Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [adv prt] 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 | In another account of youth work , Hubert Secretan rehearsed the same complaint : ‘ Every boy 's sympathy goes out to the lithe and resourceful crook … |
| 3 | The origin of the synagogue goes back to the Babylonian period . |
| 4 | The work of solicitors goes back to the 15th century and as time has gone on they have become increasingly influential . |
| 5 | 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 ! ’ |
| 6 | My mind goes back to the original fifteen-year Hospital Plan , published in January 1962 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It 's a fair cop : female fan gives in to the shamanic rhythms in Houston |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | If all the transactions costs are zero , this condition collapses back to the previous no-arbitrage equality . |
| 13 | The fine church of St Wilfrid dates back to the 12th century , although there is mention of a church in the Domesday Book . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ( 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The history of this Fellowship in Orkney goes back to the early 1980s … |
| 19 | I can not see how they could be established in British literary education , where there are no graduate schools as such , and the narrow , uphill tunnel of A-level work leads on to the rocky , cloudy uplands of the undergraduate degree , with its confused mixture of practical criticism and thematic study , analysis and literary history , coverage and special subjects . |
| 20 | STORY : how Meaulnes gets back to the lost domain . |
| 21 | As confidence in the concept rises the emphasis of the design work moves on to the scheming phase . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | This attractive country home dates back to the 16th century when it was once a farm labourer 's cottage . |
| 24 | This law dates back to the Middle Ages , when it was a means of filling the royal coffers , and until now it has allowed the State ( today the Treasury ) to claim possession of valuable objects whose owners can not be traced . |
| 25 | Valdštejnská continues round to the National Gallery exhibition gallery in the Valdštejn Riding School . |
| 26 | Stoneywood Mill dates back to the eighteenth century , and is now part of the Wiggins Teape Group . |
| 27 | New Hall dates back to the 12th century and is reputed to be the oldest fully moated manor house in England . |
| 28 | The party 's chair , Sara Parkin , said : " Unlike the other political parties , this manifesto faces up to the real issues " . |
| 29 | From near Alport Low , Hern Clough leads down to the tranquil hollow of Grains in the Water , a magical spot in a wide bowl of surrounding hills . |
| 30 | Greg Grant looks back to the Victorian adventurers who conquered nature to put a communication girdle around the world . |