Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [adv] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story goes back to the major earthquake , magnitude 7 on the Richter scale , which rocked Greece in February 1981 . |
| 2 | The lady Alianor refers always to the new king thus , thought Joan . |
| 3 | In another account of youth work , Hubert Secretan rehearsed the same complaint : ‘ Every boy 's sympathy goes out to the lithe and resourceful crook … |
| 4 | From this , a lane goes forward to the last habitation , Dorusduain , with a parking space midway . |
| 5 | The origin of the synagogue goes back to the Babylonian period . |
| 6 | The reason for the change points again to the essential dilemma trade unionism faced . |
| 7 | The work of solicitors goes back to the 15th century and as time has gone on they have become increasingly influential . |
| 8 | Editorial decisions are backed by extensive market research , and manuscripts selected and edited according to ‘ whether the story lives up to the high standards that Mills and Boon readers have set for us … we ca n't please every one of our readers all the time , but it is n't for want of trying ! ’ |
| 9 | My mind goes back to the original fifteen-year Hospital Plan , published in January 1962 . |
| 10 | The history of the perehera goes back to the second century AD , when King Gajabuha won a great victory against his foes in southern India , the Tamils , chasing them back across the narrow strait into their homeland . |
| 11 | RELATIONS off the park between Rangers and their European Championship League rivals , Marseille , have deteriorated amid reports from Ibrox that the French side reneged on an agreement over tickets for the tie on 7 April that will decide which club goes forward to the European Cup final . |
| 12 | I suspect that the European defence force owes more to the French belief that , by merging German and French forces together , it effectively removes the threat of German militarism , while resurrecting the long-held French ambition to remove the immediate American influence from European defence , which is the case with NATO . |
| 13 | Lisa Stansfield looks forward to the Eighties |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Wring our hands and bleat that the world is ‘ interdependent ’ , ignoring the plain truth that interdependence without equity leads only to the deepening dependency of the weaker ? |
| 16 | And as pressure mounted for military intervention , NATO agreed to draw up plans to use force to make sure humanitarian aid gets through to the stricken region . |
| 17 | Dot Location ( 32 card set ) : Cards on which a single dot appears either to the left or right of the centre , and which appears in any of 16 positions . |
| 18 | Dot Location ( 32 card set ) : Cards on which a single dot appears either to the left or right of the centre , and which appears in any of 16 positions . |
| 19 | The results of these forces are , they argue , felt in Third World countries and simultaneously in the UK and other European and North American economies ( their empirical research relates mainly to the Federal Republic of Germany ) . |
| 20 | The N-Oct 3 protein binds specifically to the octameric regulatory motif ATGCAAAT ( or its complement ATTTGCAT ) . |
| 21 | It 's a fair cop : female fan gives in to the shamanic rhythms in Houston |
| 22 | The so-called ’ swan-upping ’ ceremony dates back to the fourteenth century … but nowadays its as much a fun day out as a way of keeping the swans healthy . |
| 23 | If all the transactions costs are zero , this condition collapses back to the previous no-arbitrage equality . |
| 24 | The fine church of St Wilfrid dates back to the 12th century , although there is mention of a church in the Domesday Book . |
| 25 | two facing pages of newspaper or magazine where the textual material on the left hand side continues across to the right hand side . |
| 26 | Perhaps the DNA of the mule germ-cells mutates back to the parental forms or , more speculatively , as Taylor and Short suggest , borrows chromatin ( chromosomal material ) from a neighbouring cell . |
| 27 | We also have six student-trainers , whose training programme runs parallel to the main course . |
| 28 | I ought in all fairness to acknowledge that no American fault comes up to the revolting habit … of dropping or wrongly inserting the letter h . |
| 29 | ( Koch 1985a , p. 149 ) Koch and others have stressed that because this conception of the gaze goes back to the Freudian idea of an originary bisexuality it therefore affords a better explanation of women 's actual viewing behaviour , e.g. their multiple identifications with either gender . |
| 30 | 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 . |