Example sentences of "[vb -s] back to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A 97 year old woman looks back to pre-First World War Vienna and an extraordinary life , even if a fair amount of it is fabricated . |
| 2 | The course , which crosses a narrow railway bridge and a major road , climbs from 160 feet above sea level to 368 feet , drops back to 303 feet , then climbs again to the finish which is 450 feet above sea level . |
| 3 | There appears to be a gimmick on the throttle causing it to idle at some 1200 rpm when cold , although it drops back to 600 rpm when hot . |
| 4 | TANDY HEADS BACK TO INTERNATIONAL ARENA |
| 5 | They tell a story that reaches back to neolithic man some 5,000 years ago , to the Roman occupation , to the many religious and military influences and the continuing threat of invasion over the years . |
| 6 | Spinoza harks back to ancient philosophy , and away from the Christian tradition , in seeing the virtues which ethics seeks to inculcate as essentially the qualities we require if we are to have personally fulfilled lives . |
| 7 | Mr Binyon has thought ; he has plunged into the knowledge of the East and extended the borders of occidental knowledge , and yet his mind constantly harks back to some folly of nineteenth century Europe . |
| 8 | ‘ The citizenship law we have now harks back to another era , ’ one CDU official said . |
| 9 | Finally a framework which stretches back to distant school days but which retains its validity is that your presentation must have a clear beginning , a middle and an end . |
| 10 | Garlic is one of the most widely used aphrodisiacs around the world , with a pedigree that stretches back to ancient times . |
| 11 | Yes , Milton manager , Keith Stock celebrated yet another birthday yesterday , and his team gave him something to celebrate with three points at Basement Club , Bishops Cleve this afternoon to see United extend their unbeaten record which stretches back to last October . |
| 12 | The most important , perhaps , is freedom from the restrictive grasp of the ‘ all together now ’ class teaching system that goes back to Victorian times . |
| 13 | Just as the new Spurgeon's/Oasis venture goes back to Baptist roots , so do the organisers of ‘ Breakthrough 2000 ’ believe they are going back to roots . |
| 14 | Its history goes back to Saxon times , and it contains several interesting historical buildings , and a peaceful marina , from which you can take a river cruise . |
| 15 | Wenger ( 1984 ) identified that the death of a sibling or friends may be harder to get over than the death of a spouse , perhaps because the longevity of the relationship goes back to earliest years . |
| 16 | Goes back to Homeric times . ’ |
| 17 | Now in fact what that means for me is that actually we 're all programmers — we always have been — but we have n't been used to explaining it in quite the way that computers need us to explain it , and of course that goes back to this question of understanding English that we were talking about last time . |
| 18 | The existence today of a large Serbian minority in southern Croatia goes back to this period . |
| 19 | I therefore put it to him that he has really now er a definite choice , he can seek to resist most of these amendments and I have n't a slightest doubt they 'll be put into the Bill er the Bill will be drastically altered thereby er and when it goes back to another place nobody quite knows er wh what will happen to it , or he can use his very considerable powers of conciliation er by taking a little time for further consideration . |
| 20 | The Penhill site may be the source of a story that goes back to Celtic mythology , " The Legend of the Giant of Penhill " . |
| 21 | The brain drifts back to full consciousness now that there is a vague hint of light spreading across the eastern sky . |
| 22 | A field where the sign no longer refers back to real objects or persons but instead constructs what is to be perceived within the system of signification . |
| 23 | cos it refers back to national curriculum . |
| 24 | When it comes to neck shaping and so on , it is best to decrease the stitches back to the original number , by , for example , taking eight stitches back to four stitches if that is how you increased for the cable before shaping . |
| 25 | It follows from the above account of the expectations-augmented Phillips curve that in the short-run , both Y and P rise ( and unemployment falls ) , but that in the long-run , unemployment returns to the NUP and Y falls back to that level associated with the NUP . |
| 26 | This despair frequently relates back to early experiences when adults were literally more powerful than children and were therefore blamed by those children for some of the awful things , real or imaginary , that happened to them . |
| 27 | ‘ I think he traces a lot of his troubles back to that time . |
| 28 | It is argued here that the public sector has a crucial part to play in initiating the first moves back to full employment . |
| 29 | Sandra takes the compliment gracefully , then moves back to those magazine fantasies . |
| 30 | Its past activities included smuggling , lace-making and quarrying ; the latter dates back to Roman times . |