Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] root [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
| 2 | [ And ] the mistake has its roots in the absurd assumption that the productivity of labour is independent of the consumption of the producer . |
| 3 | The Master Locksmiths Association has its roots in the early 1950s , when a group of craftsmen set up the Greater London Locksmiths Association . |
| 4 | Fundamentally , the system of local authority housing management has its roots in the early work of Octavia Hill . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | The first of these has its roots in the pupil-centred view of education . |
| 7 | The militarism and caste rigidity which has been the bane of Germany in Europe , has its roots in the Thirty Years War . |
| 8 | The third party which has its roots in the political movements that arose before August 1991 is the Party of Labour ( PT ) . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 ’ |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The practice has its roots in the symbolic importance of iron in German culture . |
| 13 | First , there is the equal opportunities strand , which has its roots in the social democratic ‘ race ’ interventions of the 1960s . |
| 14 | The word holistic has its roots in the Greek holos which means ‘ whole ’ . |
| 15 | The English law of negligence is based on the principle of fraternity , which in turn has its roots in the English common law . |
| 16 | The word ‘ testicle ’ has its roots in the Latin word for a ‘ witness ’ . |
| 17 | It , too , has its roots in the innate , primitive anger and anxiety of infancy , when food and comfort were withheld . |
| 18 | Envy is one of the strongest antidotes to love and has its roots in the innate and primitive anger and anxiety of infancy . |
| 19 | This practice has its roots in the basic organizational form of the work enterprise : the informal group , which is : |
| 20 | From an attitude that is greedy for possessions , and particularly from house price inflation , which has put the price of houses beyond the reach of many young couples starting out on their life together , contributing directly to homelessness , and which has its root in the increased demand for homes from family breakdown . |