Example sentences of "back [prep] [art] time [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To obscure more recent failure , it was possible to dip back into the time when the championship-winning sides flowed . |
| 2 | Do the Bank want to go back to a time when a male official could not get married until he was earning £150 per annum and by the time he was earning that sum he was past having an interest in marriage . |
| 3 | In order to challenge this complex of interlocking polarities , Amalgamemnon goes back to a time when the two domains , though distinct , were not yet differentiated by separate modes of narrative , back to Herodotus , the first prose artist and ‘ the father of fibstory ’ ( 22,113 ) . |
| 4 | The custom of asking for permission to marry has less significance nowadays ; it harks back to the time when a father had control over his unmarried daughter 's money until a husband came along . |
| 5 | Perhaps it can be traced even deeper in the past — we can go back to the time when the woman first attracted the man whose child she will later bear , or to the onset of her menstruation , when her body signalled its readiness for pregnancy . |
| 6 | Rug-making in the Balkans can be traced back to the time when the peninsula was under the control of the Turkish empire . |
| 7 | We know very precisely the age at the top of the coral when it was uplifted and died and what we 've done is counted these bands back through hundreds of years , back to the time when the coral first started growing and that was in the year fifteen eighty three . |
| 8 | Jean-Claude 's went back to the time when the region was awash with oceans of rye , Otto 's to the time when the Demoiselles Tatin were still alive . |
| 9 | You could n't go back to the time when the great art critics like Bernard Berenson and Herbert Read reigned supreme , even if you wanted to . |
| 10 | Where a problem seems obviously more complex they suggest that the client makes an appointment with an adviser to come back at a time when the bureau is officially closed to the public . |