Example sentences of "can [be] [verb] back through " in BNC.
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| 1 | These stages , linked to the known planets , can be traced back through medieval literature to the ancients . |
| 2 | Using a principle of recession , Pynchon even suggests that historical plotting can be traced back through its superficial manifestations to the grouping of raw matter or to the genetic code itself ! |
| 3 | It is a church whose authority lies in its age and its preservation of a form of worship which can be traced back through two millennia . |
| 4 | The recognition that ideas are not the pure result of cognition but are affected by the human context of cognition , can be traced back through philosophy — Larrain goes back to the fifteenth century to Machiavelli ( Larrain 1979 : 17 ) . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |