Example sentences of "[verb] back to first " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this involves going back to first principles , then however removed they may be from our present experience , we have a responsibility to go back . |
| 2 | He first demonstrated his taste for going back to first principles as a student at Brown University in the late 1960s . |
| 3 | change back to first colour and knit about 10 rows . |
| 4 | Their approach is to go back to first principles , looking at the constraints that link objects and events in the real world to what happens in the retinal image and then looking for rules that can be used unambiguously to recode retinal events in terms of the outside world ( Poggio , Torre , and Koch 1985 ; Ullman 1986 ) . |
| 5 | If the essential qualities needed for reinventing health care under Mr Clinton are three — willingness to go back to first principles , faith in political action , and above all , a superhuman command of detail — then Mr Magaziner has spent his whole life in training for his current job . |
| 6 | But having to go back to first principles proved a decisive advantage . |
| 7 | The researchers went back to first principles by making a detailed mechanical analysis of Diatryma 's head . |
| 8 | But it is easier to cope with these pressures if we go back to first principles . |
| 9 | But instead of a square heel , or even a radically smoothed-off heel similar to the Revell acoustic we recently reviewed , Andy Manson has gone back to first principles and has ended up virtually doing away with the heel altogether . |
| 10 | The instinctive urge to acquire a stake in the country , to get back to first principles and become , once again , master of his own fate , becomes ever more apparent as our top-heavy , complex society lurches from crisis to crisis . |
| 11 | INTEL P5 MICROPROCESSOR PUT BACK TO FIRST QUARTER 1993 |