Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] 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 | Yucca elephantipes stands out from the common herd with care |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | STORY : how Meaulnes gets back to the lost domain . |
| 5 | But most of the gap between Britain and other countries opens up within the next 20 years . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The rule that delivery and payment are concurrent conditions ties in with the unpaid seller 's lien ( see Chapter 12 ) which entitles him in the absence of contrary agreement to retain the goods until payment . |
| 8 | And much the same process of intensification at the edges goes on in The Spanish Gardener ( 1956 ) , where another little boy is prevented by his possessive and emotionally repressed father from developing his relationship with a gardener . |
| 9 | Like other major echinoderm groups the geological record of the sea urchins goes back to the Ordovician . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The first indisputable evidence of the use of nailed horseshoes goes back to the ninth century . |
| 13 | Inside , a rectangle of delicately latticed jali screens gives on to the brick-built central chamber . |
| 14 | The dhāmi bursts out through the crowded doorway , carrying his bells and a bronze bowl of turmeric-stained rice grains in one hand . |
| 15 | However , the performance of monocrystalline cells drops off with the longer wavelengths of light in this spectrum . |
| 16 | A series of ornate gilt mouldings on the walls funnels down towards the brocaded red curtain , arranged into rectangles like the huge old picture frames in Mr Fuller 's house , surrounding the dark oil paintings he did as a student and smuggled out of Belgium when he settled here after the Great War . |