Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] back [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story goes back to the major earthquake , magnitude 7 on the Richter scale , which rocked Greece in February 1981 . |
| 2 | The origin of the synagogue goes back to the Babylonian period . |
| 3 | My mind goes back to the original fifteen-year Hospital Plan , published in January 1962 . |
| 4 | The history of the perehera goes back to the second century AD , when King Gajabuha won a great victory against his foes in southern India , the Tamils , chasing them back across the narrow strait into their homeland . |
| 5 | The architecture shows the influence of the Italian colonisation ; the modern harbour harks back to the healthy export of livestock to the Gulf States ; and the large scale agricultural activity in the adjacent fertile valley now lies dormant with equipment and crops stolen and even the electricity pylons stripped of their cables . |
| 6 | The so-called ’ swan-upping ’ ceremony dates back to the fourteenth century … but nowadays its as much a fun day out as a way of keeping the swans healthy . |
| 7 | If all the transactions costs are zero , this condition collapses back to the previous no-arbitrage equality . |
| 8 | ( Koch 1985a , p. 149 ) Koch and others have stressed that because this conception of the gaze goes back to the Freudian idea of an originary bisexuality it therefore affords a better explanation of women 's actual viewing behaviour , e.g. their multiple identifications with either gender . |
| 9 | The work of cataloguing goes back to the early years of Italian unification in the late nineteenth century when the first photographs were taken of archaeological sites and of celebrated pictures and monuments . |
| 10 | The master raconteur looks back at the many amusing moments of his 47-year career at the BBC . |
| 11 | ‘ Each panic harks back to a mythical age of contentment and social order . ’ |
| 12 | This attractive country home dates back to the 16th century when it was once a farm labourer 's cottage . |
| 13 | This law dates back to the Middle Ages , when it was a means of filling the royal coffers , and until now it has allowed the State ( today the Treasury ) to claim possession of valuable objects whose owners can not be traced . |
| 14 | Stoneywood Mill dates back to the eighteenth century , and is now part of the Wiggins Teape Group . |
| 15 | New Hall dates back to the 12th century and is reputed to be the oldest fully moated manor house in England . |
| 16 | Well , I will have you know that the office of coroner dates back to the twelfth century , before civil servants were thought of ! |
| 17 | Equation ( 5.7 ) uses rm to discount the bond 's cash flows back to the next coupon payment and then discounts the value at that date back to date t . |
| 18 | The psalm refers back to the dreadful moment when the children of Israel , set free from Egypt , quarrelled with Moses about the lack of water , saying : ‘ Is the Lord among us or not ? ’ |
| 19 | The use of inspectors as a form of central supervision goes back to the Poor Law reform of 1834 . |
| 20 | This ice cream boasts American parentage , though its ancestry goes back to the exotic sherbets which were made in the Arab kingdoms of Granada and Cordoba in Spain . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ The de Sciorto name and title goes back to the sixteenth century . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | Each time one hip thrusts forwards , the other draws back by an equal amount and is thus cocked for the next punch . |
| 26 | The whole area , a thicker , stronger basalt pavement , is funnel-shaped and the water pours back into the central hole that has been emptied to a depth of three or more metres . |
| 27 | When the subordinate process terminates , control goes back to the calling processes . |
| 28 | Hot cross buns , Simnel cake and Easter biscuits ( see recipes on page 60 ) contain currants and mixed spices that have been eaten at Lent since Elizabethan times , although their use goes back to the Middle Ages when only the rich could afford spice . |
| 29 | Our overseas advisory role goes back to the 1950s , when bankers in Commonwealth countries first started to become members in significant numbers . |
| 30 | The latter phrase harks back to the bare trust provision in section 6(3) . |