Example sentences of "to go back to the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She asked us to go back to the golden age of Callaghan . |
| 2 | The Freudian realistic view it seems to me , could n't allow you to draw either conclusion , you could n't , neither conclude , that things were better in the past and therefore we ou ought to go back to the golden age , nor , could you conclude that things will ever be any better in the future . |
| 3 | Soon there will be nothing left to know and I shall have to go back to the Annual Assessment . |
| 4 | ( In order to analyse this , we need to go back to the general model with . ) |
| 5 | A magnificent bookplate of 1899 with , on the male side ( left in picture ) , twelve quarterings , some of which appear to go back to the 13th century . |
| 6 | We have to go back to the first quarter of 1986 to see such a low figure for construction output per person in the past decade . |
| 7 | If you do n't do it , it 'll be two possibly threeish because you 're not too sure , you 've got to go back to the second appointment and he might do it but then again he may not . |
| 8 | The privatization bill will probably have to go back to the upper house , whatever happens in the Commons . |
| 9 | I mean effectively , I always wanted to go back to the middle ages er , with , with the history books of English society . |
| 10 | If you have genuine difficulty in keeping to the diet in this book or any other diet , your best bet is to go back to the calorie-counting method , supervised by a diet club , dietitian , or doctor . |
| 11 | Burton said that he had promised to go back to the Old Vic for £45 a week to do Hamlet , and he was sticking to it . |
| 12 | But Tory schools minister Michael Fallon , MP for Darlington hit back : ‘ No one wants to go back to the old days of councillors running hospitals , of Nupe deciding whether or not your operations should be carried out . ’ |
| 13 | But to go back to the old ways ‘ would be a colossal mistake , ’ he declared . |
| 14 | Nevertheless you also feel pressure on you to go back to the old ways . |
| 15 | After the luxury of labour-saving devices it is just too tedious to go back to the old ways . |
| 16 | We need to go back to the old ways : I mean , think of it , it was in the Andes that corn was improved , that the potato was developed . |
| 17 | ‘ I would love to go back to the old house … |
| 18 | Let's go back and tell Faye to go back to the nursing agency with a more open mind . ’ |
| 19 | I do not want to go back to the foreign environment of Tbilisi , ’ he said . |
| 20 | It may be possible , while accepting the underlying general principle , to argue against its applicability to nuclear weapons : for instance , by saying that a nuclear bomb is not a chemical weapon as such , the poison gas being a mere incidental by-product ; or to go back to the fundamental prohibition of ‘ weapons that cause unnecessary suffering ’ and argue that the suffering caused by a nuclear weapon is not disproportionate to its military effectiveness . |
| 21 | It 's hardly worth drawing the cheques in certain cases and the capital programme , could n't see it actually when I looked for it first time , had to go back to the pink sheet and found the noughts , now we 're not as generous as we 'd like to be , but at least we try . |
| 22 | Next evening , bruised and with minor cuts and a cracked arm , I forced myself to go back to the three bars though , by then , very nervous . |
| 23 | When they reach an obstacle , such as the sharks , they have to go back to the previous question . |
| 24 | the reader has to go back to the previous stretch of discourse to establish what This refers to . |
| 25 | ‘ Could n't we have a second chair ? ’ ventured John Gould , inciting the first major row : ‘ We 'll have to re-think the whole thing ’ says James ‘ we 'll have to go back to the very beginning and re-block it ! ’ |
| 26 | Er if you want to go back to the same people . |
| 27 | She hated having to scan it in reverse rather than just rewind to go back to the same sequence the girl had been watching when she came in but Jezrael had n't thought to check the counter . |
| 28 | This determines the level of the water in the cistern so it needs to go back to the same notch |
| 29 | To identify classes you have to go back to the intentional properties of individuals — to the judgments , desires and aspirations which are essential to explaining what they then do in the class struggle . |