Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The work of solicitors goes back to the 15th century and as time has gone on they have become increasingly influential . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The fine church of St Wilfrid dates back to the 12th century , although there is mention of a church in the Domesday Book . |
| 5 | But most of the gap between Britain and other countries opens up within the next 20 years . |
| 6 | At the end of the second row , the Design Controller moves on to the next row of the pattern , ready for you to knit the pattern stitches of the second row of the pattern on your third knitting row . |
| 7 | This attractive country home dates back to the 16th century when it was once a farm labourer 's cottage . |
| 8 | Sunsoft Inc says it will start delivering OEM versions of Solaris 2.1-on-Intel by mid-January , fulfilling its promise to get the desktop Unix for Intel Corp iAPX-86 boxes out during the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 9 | Stoneywood Mill dates back to the eighteenth century , and is now part of the Wiggins Teape Group . |
| 10 | New Hall dates back to the 12th century and is reputed to be the oldest fully moated manor house in England . |
| 11 | Mansell 's Newman-Haas team-mate Mario Andretti lines up on the first row after finishing second fastest qualifier with 223.414 mph . |
| 12 | But in November 1950 the Chinese sent some 250 000 " volunteers " across the Yalu , and the war swung back in favour of the North Koreans and their allies as they drove the UN forces back to the 38th parallel . |
| 13 | Van Gelder said : ‘ Makes it a bit awkward , sir , does n't it , if war breaks out in the next half-hour ? ’ |
| 14 | ( 2 ) The second point follows on from the first . |
| 15 | Well , I will have you know that the office of coroner dates back to the twelfth century , before civil servants were thought of ! |
| 16 | The Causey Mounth dates back to the 12th century , when it was first established as a drover 's road . |
| 17 | Equation ( 5.7 ) uses rm to discount the bond 's cash flows back to the next coupon payment and then discounts the value at that date back to date t . |
| 18 | The reputation of Vertus 's richly perfumed still red wines goes back to the fourteenth century ; in the seventeenth century these wines were favoured by William of Orange . |
| 19 | ‘ The de Sciorto name and title goes back to the sixteenth century . |
| 20 | Tolba belongs to a political species that will become more common as the decade rolls on towards the next century . |
| 21 | Once the first grading has been successfully completed , the student goes on to the next stage of training , which concerns itself with basic semi-free sparring . |
| 22 | Gargy Patel looks back on the first twelve months of the motorway completed after two decades of delay . |
| 23 | A HUMID evening in Boston early last summer ; afternoon rain has cleared , and at Fenway Park the lead-off batter for the visiting Baltimore Orioles steps up for the first pitch from the Red Sox . |
| 24 | CAMRA would prefer beer to be brewed solely from barley malt but the use of sugar dates back to the 19th century and many renowned beers , such as Marston 's Pedigree , have recipes that include 10 per cent or more brewing sugars . |
| 25 | The pal then puts his phone receiver to the radio and Mike listens in for the next 90 minutes — cost £6.75 . |
| 26 | The first known use of carburisation and quenching of iron dates back to the eleventh and tenth centuries BC in Cyprus and Palestine . |
| 27 | As Hilary Land points out in the first of her articles reproduced here , the TUC had been ambivalent and suspicious about the introduction of family allowances throughout the 1930s . |
| 28 | The recorded history of the church goes back to the mid-12th century , and in this study the Author describes church life in Foleshill from the outbreak of World War Two , right through to the restoration of the Old Church ( as it is known locally ) . |
| 29 | The tradition of literacy in the army goes back to the seventeenth century and the Civil War , which was fought with texts and pamphlets as much as with weapons , and beyond to the Reformation , and beyond that again to the mediaeval orders of chivalry such as the Knights Templar . |
| 30 | Anthropology as an organized subject goes back to the mid-nineteenth century [ Fortes 1969:6 , following Kroeber ] and was closely associated with the study of evolution . |