Example sentences of "go back to the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Talk is of household refuse trains going back to the moth-balled Gobowen to Nanbrynmawr line — from Manchester . |
| 2 | Going back to the apparent contradiction between this chapter and chapter 1 , we must consider this question of diachronism more carefully . |
| 3 | Charles of Blois was the candidate favoured by Philip VI , and Edward accordingly supported Montfort , offering him not only military assistance but also the earldom of Richmond , with which the Breton ducal family had a connection going back to the Norman Conquest . |
| 4 | It was peaceful more than frenetic , a mirage of slow dawns and sunsets going back to the fluted point people : humbling . |
| 5 | Channel 4 's comedy department has at last found the right format for a cabaret star — by going back to the innocent childhood of TV comedy . |
| 6 | Going back to the early thoughts of the RHA on the matter in the mid-1970s , it had been recognized that the reduction in the hospital populations meant that there would be competition for any savings between the hospitals themselves and district services . |
| 7 | Going , going back to the early days you mentioned that erm the dividend , the divi was quite important . |
| 8 | Birmingham had a tradition going back to the inter-war period for ‘ tough ’ and ‘ realistic ’ empirical research on the Soviet economy , which was unique among British universities . |
| 9 | ‘ I could try going back to the Steering Committee ’ he said ‘ and simply tell them what 's happened . |
| 10 | KEVIN McGARRITY is going back to the British Vauxhall Lotus championship — and back to the team he quit midway through last season . |
| 11 | Indeed , military effectiveness has long been argued in favour of the acceptability of new weapons however horrifying , going back to the British attempt to defend the use of ‘ dum-dum ’ bullets against ‘ savages ’ in the Colonies ( Best , 1980 , p. 162 ) . |
| 12 | That is why the concept of the safety case — a case going back to the very essentials of design — is so important . |
| 13 | Going back to the medical analogy , no matter what the atmosphere , if you are a strong , healthy patient you will survive whatever the environment throws at you . |
| 14 | I feel too tired to sleep so I play some Despot when I get home but my heart 's not in it and the Empire is still in a tattered-looking state after all the earlier disasters and I 'm almost wondering if I should start again but that would mean going back to the fucking dawn of civilisation and the temptation in Despot is always to swap PoV , which people who do n't know the game always think sounds sort of innocent , like some detail , but it is n't : you 're not just swapping point of View , you 're swapping your current Despotic power Level for something less , even if it 's a regional lord or other king or a general or royal relation close to the throne , and it is not to be done lightly because as soon as you renounce the current Despot 's PoV the computer takes over and it 's a smart fucking piece of software . |
| 15 | Going back to the old trams . |
| 16 | In the morning , though our route lay the other way , I insisted on going back to the old station for one more look . |
| 17 | I understand that it is possible , even at this late stage , that the review itself could be overturned by the refusal of France to agree the new allocation of seats and we 've already had an exchange on that , Mr Deputy Speaker , which indicates that whatever we decide today might actually be overthrown and overturned completely by the inability of the French to ratify their part of the arrangement , er the minister referred to it as a massive inconvenience , I suggest that if we have to resort to going back to the old boundaries to fight these elections and indeed the problems that that will cause for the selection of candidates as well , that that will be one of the greatest understatements that even this house has heard . |
| 18 | … Trouble with going back to the old days , the [ agency ] was more or less a family concern . |
| 19 | But see we 're going back to the old seasons now . |
| 20 | Yes , erm , going back to the original thing that brought this up , that we should descry people from using Nestlé 's products , erm , in fact implications will be quite wide , because they now own Rowntrees , and they own Cross and Blackwells , and they own all sorts of other companies . |
| 21 | And it it it 's called the fog index but the thing that 's interesting about it is that I 've got , I 've got some interesting examples of fog indexes erm and you 'll get people like Churchill who sometimes made speeches and their fog index is quite small you 're going to use this you know example and they might have a fog , fog index that 's fine and what Anne and I are talking about with say something like the Telegraph or the Times or whatever , might have a fog index that people but this is because Churchill was very clear , very concise and going back to the original point about , or some of the original points about this , and I was mak raising these issues earlier this evening one of the great sadnesses that I have is that , is that when I first went into journalism the tabloids as we call them were incredibly well written beautifully styled , well researched and okay they might have been punchier and shorter and everything else , compared to the turning up the er the , the Times or whatever , but they were well written and you might have had , if you can put the fog index test , test on it you might have had a fog index of say six or seven compared to eleven on the Telegraph story , but it was still full of clarity like to read . |
| 22 | Herodotus 's Histories and Aeschylus 's Agamemnon serve as touchstones for Brooke-Rose 's novel , for in going back to the classical period , it is able to return to the point at which these distinctions began to be associated with different ways of talking and writing attributed to fact and to fiction . |
| 23 | Hot cross buns , Simnel cake and Easter biscuits ( see recipes on page 60 ) contain currants and mixed spices that have been eaten at Lent since Elizabethan times , although their use goes back to the Middle Ages when only the rich could afford spice . |
| 24 | Probably , someone you would disapprove of I did n't know whether remember no probably not it goes back to the middle ages . |
| 25 | ( Koch 1985a , p. 149 ) Koch and others have stressed that because this conception of the gaze goes back to the Freudian idea of an originary bisexuality it therefore affords a better explanation of women 's actual viewing behaviour , e.g. their multiple identifications with either gender . |
| 26 | Support for such a fund goes back to the Evershed Committee in 1953 , which recommended that a fund should be available for actions at first instance and on appeal , certified by the Attorney-General as raising a question of law of exceptional public interest which it is in the public interest to clarify . |
| 27 | This central role for private property has a long history in European thought and goes back to the eighteenth-century notion of the social contract . |
| 28 | We 'd want a good description to make sure the right property goes back to the right owner . |
| 29 | When the subordinate process terminates , control goes back to the calling processes . |
| 30 | In the clinical literature , the word ‘ natural ’ is left undefined ( the medical description of this kind of shock goes back to the nineteenth-century discovery of ‘ hysteria ’ and its symptoms in women ) . |