Example sentences of "[noun sg] [that] [verb] back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only 15 months later , the participants in that match , which , it must be said , was not full of passion , are now presumably heavily engaged in destroying each other simply because they come from two sides of a divide that dates back to the tragedies , miseries and horrors of the second world war , back to the first world war and into the deep recesses of history before that time . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The last thing I wanted was to find myself slithering down the steep craggy section above the corrie , having mistakenly bypassed the Y-shaped gully that led back to the car , yet I could sense I was getting it all a bit wrong . |
| 4 | Only in London and Liverpool was there any tradition of Mat building that went back to the middle of the nineteenth century . |
| 5 | The smell that floated back from the river with its docks and factories was unpleasant , like her life at present . |
| 6 | The smaller machines in ICL 's 2900 series provide an eleven-bit link field that points back to the home bucket if the record is stored in overflow . |
| 7 | Her leg cracked against a trailer bar that sloped back to a set of wheels . |
| 8 | At the direction of his wife he had taken fourteen full days in the sun that beat back from the Indian Ocean 's azure . |
| 9 | The upper gallery was lit only by two of the many triple candle-holders in wall-scounces , one at the top of the stairs , and one down the left corridor that led back to the front of the house . |
| 10 | It was only when she had closed the door behind her and was hurrying along the corridor that led back into the hall that she noticed the painting . |
| 11 | Not far from the citadel , should you choose to cross over to that less appealing side of Bayonne , is a small English war cemetery that dates back to the siege . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The rabbit that goes back through the gap will run his head into trouble . |
| 14 | It started in the 38th minute with a straightforward close range blast after Wright destroyed the Ipswich defence and curled an audacious chip-shot that came back from the underside of the bar . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | If important meetings give butterflies in the stomach or a racing pulse , you 're experiencing an affliction that dates back to the stone age : stress . |
| 17 | The old bill that bounced back like a bad penny . |
| 18 | At the one-way door that led back into the station 's tiny foyer and reception area , she stepped aside for him and said , ‘ I hope you find her . ’ |
| 19 | When she went through the door that led back into the kitchen , she found that Julius was still there . |
| 20 | An enmity that goes back to the battle of Manzikert in the wilds of Anatolia 922 years ago will not vanish just because something as ephemeral as communism has gone away . |
| 21 | But a minute or two later , as they turned out of the car park and headed for the road that led back to the villa , Ronni gave way to the growing desolation within her . |
| 22 | The place is peppered with awards and mottos , an approach to life that dates back to the elder Watson , but would be recognised by any Japanese factory manager . |
| 23 | He climbed the short steep ladder that led back onto the deck . |
| 24 | ( Whitehouse and Stuart-Buttle , Revenue Law , 10th edn , Butterworths , para 37.74 , supports this view. ) ( b ) Termination of the settlement When the wife 's interest in possession ceases ( eg when the youngest child becomes 18 years of age ) there should be no charge to inheritance tax on that part of the settled property that reverts back to the husband ( Inheritance Tax Act 1984 , s53(3) ) nor on that part which the wife receives ( s53(2) ) . |
| 25 | He threw her a final black look and proceeded to storm past her , then paused at the edge of the path that led back through the gardens . |
| 26 | So my the , in my mind the best way forward is for this council to promote the right to buy and I fully support this motion and I would urge members of this council to ignore the report that comes back from the housing committee . |
| 27 | Thus was begun another chapter in the extraordinary history of St Clement Danes — a history that goes back until the time of King Arthur , who expelled the Danes from the city of London but allowed those with English wives to settle just outside the city walls . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Brighton & Hove has a tradition of fine hotel-keeping and hospitality that goes back to the Prince Regent 's days . |
| 30 | But the plunder is just part of the over-fishing that dates back to the 1960s , when North Sea herring were annihilated . |