Example sentences of "[vb -s] back [prep] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today , the Mirror looks back to the first tragic deaths in one of the world 's longest and more bitter conflicts . |
| 2 | The master raconteur looks back at the many amusing moments of his 47-year career at the BBC . |
| 3 | Gargy Patel looks back on the first twelve months of the motorway completed after two decades of delay . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Evidence of human occupation here goes back to the Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic periods ( Early and Middle Stone Ages ) but its period of greatest activity was in the Late Iron Age , from roughly 100 BC to 50 AD , when it became a trading centre and port for people and goods from the Continent . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I suppose we should really begin at the word strangeness because the word strangeness goes back to the late Fifties , early Sixties , when some people discovered particles more massive than neutrons and protons and these particles were discovered in the erm cosmic radiation , and they were also produced by accelerators in laboratories . |
| 9 | The BLR&DD 's involvement with user education goes back to the early 1970s when it was called the Office for Scientific and Technical Information ( OSTI ) but it was the BLR&DD 's establishment of the Review Committee of Education for Information Use in 1974 that marked its presence in the field . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The story of the creation of the time-scale of magnetic reversals ( the Jaramillo Reve provided the final entry in the time-scale ) goes back to the early 1950s when the scientists at Berkeley perfected the detection accuracy of the potassium/argon method of rock-dating for samples less than a million years old . |
| 12 | The history of this Fellowship in Orkney goes back to the early 1980s … |
| 13 | My mind goes back to the original fifteen-year Hospital Plan , published in January 1962 . |
| 14 | The same applies to the Committee 's use of the term " reality " which , when placed in significant opposition to " convention " , refers back to the same selective cultural parameters . |
| 15 | The screen changes back to the original main design screen , but this time with the new , empty palette displayed in the box at the right side of the screen . |
| 16 | The building dates back to the early 1800s and although it was partly rebuilt in the early 1900s it still resembles the original design . |
| 17 | The original building of the Hotel Lapershoek dates back to the early 20th century when it was a grand stately home , and it has since been thoughtfully converted in to a very comfortable four star hotel . |
| 18 | The Sephardic community in Belgrade dates back to the early sixteenth century and was well established in the commercial life of the city . |
| 19 | The practice of abortion probably dates back to the earliest human societies . |
| 20 | The company dates back to the so-called Ever-sharp pencil invented in 1915 , through to a 1960s desktop computer and now a liquid crystal television display . |
| 21 | If all the transactions costs are zero , this condition collapses back to the previous no-arbitrage equality . |