Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] [v-ing] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said that the official in charge of antiquities at the Nasiriya Museum had received from the Americans a ‘ very small number ’ of terracotta objects dating back to the dawn of mankind and the Babylonian period , some of which had only recently been broken . |
| 2 | Much of its stealth comes from a design that minimises the chance of radar waves bouncing back the way they came . |
| 3 | Young Outdoor Action readers heading back to school will at least have something to look forward to — outdoor activity lessons . |
| 4 | And in the library there is a more recent collection of men 's pin-up books dating back to the Fifties . |
| 5 | No , there would not be any fishing boats going back out . |
| 6 | Some harbour resentments going back many years , which only come to the surface when a crisis causes the couple to come for counselling . |
| 7 | Layers of management have been stripped out and restrictive labour practices dating back to the Red Clyde era have disappeared . |
| 8 | The Army was more ambivalent : while welcoming the end of National Service and the return to ‘ real soldiering ’ with a regular army , the Army Council looked askance at the loss of 51 regiments , 17 of which were infantry battalions with battle honours stretching back over the centuries . |
| 9 | It was in the summer of 1932 that Duke paddled out alone into the biggest swell he had seen in his life , with a stiff offshore from the Koolau mountains pinning back the peaks , which he estimated at thirty feet , as big as the storm waves off Kaena Point . |
| 10 | Be aware that bankside vegetation is being used for nesting by moorhens , swans and coots and that sandy banks will be the home for sand martins arriving back from Africa . |
| 11 | Others , being anciently established , also have manuscript materials going back to the days of their foundation in the Middle Ages or the Tudor period . |
| 12 | The sluice gates holding back a bottomless reservoir of blood are creaking open , spattering the country with thick , viscous dollops . |
| 13 | He had put his anorak on again , no sign of the gun , no bulge as he climbed in and we started on up the mountain road , windscreen wipers slashing back and forth . |
| 14 | She was also aware that MI5 and Scotland Yard held fat files on the ‘ close friends ’ of her children and their spouses , including tape recordings of incriminating telephone conversations dating back at least to Princess Anne 's affair with a royal detective . |
| 15 | Begun in 1789 and finishes in 1824 , it replaced the original University buildings dating back to 1583 . |
| 16 | The Fletchers had a flat on the first floor of one of the fine period houses dating back to the bad old days of the monarchy and the Iron Guard . |
| 17 | These seem to have had their fears that the flood gates holding back university collections are now opening confirmed , as Edinburgh University announced last month that it was proposing to sell a sculpture by Adrian de Vries or a Ruisdael landscape , bequeathed by Sir James Torrie , to help put right a deficit permitted over the last few years by a Treasurer who has since resigned . |
| 18 | However , the issue was decided by the Civil Engineers , who conducted clearance tests at very short notice , and found that most station platforms would need the platform edging stones setting back . |
| 19 | With his wife Glenys choking back tears beside him , he added : ‘ I naturally feel a strong sense of disappointment , not so much for myself for I am fortunate , very fortunate , in my personal life . |
| 20 | Twenty thousand Ski Americans going back to their valley farms , after an evening infected with urban sleaze . |
| 21 | By 1765 , when de Broglie submitted his plan to King Louis XV , the French government already had in their archives detailed invasion schemes going back for at least a century . |
| 22 | Moving now to lesser developed countries , a general review of conservation programmes of Algeria , Tunisia and Morocco ( Bensalem in FAO 1977a : 159 ) concludes that ‘ soil conservation practices in North Africa have been focussed mainly on corrective mechanical measures , which in most cases have been insufficient or not suitably adapted to counter erosion problems ’ He goes on , like so many other commentators , about the lack of applied knowledge of both the appropriate technical options ( e.g. the successional capacity of the native plant cover which can be used to rehabilitate degraded land ) , but also , very significantly , ‘ there are soil conservation and dune afforestation schemes dating back thirty years , some succeeding and others failing , but without explanation of why ’ ( p. 159 ) . |
| 23 | Given that suspended particulates have been the subject of pollution control policies dating back to the nineteenth century , it is not surprising that total emissions and average urban concentrations of particulates have decreased markedly during the past few decades . |
| 24 | Located on the grand Keizers canal , this delightful hotel is set in two beautifully restored merchant houses dating back to 1630 . |
| 25 | This important collection increases the Museum 's geographical and subject coverage and comprises of approximately 70,000 images including views of locomotives , rolling stock , moving trains , railway architecture and civil engineering subjects dating back to the early 1900's . |
| 26 | In October he announced negotiations to review all civil service wage and career structures dating back to 1946 . |
| 27 | This Easter weekend proves it yet again , with traffic queues stretching back from the West Country halfway to London and Birmingham . |
| 28 | The match was a little disappointing , mainly due to West Ham using 3 central defenders ( plus the two full backs ) , and basically all the midfield players dropping back . |
| 29 | In the second half of August , the Army of Africa pressed towards Madrid , with the Republican forces falling back all the way . |
| 30 | He also has a collection of Rentokil news letters going back to his early days which made for fascinating reading after dinner . |