Example sentences of "[noun] going [adv prt] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His origins are obscure , but he seems to have been a German from one of the tribes which were allowed to settle within the Empire , and for which privilege they were liable for military service , a practice going back to the late third century . |
| 2 | Beyond the car park , the road contours the hillside , two branches going down to the coastal dwellings of Inver Alligin , and then turns sharply uphill to force a narrow passage across a bare and rocky headland on the last stage of its journey . |
| 3 | The local heats take place at Acklam Sports Centre on Wednesday and Thursday , July 29 and 30 with the winners going on to the regional final on August 5 . |
| 4 | National Assembly elections involve two rounds of voting on consecutive Sundays with the two most successful candidates in the first round and candidates polling over 12.5 per cent of the vote going on to the second round . |
| 5 | That is why the concept of the safety case — a case going back to the very essentials of design — is so important . |
| 6 | There are also problems at Wild Cat Tor , where serious erosion has been caused by climbers going up to the Blue Grass and Singing Kettle buttresses . |
| 7 | ‘ Whoever 's that ? ’ said his Mum going through to the front door . |
| 8 | ‘ You will not lose by this , Yin Tsu , ’ he said softly , his heart going out to the old man . |
| 9 | Because if they do n't understand that , there 's no point going on to the next stage . |
| 10 | Hughes , aged29 , has a remarkable record going back to the first women 's World Championships in 1980 including a world gold in 1986 , world bronze in 1987 and two European titles . |
| 11 | A series of beats are held , usually with the first four boards going through to the next round , culminating in a final . |
| 12 | Lanfranc could only hope that the papal Curia would come to recognize the substantial strength of this papally inspired practice of primacy going back to the seventh century . |
| 13 | Recriminations over the sound and an equivocal audience response ( some pogoed , most stared blankly on as a repeat offender dove on to dance to ‘ Motown Junk ’ ) sees the set and with the bass ricocheting off the backdrop , the drum kit going down to a repeated kicking and singer James making messy love to his gorgeous white Gibson . |
| 14 | A delightful village pub with traditions going back to the eighteenth-century . |
| 15 | Everybody did 10 laps with the winners of each race going through to the next heat . |
| 16 | On his left — but for the bungaloid eruption — ; there would have been sand dunes going down to the deep blue sea of the Channel ; the stretch of golden sand — had it not been for the litter — making a gentle curve for five miles . |
| 17 | Rights and properties going back to a remote and undocumented past appeared to him to have a sanction which no later enactment — not even by the pope — could alter . |
| 18 | People were coming out from Palm Sunday Mass at the church of Ognissanti , pausing to chat to families going in to the last service and then passing under his window carrying sprays of olive leaves . |
| 19 | We were able to confirm the histories of families going back to the 19th century . |
| 20 | Sure enough , there is observational evidence of such clusters going back to the 11 000 nebular objects listed in J. L. E. Dreyer 's New General Catalogue , in the 1890s , long before Hubble 's discovery of their true nature . |
| 21 | Talk is of household refuse trains going back to the moth-balled Gobowen to Nanbrynmawr line — from Manchester . |
| 22 | It was peaceful more than frenetic , a mirage of slow dawns and sunsets going back to the fluted point people : humbling . |
| 23 | As the first group of pulses were directed to the satellite high above the Indian Ocean , mixed up with all the other transmissions going out to the Far East , they were snatched out of the ether by the NSA 's giant aerials at Morwenstow 60 miles up the coast to the east of Goonhilly , and compared with the watch lists of ‘ interesting ’ numbers on their computer memories . |
| 24 | I think that erm we have a great role to play in international agencies , in people going out to the developing world to teach through education , to perhaps change attitudes in rural development where , as we know , greater prosperity tends to influence people to have fewer children , and since many of the reasons for having large families is to ensure survival , so that the agricultural plot is taken over , the family continues to work , the active group can field the older group , there is less need for that now . |
| 25 | Do you remember many people going off to the Red Brigade ? |
| 26 | ( The little road going off to the left here , towards Host a , I certainly do n't advise ; it scared the wits out of me one afternoon , so steep , narrow and broken was it ) . |
| 27 | The cut for the weekend was made at 156 , with 41 players going through to the final two rounds . |
| 28 | The family live near Hexham somewhere and they have connections going back to the early nineteenth century , ’ Constance said , quoting Miss Hatherby almost verbatim . |
| 29 | The combination of bishopric and monastery was one of the main results of the tenth-century monastic revival , and it had tenuous threads going back to the seventh century . |
| 30 | My parents collected all their copies of Wimpey News and we have back numbers going back to the 1940s . |