Preposition: of

• nuts: Many manufacturers make statements on their products saying for example may contain traces of nuts.

• irony: As International Company Services observes without a trace of irony, " this can be extremely useful where extreme speed is required.

• cocaine: The pair also had traces of cocaine and cannabis in their bodies.

• bitterness: There was not a trace of bitterness in his eyes.

• accent: She spoke excellent French, with a trace of an accent which lent it charm.

• impurity: Before a new product can reach the customer it has to be exhaustively tested for tiny traces of impurities.

Object

• evolution: Its aims are to trace the evolution of urban society from the expansion of the twelfth century to the uncertainty of the fifteenth.

• ancestor: Family History Trying to trace an ancestor with a canal or river connection.

• emergence: In particular, it traces the emergence of a strategy of mobilization, which was closely associated with leftist trends within Bolshevism.

Converse of object

• remove: The lasers were brought in to remove the final traces of paint from the stones which have been standing there for 4,500 years.

• bear: The little flesh that remained on his face was patchily browned, and bore traces of white greasepaint and rouge.

• reveal: In the two texts presented later in the paper, they reveal strong traces of macro, meso, and micro interventions.

Adjective modifier

• residual: Provides information on sampling and analysis of residual traces of pesticides in both imported and domestic food.

• visible: Today in Moidart, there are visible traces all over the landscape from the period 1750 - 1850.

• slight: All along the western wall, we find slight traces of what appear to be the buried foundations of buildings and yards.

Modifies a noun

• mineral: Zinc is an essential trace mineral, important to help support the immune system.

• element: Contains essential amino acids and over 70 trace elements.