Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb -s] back to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The work of solicitors goes back to the 15th century and as time has gone on they have become increasingly influential . |
| 2 | Perhaps the DNA of the mule germ-cells mutates back to the parental forms or , more speculatively , as Taylor and Short suggest , borrows chromatin ( chromosomal material ) from a neighbouring cell . |
| 3 | STORY : how Meaulnes gets back to the lost domain . |
| 4 | But the association between the two Banks dates back to the founding of the Royal in 1727 when Andrew Drummond acquired stock in the new banking enterprise . |
| 5 | The reputation of Vertus 's richly perfumed still red wines goes back to the fourteenth century ; in the seventeenth century these wines were favoured by William of Orange . |
| 6 | Ablaze with brightly hued foliage , rolling hills , jagged cliffs and tiny fishing villages , this regions harks back to the Mother Country , with the added attraction of all the diversity that America can offer . |
| 7 | Like other major echinoderm groups the geological record of the sea urchins goes back to the Ordovician . |
| 8 | Henry Maine 's insistence that there is a radical distinction between the status relationships of early , kinship-based , societies and the contract relationships of " modern " societies goes back to the 1860s . |
| 9 | The founding of the White Lions dates back to the time of the bitter civil war with the Dark Elves when Caledor the First was recalled from hunting in Chrace to become the new Phoenix King . |
| 10 | The first indisputable evidence of the use of nailed horseshoes goes back to the ninth century . |