Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [v-ing] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They represented a common English custom dating back to the Middle Ages and were first mentioned in Stamford in 1486 . |
| 2 | Easily Accessible : Lewes is an interesting town dating back to the Norman Conquest with steep narrow streets and a mixture of Georgian and older buildings including antique shops , a ruined castle , museums and a house which once belonged to Anne of Cleves . |
| 3 | He flicked the light on , and the greenish glow reflecting back from the tiled interior showed it to be empty of human occupation . |
| 4 | He also thinks it is important to build such a museum , as Japan and Britain have a long historical relationship dating back to the seventeenth-century when William Adams came to Japan on a Dutch ship . |
| 5 | It was rather pathetic , like an ageing colonel looking back on the days of Empire . |
| 6 | Although they were public servants answerable to the Home Secretary , the Prison Commissioners had a separate existence going back to the reforms of the late Nineteenth Century . |
| 7 | And today we have a contribution to make in terms of our history of free trade , our outward-looking attitude to the world , and the weight of our tradition of parliamentary and democratic government stretching back over the centuries — something unmatched by any of our partners , for some of whom the very concept of democracy is of recent origin . |
| 8 | The path leads down and around to a brick-paved seating area situated beneath a climber-covered arbour looking back towards the house . |
| 9 | Far below was the cobbled courtyard , the ancient walls of the castle , the drawbridge and the winding road leading back down the narrow valley towards civilisation , but she was trapped in this gaunt grey fortress with this brooding stranger , and she longed only for escape . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | With that , Beth and her son went hand in hand out of the house and down the street , the boy 's constant chatter filtering back to the watching maid and causing her to smile . |
| 12 | Keeping a little white icing back for the wave crests , tint the remaining royal icing shades of different blues and greens for the sea . |
| 13 | Science and The Church are caught in a bloody feud dating back to the 14th century . |
| 14 | The aircraft that this intrepid group had used was a large lumbering biplane dating back to the early 1930s . |
| 15 | Eight miles from the Bauble lies the historic town of Colchester , an ancient town dating back to the 1st century BC with Roman remains , a ruined Norman castle , a 15th-century abbey , museums and excellent shopping facilities . |
| 16 | Anyway , I have no access to it , and have to cart metres of black metal piping back from the town and sweat and labour over it , bending it and cutting it and boring it and crimping it and bending it again , straining with it in the vice until the bench and shed creak with my efforts . |
| 17 | A series of synthetic compounds , with a long pedigree going back to the work of Crum Brown and Fraser in the 1860s ( see chapter 2 ) , were produced simultaneously by R. B. Barlow and H. R. Ing in the Pharmacology Laboratory at Oxford and by W. D. M. ( later Sir William ) Paton and Eleanor Zaimis at the National Institute for Medical Research . |
| 18 | It is a building of great age dating back to the end of the 12th century , or the beginning of the 13th , the actual date of its building has been lost , but Fielding gives us a clue in his records by naming the first Chaplain as Michael de Painton , before 1319 , and William de Kucklestane Chaplain of St. Lawrence 1319–44 and also of Dode , so it seems that Upper Hailing shared a Minister these many years ago . |
| 19 | While these discoveries illustrated remarkably well the period of the greatest renown and prosperity of Aphrodisias ( between late Hellenistic times and the early Byzantine era , i.e. , first century BC to the seventh century AD ) , archaeological evidence for a long prehistory dating back to the fifth millennium BC was recorded in excavations of two habitation mounds , or höyük , located at the heart of the Roman city . |
| 20 | Everyone round the table listens intently to the story — the Chases , the Waylands , the Chyldes , the Kessels , the Bernsteins , Charles Aught , Luci Hayter , Rayner Keat , and Francis Fairlie who is still hesitating about what life to commit himself to — a great audience stretching back into the dim recesses of the room , a densely cultivated field growing faces . |
| 21 | They have had a substantial number dating back to the abortive anti-British campaign of the 1950s . |
| 22 | This , however , is an over-simplified view as the current phase of uplift and volcanicity represents only the most recent episode in a complex history stretching back to the Mesozoic ; moreover , the history of this vast mountain system differs greatly from one part to another . |
| 23 | ‘ Josephinism ’ in religious matters , again , it is now clear , had behind it a long tradition extending back to the first years of the century . |
| 24 | The veneration of saints has a long history dating back to the early martyrs ( meaning witnesses ) . |
| 25 | Public expenditure control has a long history dating back to the early eighteenth century . |
| 26 | Prest ( 1967 ) concluded that this system was successfully grounded in procedural tradition dating back to the 1860s . |
| 27 | Cor you 're a long time coming back from the Rose and Crown , do n't forget that 's where we were |
| 28 | KOD belong to and older and , dare I say , bolder tradition of British independent rock stretching back through The Bunnymen , The Banshees , The Cocteau Twins and The Smiths . |
| 29 | Your coach will be waiting to depart from EURO DISNEYLAND at about 2.30pm for your return journey to the French coast and your short ferry crossing back to the UK . |
| 30 | After breakfast , reboard your coach for your return journey to the French coast and your short ferry crossing back to the UK . |