Example sentences of "look back [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 And it , kind of faces both ways , it , it looks back to the early period of the development of Freud 's thought that we 've already spoken about , and its beginnings back in the eighteen nineties , and in certain other respects , it looks forward , to the kind of revolution that was going to occur after World War Two .
2 This old way , ‘ With an alien people clutching their gods ’ , looks back to the savage world which Eliot had been exploring , the world trapped in the ritual of ‘ birth , and copulation , and death ’ .
3 As the Docklands beer festival fades from view , Martyn Cornell looks back at the sad demise of brewing in the Cockney heartland
4 Executive Support Manager Allan Paterson looks back over the TOP Programme as it has progressed at Hunterston and considers some of its achievements .
5 Looking back at the stormy relationship of a few years ago , he realised how much she had mellowed .
6 Looking back at the bell-box Sorvino was tempted to find a half-brick and try to put it out , but that would be fun and not duty .
7 Tsu Ma turned , looking back at the young man .
8 But by looking back at the archaic phase of Greek history and forward to later autocrats , as we have done with the Sicilian tyrants , we can remind ourselves that the democratic interludes of Greek history were not merely short but untypical — in Syracuse , Macedon , Cyrene and satrapal Asia Minor one-man rule was normal for much of the period 479–323 BC .
9 He levelled off about ten feet above the ground and banked as he climbed , looking back at the red flag .
10 So , too , the third of them , Stevens , who stood to one side , looking back at the wall-length window and its view of the great circle of the spaceport 's landing apron .
11 Looking back at the tangled web of confused events we can see that the answer had already emerged .
12 Looking back on the scant evidence we have to assume that , along with the guilty , some innocent men and women went to their deaths , despite their confessions .
13 It is difficult to believe in the political naivete of judges , but Sir John Donaldson , president of the NIRC , looking back on the short history of that court , has expressed views which are bewildering in their ingenuousness .
14 Self-satisfied spokesmen for the bourgeoisie were inclined to overstress the improvement , though none would deny what Sir Robert Giffen ( 1837–1900 ) , looking back on the British half-century before 1883 , tactfully called ‘ a residuum still unimproved ’ , nor that the improvement ‘ even when measured by a low ideal , is far too small ’ , nor that ‘ no one can contemplate the condition of the masses of the people without desiring something like a revolution for the better ’ .
15 So , Slon , how do you feel about Zagrat , looking back from the freak time ? ’ asked the bimbo interviewer .
16 In the week after the election we asked our panel to look back Over the whole campaign and tell us how useful they had found television , the press , and other sources for : ( 1 ) helping decide what party leaders and personalities were really like ; ( 2 ) keeping them informed about the issues ; and ( 3 ) helping them decide how to vote .
17 He left the convent with Amsterdam , not turning to look back at the ancient pile .
18 It may be questioned whether this change achieves very much of a practical nature since ( a ) one still needs to look back at the common law of detinue to determine what constitutes the new form of conversion and ( b ) there still survive two torts of interference with property which have a considerable overlap with conversion , i.e .
19 Fei Yen reined in her horse and turned to look back down the steep slope beneath the beacon .
20 The hon. Gentleman should look back at the Labour party 's record in government before he starts to criticise ours .
21 He did n't look back at the sudden commotion behind him and , when a shadow passed over him , merely gibbered weakly and tried to burrow into the horse 's mane .
22 Rachaela made herself look back at the white face of her child .
23 His concerns are moral and religious , and in certain respects , therefore , although they appear to be out of line with the literary culture of Sidonius and his sixth-century followers , they do look back to the moral response which met the first wave of the barbarian invasions .
24 When I look back on the long friendship , I realize that I need not have had certain misgivings about troubling Eliot or taking up his time — misgivings due to temperamental diffidence rather than to genuine modesty , I am afraid — because he was both generous of his time and solicitous about the welfare of those in whom lie took an interest .
25 I think secondly erm whichever country , and you do look back to your roots , and we for better or for worse here look back to the great public school headmaster of a century ago and I still think people want that kind of dynamic drive , that entrepreneurial drive , and who 's to say they 're wrong ?
26 They always look back to the old smokestack industries .
27 Crossing the bridge , look back at the romantic view of the palaces backing on to the canal .
28 I look back at the old woman , marvelling at Enid and Philip for finding her interesting enough to talk about .
29 If we look back at the previous example of the combustion of methane , we see that the enthalpy term was far larger than the entropy term .
30 She looked back on the whole expanse of land
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