Example sentences of "goes [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | We 'd want a good description to make sure the right property goes back to the right owner . |
| 32 | When the subordinate process terminates , control goes back to the calling processes . |
| 33 | In the clinical literature , the word ‘ natural ’ is left undefined ( the medical description of this kind of shock goes back to the nineteenth-century discovery of ‘ hysteria ’ and its symptoms in women ) . |
| 34 | When one goes back to the real time in which we live , however , there will still appear to be singularities . |
| 35 | The story goes back to the major earthquake , magnitude 7 on the Richter scale , which rocked Greece in February 1981 . |
| 36 | The use of inspectors as a form of central supervision goes back to the Poor Law reform of 1834 . |
| 37 | His inspiration goes back to the early idea of Charles Frank , plus the fact that muon catalysed fusion was observed in 1956 by accident and the interest has grown in fits and starts ever since . |
| 38 | The work of cataloguing goes back to the early years of Italian unification in the late nineteenth century when the first photographs were taken of archaeological sites and of celebrated pictures and monuments . |
| 39 | And that goes back to the early days of silage . |
| 40 | The power of the pope to depose an unsatisfactory emperor goes back to the Dictatus Pape of Gregory VII — a power which Innocent preferred to see as a right to inspect , approve and crown , but there is little doubt that it was important in the papal moral armoury . |
| 41 | The oldest tradition , which goes back to the contemporary historian John Foxe , claims that the queen and her Protestant councillors had intended to introduce a settlement based on the 1552 Prayer Book , but were later forced to make some concessions in the Catholic direction because of the implacable opposition of the bishops and some of the lay peers in the House of Lords . |
| 42 | This now goes back to the ordinary grants money . |
| 43 | The origin of the synagogue goes back to the Babylonian period . |
| 44 | and then , once you 've claimed , it goes back to the original figure . |
| 45 | This ice cream boasts American parentage , though its ancestry goes back to the exotic sherbets which were made in the Arab kingdoms of Granada and Cordoba in Spain . |
| 46 | Do you think this er really goes back to the fundamental issue which the Good Committee did n't really address which was the issue of ownership of the pension funds and assets and that whilst pensioners and to an extent employers these days regard the pension fund as deferred pay and pensions payments as deferred pay , the ownership of those funds is still left erm neither still er an argument about wh wh who owns the funds and er a lot of this follows on from that . |
| 47 | Doubling in Dostoevsky , which goes back to the very beginning , to Mr Devushkin living and not living in the kitchen , which has its post-Siberian developments in the underground man 's now-you-see-me-now-you-don't ‘ flashing ’ of his consciousness , in Raskolnikov 's and Svidrigailov 's different ways of being among but not with us and Porfiry 's torture tune of ‘ There 's nothing here , precisely nothing , perhaps absolutely nothing ’ — doubling takes on a new form in The Possessed , closer to the I/We/They/Everybody/Nobody shifts of The House of the Dead than anything else before it or to come . |
| 48 | The practice of sacrifice , the shedding of the blood of animals , goes back to the very beginning of God 's dealings with sinful man ( see Genesis 4:3 ) . |
| 49 | This goes back to the very infancy of the cinema , when the camera was hand-cranked and therefore almost instantly variable in speed . |
| 50 | Jacobson 's rehabilitation of Cain is in a literary tradition that goes back to the Romantic poets , who identified with Cain as an outsider . |
| 51 | It goes back to the short term thing , you fear that they do n't do it as well . |
| 52 | Just to mention one more thing the force video , a number of community affairs staff have mentioned to me that it 's out of date cos it goes back to the previous organisation |
| 53 | ‘ It goes back to the old OSS days and the crusade we were running against Hitler along with your SOE and Dot Tuckey and people like that . |
| 54 | It 's it 's er , the travellers tradition and it goes back to the old tradition of the Scottish people as well |
| 55 | Hardly a page goes by without the hapless Francis noticing something which reminds him , improbably , of something else . |