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Example sentences for "traced back"

  • Nevertheless the practice of this rite cannot be traced back to an earlier date than the reign of Edward III.

  • In East Kent there were four of these, namely, Canterbury, Eastry, Wye and Lymne, which can be traced back to the 9th century or earlier.

  • The barbarous custom of spiking heads on city gates, and on other prominent places, may be traced back to the days of Edward I.

  • Their first use may be traced back to the twelfth century.

  • The mace as a weapon may be traced back to a remote period, and was a staff about five feet in length with a metal head usually spiked.

  • The existence of two of those marked varieties above mentioned can be traced back 3000 years before the present time, or to the painting of pictures, preserved in the tombs or on the walls of buried temples in Egypt.

  • Then, again, the free cells which form the germinal cells can be traced back to a germinal epithelium, which also is part of the coelom.

  • The starting point of this proliferation can be traced back in all cases to little groups of embryonic tissue found below the epithelial lining of the oral chamber in Ammocoetes.

  • All the investing bones (Deckknochen) of the skull were of common origin, and could be traced back to integumentary skeletal plates, which in the ancestral fish formed a dense carapace.

  • The first, and for a long time isolated, examples of such professional abandonment of the world may be traced back to the 3rd century; but they had wider spread first in the post-Constantine Age.

  • All copies of this document can be traced back to a collection of imperial grants to the Romish church of the 11th century.

  • Since nature works for a determinate end under the direction of a higher agent, whatever is done by nature must needs be traced back to God, as to its first cause.

  • Truly all that is significant in human history may be traced back to ideas, but in like manner the ideas themselves can be traced back to material sources.

  • But although the major triad and even the dominant seventh chord could be traced back to the harmonics, the minor triad proved a different matter; after many experiments Rameau gave it up, leaving it unaccounted for.

  • The fact that its origin may be traced back to 1521 does not make it one whit more credible historically.

  • The very extravagance of his criticism of things theological may, in part, be traced back to the example of the Humanists.

  • They were a peaceful people; the warlike words in the different Aryan languages cannot be traced back to this original race.

  • His whole personality can be traced back to these simple elements.

  • A fact which speaks in favour of this much-ridiculed legend is that, at the time to which it can be traced back, well on in the seventeenth century, the practice of riding to the theatres had entirely fallen into disuse.

  • But for all that, his groups of feminine characters can frequently be traced back to an original type, and therefore, most likely, to a single model.

  • No developed tissues can be traced back to anything but a cell.

  • Pathological tissues arise from normal tissues; and there is no form of morbid growth which cannot in its elements be traced back to some model which had previously maintained an independent existence in the economy.

  • That man may be traced back on the earth long prior to the alleged Adamic era.

  • It is, however, far from credible that Dexippus, to whom these statements must be traced back, can have put the latter figure in this way.

  • The germs of this office may be traced back to the time of Trajan; we find them as standing officials in Achaia in the third century.

  • The large-hearted policy of Caesar the elder, to whom the outlines of this system must necessarily be traced back, here presents itself in all its grand extent.


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