Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] back [prep] [art] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in the library there is a more recent collection of men 's pin-up books dating back to the Fifties . |
| 2 | It was now generally agreed ( despite claims to the same effect reaching back to the 1930s and beyond ) that the map of literary history was as complete as it was ever likely to become . " |
| 3 | In the example given , the College 's close relationship with the catering industry , covering conventional day-release , specialist courses and demonstrations , and extensive work experience dating back to the 1960s had given the mutual confidence and understanding which made an unconventional pattern worth trying . |
| 4 | You could see the prisoners looking back at the two bodies in the centre of the carnage ; there was a lot of blood now , spreading in pools . |
| 5 | This case relied on law dating back to the 1870s . |
| 6 | Milton 's God was Empson 's last book , in his lifetime , though when he died he was collecting at least three others : Using Biography ( 1984 ) , on Marvell , Dryden , Fielding , Yeats , Eliot and Joyce ; Essays on Shakespeare ( 1986 ) ; and a book of Renaissance essays , as well as a massive ragbag ( as he called it ) of papers and reviews dating back to the 1920s which , when it posthumously appeared as Argufying ( 1987 ) , was rapidly seen by many to be the finest critical miscellany in the language . |
| 7 | He had been a loyal supporter for many years , his business relationship stretching back to the 1900s when he booked John 's touring pantomimes . |
| 8 | Sure enough , there is observational evidence of such clusters going back to the 11 000 nebular objects listed in J. L. E. Dreyer 's New General Catalogue , in the 1890s , long before Hubble 's discovery of their true nature . |
| 9 | Like most girls of my generation , I managed to graduate from High School with my virginity intact , ’ wrote Janet Harris looking back on the Fifties in The Prime of Ms America . |
| 10 | My parents collected all their copies of Wimpey News and we have back numbers going back to the 1940s . |
| 11 | Prest ( 1967 ) concluded that this system was successfully grounded in procedural tradition dating back to the 1860s . |
| 12 | The series , which features unseen film dating back to the Twenties , celebrates the 70th anniversary of the discovery of the tomb by archeologist Howard Carter . |
| 13 | I have some limited sale documents dating back to the 1920's when the Wyresdale Estate was broken up and properties sold . |
| 14 | In Bohemia especially , with its long tradition of industrialisation stretching back to the 1830s , where there has always been a strong commitment to the idea of social equality , where the call for national equality against the Germans had a strong social context , it 's quite logical that some kind of socialist or social thought will in the end prevail . |
| 15 | There were plenty of examples of performances which fall into this category in cinematographic history , most notably those of James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart dating back to the Thirties , and the more lovably roguish role , in Bogart 's case , in The African Queen . |