Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] back [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | And at the same time , and slightly in contradiction to that , I found it increasing erm , er , perception and indication of dissatisfaction with the way in which the joint er , collaborative structures were actually working , if I may say , especially at the top level in terms of the political erm erm , so I say to you colleagues , that you are required as er , by statute to , to have in place collaborative structures , er , under a statute that goes back to the nineteen seventies , and I should also say to you that up and down the country that authorities like your own are at this stage doing what you 're doing , and that is reviewing the effectiveness of the operation of those structures , and probably coming to much the same conclusions . |
2 | The part to go is the Business Systems line of Motorola Inc 68000- and Intel Corp iAPX-86-based Unix machines that are the direct successors to Texas 's old TI 980 and TI 990 minicomputer business that goes back to the early 1970s . |
3 | Jacobson 's rehabilitation of Cain is in a literary tradition that goes back to the Romantic poets , who identified with Cain as an outsider . |
4 | Elsewhere , like on ‘ Criminals ’ or ‘ Shaky Ground ’ , you get all the weird , unresolved chording that Michael Stipe favours , and a suitably battered vocal that reaches back to the old mountain music and forward to Dinosaur Jr , Lemonheads and Nick Cave . |
5 | But the plunder is just part of the over-fishing that dates back to the 1960s , when North Sea herring were annihilated . |
6 | The bureaucracy certainly needs streamlining : the immigrants are met initially by the Absorption Ministry , but once in the country many of their needs are looked after by the Jewish Agency , the semi-private organisation that dates back to the early years of Jewish settlement in Palestine . |
7 | Swan-upping ; a Thames tradition that dates back to the Middle Ages . |
8 | There is St John 's Hospital , the first in Europe , built in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries , although founded much earlier , and still in use until the 1970s ; the Beguinage , a religious foundation for women that dates back to the twelfth century , now a convent ; the thirteenth-to fifteenth-century Church of our Lady , with a 350ft tower ; the Stadhuis , a magnificent Gothic town hall dating from 1376-1420 . |
9 | It is the last of the merostomes the group of fossil horseshoe crabs that were varied and numerous in the coal swamps of the Carboniferous and have a history that extends back to the Cambrian . |
10 | This central role for private property has a long history in European thought and goes back to the eighteenth-century notion of the social contract . |
11 | The car leaps forward , tears between two lorries and lurches back into the middle lane . |
12 | Then he drags his victim into the bushes or the trees , kills and cuts back to the other road and the car and makes his getaway . |
13 | But Liza ( with a ‘ Z ’ ) kicked the bad habits today her only addictions are cigarettes and caffeine and gets back into the old song-and-dance routine for Stepping Out , released on CIC Video on March 20 . |
14 | We can trace the current state of our knowledge about village origins and changes back to the 1940s . |
15 | The house itself is , not surprisingly , a little younger and dates back to the 16th century when it was owned by the great-great-aunt of President George Washington . |