Example sentences of "goes back [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A specialist in failure analysis in that unit is Tony Jones , whose involvement in AIB investigations also goes back over many years . |
| 2 | I suppose the expression rolls off the tongue — the three As — and , of course , the meeting goes back over one hundred years . |
| 3 | The new suit goes back over old ground , again alleging that AMD broke copyright agreements by using Intel 's microcode in the new chip . |
| 4 | The most important , perhaps , is freedom from the restrictive grasp of the ‘ all together now ’ class teaching system that goes back to Victorian times . |
| 5 | A lot of times a lot of times it it it goes back to normal . |
| 6 | A special relationship goes back to normal |
| 7 | My opposition goes back to 1979 and to the work done in the Department of the Environment when I was in it on the production of the 1981 Green Paper . |
| 8 | The ruin of KING DAVID 'S TOWER goes back to 1367 , but in the wars between Scotland and England most of the earlier buildings were destroyed . |
| 9 | The history goes back to 1938 , when Mexico took over US and British oil interests and reached a peak in 1975 ; eighty-three acts of expropriation of foreign firms in twenty-eight countries ( UNCTC , 1988a : table XIX-I ) . |
| 10 | First of all Kuwait as a country goes back to seventeen fifty . |
| 11 | Now erm all this really goes back to eighteen seventy one . |
| 12 | The oldest title goes back to 1350 . |
| 13 | The African disposal closes a chapter in the company 's history which goes back to 1925 , and cuts Bonar 's last links with the traditional clothing textile market . |
| 14 | I advise him that with unlimited spending , with arbitrary revaluations , with a rates proposal that goes back to 1973 — |
| 15 | ‘ My love of English football goes back to 1973 when I was with Leigh . |
| 16 | The company 's interest in pictures goes back to 1976 when it established its Fine Art Foundation to sponsor contemporary ( particularly young ) artists . |
| 17 | Just as the new Spurgeon's/Oasis venture goes back to Baptist roots , so do the organisers of ‘ Breakthrough 2000 ’ believe they are going back to roots . |
| 18 | Its history goes back to Saxon times , and it contains several interesting historical buildings , and a peaceful marina , from which you can take a river cruise . |
| 19 | 11 ) called Corinth and Chalkis the handcuffs of Greece , and the importance of Corinth to Macedon , which this comparison indicates , goes back to 338 when Philip II made Corinth the physical centre of his new Greek league ( though whether the meeting-chamber has been identified on the ground is disputed ) . |
| 20 | Wenger ( 1984 ) identified that the death of a sibling or friends may be harder to get over than the death of a spouse , perhaps because the longevity of the relationship goes back to earliest years . |
| 21 | He was Honorary Treasurer , 1984–85 and his membership of the Executive Committee as a representative of the Belfast Committee goes back to 1981 . |
| 22 | The oldest known horoscope goes back to 410 BC when Babylonia was part of the Persian empire . |
| 23 | The strong tradition of autonomy which goes back to 600 B.C. survived the guns of Louis XIV and turned a marching song composed at Strasbourg into La Marseillaise . |
| 24 | Goes back to Homeric times . ’ |
| 25 | The story of fluorescent lighting goes back to 1930 when research began at the GEC research laboratories in Wembley . |
| 26 | The existence today of a large Serbian minority in southern Croatia goes back to this period . |
| 27 | The only , a the residents have , are of course , once again this goes back to this , the problems that we 're facing with the er local government reorganization debate , are at a loss to do er erm to find that the on-street parking provision is the county 's responsibility , off-street parking provision is the district 's responsibility and actions by , by the district are in fact causing problems for us with this . |
| 28 | Now in fact what that means for me is that actually we 're all programmers — we always have been — but we have n't been used to explaining it in quite the way that computers need us to explain it , and of course that goes back to this question of understanding English that we were talking about last time . |
| 29 | Richard Parker Landscapes Colour Around Us , The Art Gallery , Queensway , Billingham ( until June 27 ) IN what is effectively a full-scale retrospective with work that goes back to 1958 , Richard Parker shares with us his great love of landscape . |
| 30 | The tax saga — and the would-be retroactivity — goes back to 1985 . |