Example sentences of "[v-ing] back [prep] [art] [adj] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking back on a memorable 1991 , 26-year-old Roebuck thinks he was a very fortunate man . |
| 2 | The start of a New Year is a time for looking back on the past 12 months and also a time when self-styled pundits such as myself are unwisely tempted to look into their crystal balls and come up with the predictions that by the end of the year they may well regret |
| 3 | Looking back over the last two years , portraits and townscapes , in Berlin or in other locations , predominate . |
| 4 | Looking back over the last 19 years he said : ‘ Having had the opportunity to set up and develop the education service in Lothian has been enormously challenging and satisfying and I believe it is an education service of good quality with many forward-looking policies now established . |
| 5 | Looking back from the late 1980s it seems that decentralization was not a clean break , nor was it a temporary aberration , since elements of both continue to exist side by side in the British settlement system . |
| 6 | Looking back from the eclectic seventies , the essentially post-sixties seventies , these youngsters of the fifties might well appear a deeply conventional , timid , duffle-jacketed wasp-waisted narrow-based crew , but to Alix , newly emerging from the all-too-personal matrix or patrix of The Heights , they had seemed richly various . |
| 7 | FAMILY records in Scotland dating back to the early 1800s have played an important role in an international effort to learn more about an inherited form of breast and ovarian cancer . |
| 8 | This important collection increases the Museum 's geographical and subject coverage and comprises of approximately 70,000 images including views of locomotives , rolling stock , moving trains , railway architecture and civil engineering subjects dating back to the early 1900's . |
| 9 | PC John Burden , coroner 's officer for Canterbury , Kent , said : ‘ He had a history of depression dating back to the early 1970s and he had been depressed since September this year . ’ |
| 10 | Data collected by the RIBA shows that there has been a gradual fall in profit margins dating back to the early 1970s . |
| 11 | Some are originals from the 2 million documents dating back to the early 1600s which are stored in the Hydrographic Office , and some are sophisticated copies made from the originals used 50 years ago . |
| 12 | The aircraft that this intrepid group had used was a large lumbering biplane dating back to the early 1930s . |
| 13 | Bicester is also a well known hunting centre with a hunt dating back to the late 1700s . |
| 14 | Most of the alleged incidents occurred during 1985–89 , with some dating back to the late 1970s . |
| 15 | A second interpretation of the developments of the 1980s would set them in a longer context , dating back to the late 1960s . |
| 16 | Dating back to the late 1960s when the announcement of the Wilson government Urban Aid programme followed swiftly on the heels of Enoch Powell 's predictions of rivers of blood flowing through British cities as a result of racial conflict , there has regularly been a connection between the fear of ( racially based ) civil unrest and the implementation of high profile symbolic palliatives for inner city malaise ( Sills , Taylor and Golding , 1988 ; Solomos , 1988 ) . |
| 17 | The lesson , in my view is clear : neither to stand still and simply change leader ; nor , certainly , to go lurching back to the early 1980s , but to continue and intensify the process of change . |
| 18 | But kids have a long tradition of getting the better of adults , going back to the Famous Five and beyond . |
| 19 | Sure enough , there is observational evidence of such clusters going back to the 11 000 nebular objects listed in J. L. E. Dreyer 's New General Catalogue , in the 1890s , long before Hubble 's discovery of their true nature . |
| 20 | ‘ We have a running programme of consultation going back over the last two years , ’ she said . |
| 21 | You 're going back after the normal four days , are n't you , Taff ? ’ |
| 22 | Through the wide forward unopening windows there was a riveting view of the rails stretching ahead , signals shining green in the distance , trees flashing back at a useful seventy miles an hour . |
| 23 | We have a list of murders stretching back over the last two centuries for which you are responsible . ’ |