Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb -s] [adv prt] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The work of solicitors goes back to the 15th century and as time has gone on they have become increasingly influential . |
2 | Perhaps the DNA of the mule germ-cells mutates back to the parental forms or , more speculatively , as Taylor and Short suggest , borrows chromatin ( chromosomal material ) from a neighbouring cell . |
3 | STORY : how Meaulnes gets back to the lost domain . |
4 | The reputation of Vertus 's richly perfumed still red wines goes back to the fourteenth century ; in the seventeenth century these wines were favoured by William of Orange . |
5 | Like other major echinoderm groups the geological record of the sea urchins goes back to the Ordovician . |
6 | Henry Maine 's insistence that there is a radical distinction between the status relationships of early , kinship-based , societies and the contract relationships of " modern " societies goes back to the 1860s . |
7 | These vines overlook a small north-south running valley , on the other side of which a 170-metre high spur of vines drops down to the northwestern edge of the village . |
8 | The first indisputable evidence of the use of nailed horseshoes goes back to the ninth century . |
9 | Inside , a rectangle of delicately latticed jali screens gives on to the brick-built central chamber . |