Example sentences of "[v-ing] back over [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking back over previous years , Mr Stevens found that the more poor countries produce , the less they earn . |
| 2 | Looking back over some lectures I gave in the early 1980s , I note that the division between the schools which could raise money and those which could not was even then causing me concern . |
| 3 | Looking back over this chapter I am struck by the dreadful pitfalls which seem to beset every step which the sociologist might contemplate taking in documentary research . |
| 4 | Looking back over this year 's first round matches , obviously Germany 's defeat in Rio by Brazil , amid what can only be described as typical South American frenzy and excitement , was the biggest shock and one which might even lead to repercussions not only by the ITF about crowd behaviour in some parts of the world but also from within the disgruntled German camp . |
| 5 | Looking back over this chronicle of destruction we are struck by Shakespeare 's revelation of the unsuspected depths of evil connected with hypocrisy . |
| 6 | Looking back over this early venture , it is easy enough to see in it the seeds of what was to come . |
| 7 | Looking back over this period most farm workers view the introduction of the tractor and the combine harvester as representing a decisive break in the hitherto orderly pace of agricultural change — and in many respects this is undoubtedly what has occurred . |
| 8 | I feel as if I have come to the end of a long list of jobs dating back over several months . |
| 9 | Why should the people of Lambeth be subjected to savage bills because their local authority fails to collect rents , the community charge , and even outstanding rates arrears going back over many years ? |
| 10 | Going back over previous months ' editions , I found the following : |
| 11 | With an illustrious past stretching back over more than a century and with no fewer than 30 Championships behind them the challenge for Yorkshire cricket in 1992 is to find a team that can live up to the tradition . |
| 12 | He uses a study of past periods of warming stretching back over several millions of years to confirm his view that more carbon dioxide to nourish plants , more warmth , more rainfall , more arable land as the frontiers of ice are pushed back will mean bigger harvests . |
| 13 | This is perhaps not unexpected , given their reverence for the past and their long tradition of scholarship and collecting stretching back over several millennia . |