Example sentences of "[noun sg] [that] [vb -s] back [prep] the " 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 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The rabbit that goes back through the gap will run his head into trouble . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ( 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) ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Brighton & Hove has a tradition of fine hotel-keeping and hospitality that goes back to the Prince Regent 's days . |
| 16 | But the plunder is just part of the over-fishing that dates back to the 1960s , when North Sea herring were annihilated . |
| 17 | Jacobson 's rehabilitation of Cain is in a literary tradition that goes back to the Romantic poets , who identified with Cain as an outsider . |
| 18 | Swan-upping ; a Thames tradition that dates back to the Middle Ages . |
| 19 | Traces of at least a dozen different cars up that wee track that leads back to the road , and of two or three heavy vehicles , all very deeply indented . |