Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [v-ing] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The buyer will customarily ask for accounts ranging back for three years in respect of the activities of the management company . |
| 2 | Earlier rate cuts are beginning to filter through the economy and the retail trade is making optimistic noises about shoppers coming back to the High Street . |
| 3 | LIVERPOOL 'S Patent Office , with records of inventions dating back to 1617 , is raising its profile among businesses as a valuable source of research and development material . |
| 4 | As a matter of principle , the bank in such circumstances should not be entitled to rely on the transaction and this is the view which has been taken by a series of authorities going back to the beginning of this century . |
| 5 | An example of presentation infidelity , uncovered in our survey , was where companies showed a series of columns sloping back towards the right away from the common baseline of the X axis . |
| 6 | It is argued that the breadth and depth of the market in small company shares is suffering , particularly as the volume of trading in smaller company shares has dropped since the crash of October 1987 as investors have fled to blue chip shares , and the number of brokers cutting back on their small firms business has increased . |
| 7 | It also has a very fine collection of clocks dating back to 1658 . |
| 8 | We were able to confirm the histories of families going back to the 19th century . |
| 9 | We have a list of murders stretching back over the last two centuries for which you are responsible . ’ |
| 10 | Of course , stories of ex-smokers drifting back to the fold are commonplace . |
| 11 | Before that there was a string of flops stretching back over years ( ‘ Police Academy 4 ’ and ‘ King Solomon 's Mines ’ would have ended most careers ) . |
| 12 | It was a culmination of measures going back to the middle of the nineteenth century , but more particularly government experience since the 1890s. and above all , a shift in attitudes towards State-provided housing . |
| 13 | I have many memories of Eton : services in College Chapel , especially in winter when the lights were lit and I listened to the massed singing of a favourite hymn ; the Headmaster , Dr Alington , an Olympian figure in scarlet gown , taking " absence " on the chapel steps ; the Fourth of June , a festival peculiar to Eton , and fireworks bursting over the river ; the Field Game on winter afternoons while mist crept across the grounds ; the lamps in the High Street and crowds of boys hurrying back to their houses before " lock-up " . |
| 14 | I paid a Hackney second-hand dealer £100 a few years ago for seven black plastic bags of documents dating back to the seventeenth century — the contents of tin trunks removed from the basement of a firm of solicitors . |
| 15 | It was proposed that the students of Torcy 's academy should be employed in making " a more complete and exact collection of peace-treaties " , with an accompanying commentary ; while the largest such enterprise hitherto , the Corps universel diplomatique du droit des gens of J. Dumont de Carlscroon ( twelve volumes : Amsterdam — The Hague , 1726 ) , an assembly of documents reaching back to the age of Charlemagne and drawn from sources all over Europe , was designed mainly as a help in policy-making and a kind of portable archive for the use of diplomats . |
| 16 | With a sniff a hyaena can perceive not only the here and now but , simultaneously , a whole series of events stretching back into the past . |
| 17 | I feel as if I have come to the end of a long list of jobs dating back over several months . |
| 18 | Proud of being a member of a long line of parson–naturalists stretching back to John Ray and Gilbert White [ qq.v. ] , he saw his contributions to science as an extension of his work as a priest . |
| 19 | Yet disease remains a big killer and the deluge of wheat and maize has depressed prices for farmers struggling back to their fields . |
| 20 | Set in six acres of parkland , Ayton Hall is an elegant 19th-century house with foundations dating back to 1281 . |
| 21 | From the 1966 census , but with analyses pushing back to 1961 , several major studies have attempted to use a wide range of census data grouped in new and more functional ways to depict the spatial characteristics of the British population . |
| 22 | To understand the meaning of survival , stand beneath a maidenhair tree ( Ginkgo biloba ) or a dawn redwood ( Metasequoia glyptostoboides ) ; both are well represented in Trust gardens and both are ‘ living fossils ’ with pedigrees stretching back to the age of the dinosaurs . |
| 23 | A delightful village pub with traditions going back to the eighteenth-century . |
| 24 | It certainly begins to seem as though the materialist philosophy of the last few decades in the West was a myth just like any other , now that science is getting so weird , what with particles travelling back in time , and the fantastic strangeness of the new cosmology and chaos theory ( all those pretty Mandelbrot sets , and stuff about butterflies in China causing storms over the Atlantic ties in perfectly with the New Spirituality ) . |
| 25 | Part of a coffee grinder is also understood to have been found in the house along with newspapers dating back to the beginning of May . |
| 26 | The Pepperers was one of the oldest guilds in London with records dating back to 1180 . |
| 27 | One of the country 's foremost insurance underwriters , with roots dating back to 1720 and currently handles assets exceeding £8,500 million , Guardian Royal Exchange has an excellent reputation for courteous and prompt service . |
| 28 | But it went on to slam British Rail for using ancient commuter trains with parts dating back to the steam age . |
| 29 | This is revealed in texts going back to about 2000 BC , notably in the ‘ Sumerian King List ’ which begins with a sequence of eight kings , presumably fabulous , whose reigns add up to a total of 241,200 years ! |
| 30 | It is said that the pattern is mentioned in records dating back to the fifth century BC , which is to say that it was known well before the Roman invasion . |