Example sentences of "back [adv] far [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from the personal attacks , its indictment of her political and ideological ideas went back as far as 1978 when she published her novel Await . |
| 2 | Such claims in fact go back as far as 1926 , but it was with Thom 's careful measurement of many stone circles and alignments in Britain and Brittany that a scientific analysis of the problem could be attempted . |
| 3 | The man , who had winched his seat back as far as it would go , lay beside her , staring up through the sunroof at the sky which was now a pure and empty blue . |
| 4 | He never hit a bad shot off the tee ; it just did n't come back as far as he thought it would . |
| 5 | Based in Bristol , Sun Life has a history that stretches back as far as 1810 . |
| 6 | In a review of studies on the ability of the older worker to learn , going back as far as the 1920s , it was concluded that changes in learning ability with age are generally small . |
| 7 | Close your eyes , inhale and bend back as far as you can ( without any discomfort ) thrusting your arms back . |
| 8 | The Ness is shallow and peaceful , and the murmur of its flowing falls plaintively on the ear , in sympathy with the song of the birds , and the summer tintings of the trees , and the musings of those who seem to love each turning in the paths ; while the waters of the rapids of Niagara make the onlooker hold back his breath , and keep back as far as possible from the wild leaping of the swift-rushing waters . |
| 9 | Your working life can go back as far as April 1936 , but not further . |
| 10 | The suspicion that viruses might cause cancer can be traced back as far as 1911 . |
| 11 | Use of more than one line to steer a kite dates back as far as the 1820s when George Peacock pioneered use of kites for traction of carriages and a boat.He utilised variable tension on two lines to elevate or depress peg-top kites successfully enough to transport as many as 16 lads to a cricket match , including his grandson , W.G.Grace the famous cricketer . |
| 12 | It could date back as far as the middle of the ninth century and was closely associated with the later castle . |
| 13 | The eating of human flesh and the drinking of human blood in order to absorb the qualities of the deceased are practices which seem to date back as far as humankind itself . |
| 14 | There was one kid , however , who did n't move back as far as the rest of his row , so I politely asked him to get in line . |
| 15 | His chair was tilted back as far as it would go . |
| 16 | Few of them , however , go back as far as 1880 , though historical reconstruction can often supplement them . |
| 17 | This trade-off was based on the original observations by Professor A. W. Phillips of the relationship between the rate of change of money wage rates and unemployment levels over long periods of time going back as far as 1861 . |
| 18 | Once a Roman colony , Rimini 's history stretches back as far as 268 BC . |
| 19 | Three more went back as far as Bronze Age Greece — amethyst , onyx and rock-crystal . |
| 20 | According to Divisional Court , however , the literal approach overlooks the discretion which the justices have to do ‘ what they consider to be just in the circumstances : a discretion which the court traces back as far as Kinnis v. |
| 21 | And this was just one of a number of sites , known only to Halim and his team , where the early Chinese mariners had buried their dead together , as was their custom , with porcelain some of which had been fired in the imperial kilns of the Sung and Ming dynasties and dated back as far as the eleventh century . |
| 22 | None of those back as far as grandparents and issue of grandparents so uncles and aunts cousins . |
| 23 | For example , Bracey ( 1958 ) in a study of 375 Somerset parishes found that , in general , the more remote and less well serviced parishes were those with the worst and most persistent depopulation , and findings like this only encouraged the further development of theories of settlement concentration in the 1960s although these can also be traced back as far as 1918 , when Peake ( 1918 ) advocated equally-spaced villages with populations of between 1,000 and 1,500 people . |
| 24 | The curtains were drawn back as far as they would go , and whenever she looked up the green-brown panorama confronted her and the pale bowl of sky . |
| 25 | When the handicap player copies the picture and ‘ freezes ’ his movement , he might as well only swing back as far as that . |
| 26 | He slipped the matchbox under the netting and pushed it back as far as it would go . |
| 27 | Another area used in attack is the ball of the foot , whose effectiveness depends upon the toes being bent back as far as possible . |
| 28 | The origins of this philosophy go back as far as 1970 when Shell and the Nature Conservancy first devised a competition aimed at encouraging young people to come up with ideas to conserve their local environment . |
| 29 | So Alice refused all offers of alcohol from the solicitous hostess in First Class , rejected the proffered magazines , donned her eyepads , and lay back as far as possible in what the airline liked to call her armchair . |
| 30 | It would be worth you paying to have the tree cut back as far as S * but no further . |