Example sentences of "[noun sg] go [adv prt] to [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 | In another account of youth work , Hubert Secretan rehearsed the same complaint : ‘ Every boy 's sympathy goes out to the lithe and resourceful crook … |
| 3 | The origin of the synagogue goes back to the Babylonian period . |
| 4 | As might be expected from data reported earlier , positive attitudes as measured by all five factors were significantly associated with willingness to go on to a second round of review and reporting . |
| 5 | My mind goes back to the original fifteen-year Hospital Plan , published in January 1962 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | His origins are obscure , but he seems to have been a German from one of the tribes which were allowed to settle within the Empire , and for which privilege they were liable for military service , a practice going back to the late third century . |
| 8 | National Assembly elections involve two rounds of voting on consecutive Sundays with the two most successful candidates in the first round and candidates polling over 12.5 per cent of the vote going on to the second round . |
| 9 | ‘ My father called me Breeze , ’ she added , as he seemed interested ; and as she said that her mind went back to the hot summer 's day when her father had given her the nickname which had been adopted by everyone . |
| 10 | His mind went back to the familiar and unanswerable question : who killed Newley ? |
| 11 | Well it was n't er the wife it was a bit of a setback , we had a bungalow you see , a small bungalow which was in a very , very nice part of Plymouth , well on the outskirts of Plymouth actually , almost in the country and er , to come and find this , well to her it 'd be like a , a terraced house , her mind went back to the old days in Manchester where she came from with the old terraced houses and I think she visualized that then to go in a house that had a , a square room , do you follow ? |
| 12 | ( 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | That is why the concept of the safety case — a case going back to the very essentials of design — is so important . |
| 15 | ‘ Whoever 's that ? ’ said his Mum going through to the front door . |
| 16 | ‘ You will not lose by this , Yin Tsu , ’ he said softly , his heart going out to the old man . |
| 17 | In all cases consent goes up to a certain point only . |
| 18 | Because if they do n't understand that , there 's no point going on to the next stage . |
| 19 | Hughes , aged29 , has a remarkable record going back to the first women 's World Championships in 1980 including a world gold in 1986 , world bronze in 1987 and two European titles . |
| 20 | Lanfranc could only hope that the papal Curia would come to recognize the substantial strength of this papally inspired practice of primacy going back to the seventh century . |
| 21 | Recriminations over the sound and an equivocal audience response ( some pogoed , most stared blankly on as a repeat offender dove on to dance to ‘ Motown Junk ’ ) sees the set and with the bass ricocheting off the backdrop , the drum kit going down to a repeated kicking and singer James making messy love to his gorgeous white Gibson . |
| 22 | Some aspects of open enrolment go back to the 1980 Education Act . |
| 23 | Plans to build a display hangar on the NAM site go back to the early 1980s . |
| 24 | Buildings on the site go back to the eleventh-century , when the town hall , the Broletto Vecchio , of the free city of Milan stood here . |
| 25 | In fact , the origins of the Geneva conference go back to the international chemistry conference held in Paris in 1889 . |
| 26 | Stairs on the right went up to the sixteen guest rooms . |
| 27 | The use of inspectors as a form of central supervision goes back to the Poor Law reform of 1834 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ The de Sciorto name and title goes back to the sixteenth century . |