Example sentences of "which [verb] back [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The oldest tradition , which goes back to the contemporary historian John Foxe , claims that the queen and her Protestant councillors had intended to introduce a settlement based on the 1552 Prayer Book , but were later forced to make some concessions in the Catholic direction because of the implacable opposition of the bishops and some of the lay peers in the House of Lords . |
| 2 | This is a process which goes back to the two questions raised on page 66 : |
| 3 | Doubling in Dostoevsky , which goes back to the very beginning , to Mr Devushkin living and not living in the kitchen , which has its post-Siberian developments in the underground man 's now-you-see-me-now-you-don't ‘ flashing ’ of his consciousness , in Raskolnikov 's and Svidrigailov 's different ways of being among but not with us and Porfiry 's torture tune of ‘ There 's nothing here , precisely nothing , perhaps absolutely nothing ’ — doubling takes on a new form in The Possessed , closer to the I/We/They/Everybody/Nobody shifts of The House of the Dead than anything else before it or to come . |
| 4 | J. S. Raworth , who was a director of both , invented a system of regenerative control , by which a car descending a steep hill , could use its motors as brakes and generate current which passed back into the overhead wires to be used by other cars ascending . |
| 5 | Yet the point , it 's a question really , which refers back to the last programme summary three , of the , the ninety four , ninety five base budget . |
| 6 | But today , realizing the problems she might have in controlling her mount let alone in staying on should it prop at a hedge or peck on landing , she decided discretion was the better part of valour and shortening her left rein swung Hullabaloo away in the other direction to take what was known as the Funks ' Run , which ran round a long ridge of elms , across the brook at its narrowest point , and then over a good two miles of open ground , with only one reasonable sized open ditch and hedge to be jumped at the bottom of the dip before a long run uphill which led back to the last of the Vale hedges . |
| 7 | CHAIRMAN Sir Peter Parker was doing his best , but the 1980s opened with much the same worries of insecurity over government policy , lack of investment , and working practices which harked back to the old company rules . |
| 8 | UNCED itself , however , was launched as a result of a UN General Assembly resolution passed in December 1989 [ see p. 37433 ] , which referred back to the 1987 report of the World Commission on Environment and Development chaired by the then Norwegian Prime Minister , Gro Harlem Brundtland [ see pp. 35227-29 ] . |
| 9 | I met a teacher recently , one of our best , the sort of charismatic individual with a ready smile , a mind full of anarchic ideas , a love of literature and an effortless but much practised classroom skill which bounces back from the interested eyes 0& his students . |
| 10 | But it has a lyrical depth which reaches back to the great black music of the Seventies and artists like Stevie Wonder and Curtis Mayfield , while touching on Steely Dan , Elvis Costello and Joy Division . |
| 11 | National Express , which stormed back into the black in line with its own forecasts at the time of flotation in December , added a penny to 192p . |
| 12 | In Manchester , the gangs were known as ‘ Scuttlers ’ — a word which went back to the 1880s — and their gang fights and rowdyism as ‘ Scuttling ’ or ‘ Scuttles ’ . |
| 13 | As such , Hitler had become in a way the projection of national aspirations to greatness which reached back into the imperial ambitions of the Wilhelmine era , and which in added strength under Nazism had found an echo among much of the German population , not least as a compensation for a far greyer reality . |
| 14 | In the early decades of this century the diverse private welfare organizations ( freie Verbände ) began to firm up their organizational structures which resulted in the founding around 1920 of the major welfare organizations which dominate the German welfare landscape today : Side by side with the Protestant ‘ Innere Mission ’ and the Catholic ‘ Caritas ’ , which date back to the nineteenth century , and the Jewish central welfare association ( Zentralwohlfahrtsstelle der Deutschen Juden , 1917 ) there developed the secular welfare associations of the labour movement ( Arbeiterwohlfahrt , 1919 ) — despite the socialist principle of the primacy of public welfare ! — of the German Red Cross , and of the independent hospitals and nursing institutions ( today called the ‘ Deutscher Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband ’ ) . |
| 15 | Certainly those responsible for some of the decisions that have lead to outright closures could learn a lot by looking at these institutions which date back to the nineteenth century and earlier and will no doubt continue to survive . |
| 16 | There are three churches in the village including All Saints , parts of which date back to the 15th century . |
| 17 | In his review of organism and ecosystem as geographical models Stoddart ( 1967b , p. 523 ) showed how Tansley 's concept broadened the scope of ecology beyond the purely biological content and gave formal expression to a variety of concepts covering habitat and biome which date back to the late nineteenth century . |
| 18 | He will reveal in tonight 's BBC1 Panorama programme that he is worried about facilities at the Berkshire plant run by private contractors since April which date back to the early days of the nuclear age . |
| 19 | While researching the island 's past , Gilli discovered culinary traditions which date back to the Ancient Greeks . |
| 20 | The no-arbitrage band is ( S - D ) ( 1 + r ) - Sr ( l - f ) >or= F >or= ( S - D ) ( 1 + r ) , which can be rewritten as S ( 1 + rf ) - D ( 1 + r ) |
| 21 | To begin with , there was the accumulated pre-war experience , which stretched back into the nineteenth century , of labour being the cheap factor of production — an attitude reflected in the slow development of cost-accounting in Britain . |
| 22 | A popular Greek saying is ‘ Know Thyself ’ , which dates back to the ancient Greeks . |
| 23 | We took them to lunch at the Bull Inn which dates back to the 15th century , and afterwards explored the local market . |
| 24 | They hope to raise £1 million for the upkeep of the Manor which dates back to the 13th century . |
| 25 | Herriot 's Hotel and restaurant at Hawes has a price tag of £295,000 , while Kirkbymoorside 's George and Dragon , which dates back to the 13th century , is for sale at £400,000 . |
| 26 | Herriot 's Hotel and restaurant at Hawes has a price tag of £295,000 , while Kirkbymoorside 's George and Dragon , which dates back to the 13th century , is for sale at £400,000 . |
| 27 | The opera season opens here in July and August and , for those with a penchant for history , the old Roman settlement of Ascoli Piceno nearby offers many folklore events and a grand-costumed tournament in August which dates back to the 1300s . |
| 28 | Scott , Hogg , Lockhart and other literary stalwarts are reputed to have frequented this old hunting inn , part of which dates back to the 18th century . |
| 29 | The café , which dates back to the last century , has been maintained intact , at least in its decor . |
| 30 | The beautiful crown spire caps the historic High Kirk of Edinburgh , which dates back to the fifteenth century . |