Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb -s] back [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 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 | The first indisputable evidence of the use of nailed horseshoes goes back to the ninth century . |