Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] back [prep] 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 origin of the synagogue goes back to the Babylonian period . |
| 3 | The work of solicitors goes back to the 15th century and as time has gone on they have become increasingly influential . |
| 4 | Peace People development co-ordinator Patrick Corrigan looks back on the mass rallies of 1976 . |
| 5 | My mind goes back to the original fifteen-year Hospital Plan , published in January 1962 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | If all the transactions costs are zero , this condition collapses back to the previous no-arbitrage equality . |
| 10 | The fine church of St Wilfrid dates back to the 12th century , although there is mention of a church in the Domesday Book . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The ‘ Lang comes back from the grave ’ phenomenon makes the whole election seem a disaster for the anti-unionist forces , but it was much less of one than 1979 . |
| 13 | ( 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The history of this Fellowship in Orkney goes back to the early 1980s … |
| 16 | The master raconteur looks back at the many amusing moments of his 47-year career at the BBC . |
| 17 | Executive Support Manager Allan Paterson looks back over the TOP Programme as it has progressed at Hunterston and considers some of its achievements . |
| 18 | STORY : how Meaulnes gets back to the lost domain . |
| 19 | Although new names have produced the successes , Longman falls back on the old to consolidate the same . |
| 20 | Maggie leans back in the easy chair . |
| 21 | This attractive country home dates back to the 16th century when it was once a farm labourer 's cottage . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Stoneywood Mill dates back to the eighteenth century , and is now part of the Wiggins Teape Group . |
| 24 | New Hall dates back to the 12th century and is reputed to be the oldest fully moated manor house in England . |
| 25 | Greg Grant looks back to the Victorian adventurers who conquered nature to put a communication girdle around the world . |
| 26 | At a time when plans for global communications seem to rest on the semantics of international standards , Greg Grant looks back to the Victorian adventurers who conquered nature to put a communication girdle around the world . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Well , I will have you know that the office of coroner dates back to the twelfth century , before civil servants were thought of ! |
| 29 | The Causey Mounth dates back to the 12th century , when it was first established as a drover 's road . |
| 30 | 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 . |