " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spike compacted areas with a garden fork , hollow-tined fork or mechanical aerator to encourage vital air exchange at the roots . |
| 2 | Let us begin at the roots of this multifarious society . |
| 3 | The mixture of religious vocabulary with philosophical ‘ idea/ reality ’ , and sexual vocabulary ( ‘ desire/ spasm ’ ) hopelessly rearrange the elements discovered at the roots of religion . |
| 4 | But I wanted to feel my spine tickle and my pulses beat , and my hair stir gently at the roots with suspense as that voice cried out from somewhere near our drawing room curtains . |
| 5 | Mrs. Fanshawe touched her forehead where the dyed hair showed half an inch of white at the roots . |
| 6 | Already it was whispering at the roots of grass , inciting it to rise , breathing on sheltered primroses , preaching its false gospel of resurrection and renewal , while underneath , the rot continued , the trampled snail returned to clay and beauty drew sustenance from a grave . |
| 7 | Havelock Ellis said , ‘ A worm gnaws periodically at the roots of women 's life . ’ |
| 8 | Flowers simply shrivel up , the combined effect of dryness at the roots and attacks by tiny , shiny black pollen beetles , escapees from oil seed rape fields . |
| 9 | Tin , as in so many Cornish tales of wealth and exploitation , lies at the roots of the Robartes family fortunes . |
| 10 | I slide the rod-rest slowly into the sand , making sure it is positioned to that I can sit comfortably with the butt of the rod in my right hand and the tip pointing at the roots . |
| 11 | Be careful not to use too much serum as it 's very rich and can clog the hair at the roots and make it lank . |
| 12 | To create this classic shape , always use a round brush , lifting the hair at the roots and keeping the tension of the brush even , turning the ends of the hair under . |
| 13 | It may seem that if we succeed in adapting our values to such disturbances instead of losing them altogether , it is because we still retain some vestige of a Christian and liberal moral tradition a memory of ‘ Do unto others … ’ at the roots of social habit , which saves us from the collapse into competing egoisms into which deepening conflicts are perpetually driving us . |
| 14 | To ring the changes , hair was sprayed at the roots and lightly backcombed for an alternative look . |
| 15 | Stroke the Luminescent Mousse quickly through your hair and comb through , making sure that it is well distributed at the roots . |
| 16 | Left : To create extra body and volume on short hair , a combination of scrunch drying and strong hold mousse at the roots is the key . |
| 17 | For volume , simply dry your hair upside down and grab handfuls at the roots , scrunching as you dry . |
| 18 | At the crown , small rollers were used at the roots for smaller curls and larger ones towards the ends for more body |
| 19 | Short hair stands out when gelled at the roots . |
| 20 | She came to the smartgun mounting , and ripped the multi-barrelled weapon out at the roots . |
| 21 | From the start , feminists had little difficulty uncovering the sexist assumptions lying at the roots of most of the established trees of knowledge . |
| 22 | This failure may be gnawing at the roots of Japan 's post-war success . |
| 23 | At girls ' puberty rituals the novice , folded in a blanket , is gently placed at the roots of a slender mudyi sapling . |
| 24 | Slowly it sapped at the roots of the kind of justice which had been dependent on the judgement of God ; ordeal — in any case a last resort — grew rare ; though trial by battle continued as a privilege of the military classes ( in some places till the end of the middle ages ) , it too became somewhat of a curiosity . |
| 25 | However , because the moral phenomena which lay at the roots of social solidarity could not directly be measured , Durkheim identified law as an external and visible index of changes in invisible moral phenomena . |
| 26 | To complete the process , Body Building Scalp Finish adds ‘ lift ’ to limp hair at the roots , tones the scalp and controls oil secretion . |
| 27 | All three features are designed to convey that Henry is not just looking at the roots but reflecting on them and struggling to think what it is they bring to mind . |
| 28 | The herb beds should be lightly dug over with a fork , weeded if necessary , and the invasive plants chopped back at the roots . |
| 29 | But then it is precisely because all significant ideologies are indeed this deep and elaborated that the concept can not be abstracted as some kind of ‘ informing spirit ’ , at the roots of all cultural production . |
| 30 | She was tanned and her hair was fairer at the roots . |