Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] back [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The oldest tradition , which goes back to the contemporary historian John Foxe , claims that the queen and her Protestant councillors had intended to introduce a settlement based on the 1552 Prayer Book , but were later forced to make some concessions in the Catholic direction because of the implacable opposition of the bishops and some of the lay peers in the House of Lords . |
| 2 | This is a process which goes back to the two questions raised on page 66 : |
| 3 | Doubling in Dostoevsky , which goes back to the very beginning , to Mr Devushkin living and not living in the kitchen , which has its post-Siberian developments in the underground man 's now-you-see-me-now-you-don't ‘ flashing ’ of his consciousness , in Raskolnikov 's and Svidrigailov 's different ways of being among but not with us and Porfiry 's torture tune of ‘ There 's nothing here , precisely nothing , perhaps absolutely nothing ’ — doubling takes on a new form in The Possessed , closer to the I/We/They/Everybody/Nobody shifts of The House of the Dead than anything else before it or to come . |
| 4 | Yet the point , it 's a question really , which refers back to the last programme summary three , of the , the ninety four , ninety five base budget . |
| 5 | I met a teacher recently , one of our best , the sort of charismatic individual with a ready smile , a mind full of anarchic ideas , a love of literature and an effortless but much practised classroom skill which bounces back from the interested eyes 0& his students . |
| 6 | But it has a lyrical depth which reaches back to the great black music of the Seventies and artists like Stevie Wonder and Curtis Mayfield , while touching on Steely Dan , Elvis Costello and Joy Division . |
| 7 | The skull seems to become translucent , and within it — and in the flesh about it — knotted cords of white begin to form into a spiral which funnels back into a single thicker cord at the back of the skull . |
| 8 | The no-arbitrage band is ( S - D ) ( 1 + r ) - Sr ( l - f ) >or= F >or= ( S - D ) ( 1 + r ) , which can be rewritten as S ( 1 + rf ) - D ( 1 + r ) |
| 9 | A popular Greek saying is ‘ Know Thyself ’ , which dates back to the ancient Greeks . |
| 10 | We took them to lunch at the Bull Inn which dates back to the 15th century , and afterwards explored the local market . |
| 11 | They hope to raise £1 million for the upkeep of the Manor which dates back to the 13th century . |
| 12 | Herriot 's Hotel and restaurant at Hawes has a price tag of £295,000 , while Kirkbymoorside 's George and Dragon , which dates back to the 13th century , is for sale at £400,000 . |
| 13 | Herriot 's Hotel and restaurant at Hawes has a price tag of £295,000 , while Kirkbymoorside 's George and Dragon , which dates back to the 13th century , is for sale at £400,000 . |
| 14 | The opera season opens here in July and August and , for those with a penchant for history , the old Roman settlement of Ascoli Piceno nearby offers many folklore events and a grand-costumed tournament in August which dates back to the 1300s . |
| 15 | Scott , Hogg , Lockhart and other literary stalwarts are reputed to have frequented this old hunting inn , part of which dates back to the 18th century . |
| 16 | The café , which dates back to the last century , has been maintained intact , at least in its decor . |
| 17 | The beautiful crown spire caps the historic High Kirk of Edinburgh , which dates back to the fifteenth century . |
| 18 | She considers the idea , implicit in much feminist theory , of an authentic self which is said to be socially conditioned by patriarchal power , and argues that this idea owes much to a tradition in Western philosophy which dates back to the Aristotelian distinction between actions that are voluntary and actions which are coerced , a tradition that can be traced through Descartes to the present time . |
| 19 | There are numerous castles , including Chirk Castle which dates back to the 14th century and has some lovely formal gardens , and a little further away , Powis Castle , built in the 15th century but altered through the years and now very much a stately home with a large deer park . |
| 20 | Plugged into an amp the EQ takes things from bright , jangling treble to a fat bass which feeds back at the lowest volumes when the relevant slider is pushed way up . |
| 21 | Mum , I do n't want that one then she goes back on the three , goes , yeah ? |
| 22 | Hannah does that a lot , right , she goes to America and she comes back with an American accent , she goes to Scotland , she comes back with a Scottish accent , oh |
| 23 | so , er , Jack saying get that Christmas pudding , anyway she comes back with the ready scones do n't she ? |
| 24 | Hannah does that a lot , right , she goes to America and she comes back with an American accent , she goes to Scotland , she comes back with a Scottish accent , oh |
| 25 | When one goes back to the real time in which we live , however , there will still appear to be singularities . |
| 26 | They were things that you took to enhance your experience and to make it more intense — to make your personal development became part of your life , It was a very high-minded approach and when one looks at what has happened to the drug scene today and one looks back to the prevailing attitudes at the time , one can see the absolute , total abhorrence among drug takers that I knew in those days of amphetamines , heroin , barbiturates , mandrax — all those things that had an adverse physical effect which were considered to by highly dangerous to one 's personal development and to one 's daily living . |
| 27 | ‘ I feel it discourages burglars and it seems more welcoming when one comes back to an empty house . ’ |
| 28 | Once again one comes back to the fundamental question of how much use all this is and whether the NSA really provides good value for money . |
| 29 | If one works back from the sixteenth-century evidence , one is left with a strong impression that the years after 1450 saw the greatest pressure of enclosures . |
| 30 | The major question thus always remains unanswered in the Critique : every time that Sartre announces that he is about to proceed with the fundamental problem of how History can be a totalization without a totalizer , he turns back to a previous , more easily intelligible stage on the way . |