Example sentences of "go back to the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were able to confirm the histories of families going back to the 19th century . |
| 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 | The popes , as bishops of Rome , had a " genealogy " going back to the first pope , the apostle Peter . |
| 6 | Now , going back to the first time Mahoney was shot . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The combination of bishopric and monastery was one of the main results of the tenth-century monastic revival , and it had tenuous threads going back to the seventh century . |
| 9 | Lanfranc could only hope that the papal Curia would come to recognize the substantial strength of this papally inspired practice of primacy going back to the seventh century . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It says , everything they 're doing , it says , is going back to the eighteenth century , when you hear about these Kath Catherine Cookson days , working for pennies and you ca n't get educated |
| 12 | But going back to the 1944 triptych , you called it a base for the Crucifixion . |
| 13 | ‘ I could try going back to the Steering Committee ’ he said ‘ and simply tell them what 's happened . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | Investigations in the temple of Aphrodite , after whom the city was named , have revealed evidence ofa long history for the cult of the goddess going back to the sixth century ac . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Scots Wha Hae , which some may claim is another emotional dirge , has tremendous credentials ( tune going back to the 14th century and words by our national bard ) . |
| 18 | erm And we 've already lost planes in the erm war so far , and we have only a limited number there , while going back to the last world war |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | going back to the same point again |
| 21 | When I 'm at a crossroads , if I find myself going back to the same place I had a happy encounter , I deliberately go the other way , so I do n't become a slave to habit . |
| 22 | In the morning , though our route lay the other way , I insisted on going back to the old station for one more look . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | That 's very interesting because we 're always going back to the earlier comment that , perhaps people like scientists , like sociologists are intelligent , but not in touch . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ( 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 . |
| 28 | The papal banner , the vexillum sancti Petri , goes back to the eleventh century , perhaps to Alexander II ( 1061 – 1073 ) . |
| 29 | Now , however , Freud expands that concept as well and interestingly enough he goes back to the first term he used for repression . |
| 30 | 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 . |