Example sentences of "[vb -s] back [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | We 'd want a good description to make sure the right property goes back to the right owner . |
| 33 | In the clinical literature , the word ‘ natural ’ is left undefined ( the medical description of this kind of shock goes back to the nineteenth-century discovery of ‘ hysteria ’ and its symptoms in women ) . |
| 34 | When one goes back to the real time in which we live , however , there will still appear to be singularities . |
| 35 | The story goes back to the major earthquake , magnitude 7 on the Richter scale , which rocked Greece in February 1981 . |
| 36 | The use of inspectors as a form of central supervision goes back to the Poor Law reform of 1834 . |
| 37 | His inspiration goes back to the early idea of Charles Frank , plus the fact that muon catalysed fusion was observed in 1956 by accident and the interest has grown in fits and starts ever since . |
| 38 | The first indisputable evidence of the use of nailed horseshoes goes back to the ninth century . |
| 39 | The power of the pope to depose an unsatisfactory emperor goes back to the Dictatus Pape of Gregory VII — a power which Innocent preferred to see as a right to inspect , approve and crown , but there is little doubt that it was important in the papal moral armoury . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | The origin of the synagogue goes back to the Babylonian period . |
| 42 | The answer goes back to the earlier discussion of complexity . |
| 43 | and then , once you 've claimed , it goes back to the original figure . |
| 44 | Anthropology as an organized subject goes back to the mid-nineteenth century [ Fortes 1969:6 , following Kroeber ] and was closely associated with the study of evolution . |
| 45 | Do you think this er really goes back to the fundamental issue which the Good Committee did n't really address which was the issue of ownership of the pension funds and assets and that whilst pensioners and to an extent employers these days regard the pension fund as deferred pay and pensions payments as deferred pay , the ownership of those funds is still left erm neither still er an argument about wh wh who owns the funds and er a lot of this follows on from that . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | The practice of sacrifice , the shedding of the blood of animals , goes back to the very beginning of God 's dealings with sinful man ( see Genesis 4:3 ) . |
| 48 | This goes back to the very infancy of the cinema , when the camera was hand-cranked and therefore almost instantly variable in speed . |
| 49 | The system goes back to the sixth century , when the founder of the Persian Empire , the great Cyrus , presented seven cities in northern Anatolia to Pytharchos ( see p. 18 ; FGrHist . |
| 50 | It goes back to the short term thing , you fear that they do n't do it as well . |
| 51 | The recognition that ideas are not the pure result of cognition but are affected by the human context of cognition , can be traced back through philosophy — Larrain goes back to the fifteenth century to Machiavelli ( Larrain 1979 : 17 ) . |
| 52 | The reputation of Vertus 's richly perfumed still red wines goes back to the fourteenth century ; in the seventeenth century these wines were favoured by William of Orange . |
| 53 | Just to mention one more thing the force video , a number of community affairs staff have mentioned to me that it 's out of date cos it goes back to the previous organisation |
| 54 | The tradition of literacy in the army goes back to the seventeenth century and the Civil War , which was fought with texts and pamphlets as much as with weapons , and beyond to the Reformation , and beyond that again to the mediaeval orders of chivalry such as the Knights Templar . |
| 55 | ‘ It goes back to the old OSS days and the crusade we were running against Hitler along with your SOE and Dot Tuckey and people like that . |
| 56 | It 's it 's er , the travellers tradition and it goes back to the old tradition of the Scottish people as well |
| 57 | The Brularts , who held the rank of Marquis of Sillery and Marquis of Puisieulx , were a winemaking family whose reputation goes back to the sixteenth century . |
| 58 | ‘ The de Sciorto name and title goes back to the sixteenth century . |
| 59 | Thus " the engine " in ( 3 ) , ( 5 ) and ( 11 ) refers back to the engine introduced in ( 1 ) ; " the house " in ( 14 ) refers back to the low cottage introduced in ( 13 ) . |
| 60 | 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 . |