Example sentences of "can [be] trace to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The origin of the theory of sexual selection can be traced to a peacock — or , rather , a peahen owned by Lady Tynte . |
| 2 | These acts can be traced to a plethora of practices which encourage sexually aggressive behaviour in men and boys , in a context in which there are few effective sanctions . |
| 3 | In his work , theoretically relying both on Freudianism and on variations of Parsonian functionalism , which sees the biological , egalitarian family as the culmination of the modernising process , he argues that the rise in illegitimacy can be traced to a change in the attitude towards sex of lower-class women , a change so great as to amount to a sexual revolution . |
| 4 | In every one of the cases to which your Lordships have been referred where such dicta appear , the source from which the evidence sought to be excluded had been obtained has been the defendant himself or ( in some of the search cases ) premises occupied by him ; and the dicta can be traced to a common ancestor in Lord Goddard 's statement in Kuruma v. The Queen [ 1955 ] A.C. 197 which I have already cited . |
| 5 | Indeed much of the weakness of recent educational research can be traced to a failure to take account of such factors . |
| 6 | These policies should be particularly aimed at adjusting the ratio of the nominal stock of money to the absolute price level since , following Modigliani ( 1944 ) , the origins of general excess supply can be traced to a ‘ misalignment ’ between the money stock and the levels of money wages and prices . |