Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] [verb] back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said that the official in charge of antiquities at the Nasiriya Museum had received from the Americans a ‘ very small number ’ of terracotta objects dating back to the dawn of mankind and the Babylonian period , some of which had only recently been broken . |
| 2 | Armed vigilante groups fight back against the gangs , adding to a vicious circle of violence . |
| 3 | Perhaps the DNA of the mule germ-cells mutates back to the parental forms or , more speculatively , as Taylor and Short suggest , borrows chromatin ( chromosomal material ) from a neighbouring cell . |
| 4 | And in the library there is a more recent collection of men 's pin-up books dating back to the Fifties . |
| 5 | Persian forces crossed the river Araxes in mid-July 1826 and forced Russia 's frontier troops to fall back on the Georgian capital of Tiflis ( Tbilisi ) . |
| 6 | Research studies demonstrated back in the 1970s the fact that exhaust emissions contained dangerous toxins , in particular lead . |
| 7 | Now , as the echo wavefronts stream back from the tree towards the approaching bat , the bat is still moving fast towards them . |
| 8 | Layers of management have been stripped out and restrictive labour practices dating back to the Red Clyde era have disappeared . |
| 9 | The Army was more ambivalent : while welcoming the end of National Service and the return to ‘ real soldiering ’ with a regular army , the Army Council looked askance at the loss of 51 regiments , 17 of which were infantry battalions with battle honours stretching back over the centuries . |
| 10 | Others , being anciently established , also have manuscript materials going back to the days of their foundation in the Middle Ages or the Tudor period . |
| 11 | The Fletchers had a flat on the first floor of one of the fine period houses dating back to the bad old days of the monarchy and the Iron Guard . |
| 12 | But once record companies went back on the sales offensive the new pop was easily coopted . |
| 13 | He was wearing a duffel coat , done up on the wrong toggles , with copies of evening papers turned back at the job columns sticking out of both pockets . |
| 14 | British Gas says there were no faults with installations in the cottage , which 21-year-old Charlotte shared with her mother , but a cold snap may have caused poisonous carbon monoxide fumes to leak back into the bedroom . |
| 15 | if the war was going badly for NATO , and the USSR was already using nuclear weapons , the West would turn to the cruise missiles to strike back at the Warsaw Pact . |
| 16 | Although some attempts at tackling air pollution problems date back to the last century or even earlier , most countries introduced their strategy for air pollution control in the 1950s , 1960s or 1970s . |
| 17 | Given that suspended particulates have been the subject of pollution control policies dating back to the nineteenth century , it is not surprising that total emissions and average urban concentrations of particulates have decreased markedly during the past few decades . |
| 18 | This important collection increases the Museum 's geographical and subject coverage and comprises of approximately 70,000 images including views of locomotives , rolling stock , moving trains , railway architecture and civil engineering subjects dating back to the early 1900's . |
| 19 | This Easter weekend proves it yet again , with traffic queues stretching back from the West Country halfway to London and Birmingham . |
| 20 | Will the right hon. Gentleman further explain to my constituent why people who reach that age end up in the appalling position of having all their age allowances clawed back by the Government ? |
| 21 | Britain 's Agriculture Minister John Gummer yesterday urged parties to the GATT trade talks to get back round the negotiating table because there was a ‘ deal in sight ’ . |
| 22 | , whose science policy roots go back to the presidency of , retorts : ‘ Paternity is always to prove ’ . |
| 23 | The actual yeoman costumes date back to the 1940s . |
| 24 | Data collected by the RIBA shows that there has been a gradual fall in profit margins dating back to the early 1970s . |
| 25 | She called them girls but many were women whose working days went back to the Utility dresses and khaki battle-dress . |
| 26 | It will be argued in later chapters , for example , that processes within state enterprises act back upon the wider political context and modify its impact . |
| 27 | Dexel is in the bizarre position of exporting granules across thousands of miles , only for some of the end products to arrive back in the UK . |
| 28 | At this point the straw bolsters go back into the windows and the outer door is shut and locked . |
| 29 | The Germans occupied them in the second world war , the Americans rebuilt them afterwards , and then the north-west Europeans came back in the shape of the European Community and its powerful money . |
| 30 | Efficiency wage theories tie back with the rationale of the firm as a form of productive organization . |