Example sentences of "go back to the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Going back to the old trams . |
| 32 | In the morning , though our route lay the other way , I insisted on going back to the old station for one more look . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | … Trouble with going back to the old days , the [ agency ] was more or less a family concern . |
| 35 | But see we 're going back to the old seasons now . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | Probably , someone you would disapprove of I did n't know whether remember no probably not it goes back to the middle ages . |
| 42 | ( 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 . |
| 43 | The papal banner , the vexillum sancti Petri , goes back to the eleventh century , perhaps to Alexander II ( 1061 – 1073 ) . |
| 44 | Now , however , Freud expands that concept as well and interestingly enough he goes back to the first term he used for repression . |
| 45 | This is a process which goes back to the two questions raised on page 66 : |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | The recorded history of the church goes back to the mid-12th century , and in this study the Author describes church life in Foleshill from the outbreak of World War Two , right through to the restoration of the Old Church ( as it is known locally ) . |
| 48 | The history of the perehera goes back to the second century AD , when King Gajabuha won a great victory against his foes in southern India , the Tamils , chasing them back across the narrow strait into their homeland . |
| 49 | It goes back to the second world war , really . |
| 50 | The work of solicitors goes back to the 15th century and as time has gone on they have become increasingly influential . |
| 51 | Lewes has only had a mayor or two for a hundred years , and so its ceremonial is somewhat new , but one was able to draw on the traditions in places like Rye , where it goes back to the thirteenth/fourteenth centuries , and erm I used some of the phraseologies out of sixteenth century Rye documents and so on in my Lewes mayoralty on these sorts of ceremonial occasions , and introduced some of the ceremonial which I knew was authentic to mayoralties elsewhere in Sussex . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | We 'd want a good description to make sure the right property goes back to the right owner . |
| 54 | When the subordinate process terminates , control goes back to the calling processes . |
| 55 | 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 ) . |
| 56 | When one goes back to the real time in which we live , however , there will still appear to be singularities . |
| 57 | The story goes back to the major earthquake , magnitude 7 on the Richter scale , which rocked Greece in February 1981 . |
| 58 | The use of inspectors as a form of central supervision goes back to the Poor Law reform of 1834 . |
| 59 | His inspiration goes back to the early idea of Charles Frank , plus the fact that muon catalysed fusion was observed in 1956 by accident and the interest has grown in fits and starts ever since . |
| 60 | The work of cataloguing goes back to the early years of Italian unification in the late nineteenth century when the first photographs were taken of archaeological sites and of celebrated pictures and monuments . |