Example sentences of "harks back [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet despite a modulatory and harmonic palette occasionally redolent of mid-Classicism , his employment of formal procedures unmistakably harks back to the bygone era ( much the same could be said of Mozart 's church music ) . |
| 2 | The architecture shows the influence of the Italian colonisation ; the modern harbour harks back to the healthy export of livestock to the Gulf States ; and the large scale agricultural activity in the adjacent fertile valley now lies dormant with equipment and crops stolen and even the electricity pylons stripped of their cables . |
| 3 | The latter phrase harks back to the bare trust provision in section 6(3) . |
| 4 | The synthesised audible warning harks back to the 25 , but the computer controlled , MacPherson strut-based self-levelling air suspension is much more ‘ cutting edge ’ for Renault . |
| 5 | Purists are giving the thumbs up to the Everton away strip in salmon and navy which , according to Umbro , harks back to the 1880s for inspiration , while Man Utd 's basic blue and Ipswich Town 's nod towards the Thirties also appeal . |