Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [adv prt] to [art] [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 | If , however , continuous variation is required , this preset can be omitted from the board and three wires taken from the relevant board points up to a conventional 1k rotary potentiometer mounted on a front panel , along with any metering . |
| 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 | The noise builds up to a shattering roar . |
| 5 | The origin of the synagogue goes back to the Babylonian period . |
| 6 | The work of solicitors goes back to the 15th century and as time has gone on they have become increasingly influential . |
| 7 | 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 ! ’ |
| 8 | If an employee trades down to a cheaper model and sacrifices less salary , no output tax liability arises . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 12 | Whether or not this pilot study leads on to a larger project depends upon first , whether or not the aid project goes ahead , and second , whether or not the pilot study indicates that a more ambitious study is feasible . |
| 13 | THE 1993 Historic Scotland Events Programme gets off to a dramatic start on Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 May , with a major battle re-enactment by the Sealed Knot at Linlithgow Palace and Peel . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It 's a fair cop : female fan gives in to the shamanic rhythms in Houston |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | If all the transactions costs are zero , this condition collapses back to the previous no-arbitrage equality . |
| 18 | The fine church of St Wilfrid dates back to the 12th century , although there is mention of a church in the Domesday Book . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | At the Apollo 17 site an experiment was carried out by the astronauts which gave the seismic wave speeds down to a few kilometres depth in the vicinity of the site . |
| 22 | But then there are other gardening programmes which very much perform that kind of mediating role you 're talking about , where one of the presenters goes along to a real person with an actual garden and asks the gardener how he or she sets about creating this garden and quite a number of those presenters are women . |
| 23 | ( 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The history of this Fellowship in Orkney goes back to the early 1980s … |
| 26 | ‘ Each panic harks back to a mythical age of contentment and social order . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Opposite a café and shop , a tall , sparse wood leads down to a dramatic view of the Falls , a cataract powerful enough to feed a local hydro-electricity station . |
| 29 | Flor gets off to an impressive start ; the terraced dynamics and tempi of the opening section are brooding and solid , with deep , ruminative phrasing from the Concertgebouw basses . |
| 30 | STORY : how Meaulnes gets back to the lost domain . |