Example sentences of "[noun pl] look back to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas the left might base itself on the thoughts of Karl Marx , the libertarians look back to Adam Smith and an extreme ideology of laissez-faire capitalism . |
| 2 | His policies looked back to the more aggressive activities of his father ; he fought the Alans , and he attacked Arles . |
| 3 | Christians , both Catholic and Protestant , have argued thus , as have Muslim scholars looking back to a golden age when Islamic thinkers were at the forefront of the physical sciences . |
| 4 | The Poles looked back to two periods of greatness — the kingdom of the Piasts , which disintegrated in the twelfth century , and that of the Jagiellonians under whose rule Poland 's frontiers were extended from the Baltic to the Black Sea . |
| 5 | In a handbill of 1818 the cotton weavers looked back to earnings of 15s 9d ( 78p ) a week in 1802 – 3 , which had been " pretty near upon a par with other Mechanicks and we maintained our rank in Society " . |