Example sentences of "[vb -s] back to the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has stuck to an antiquated way of operating that harks back to the days of guild power , and has refused to countenance criticism . |
| 2 | Another famous hillside figure harks back to the days when , according to legends , giants walked the land . |
| 3 | One can not help but reflect on how much all of this emerging artistry stems back to the exhibitions of Tom Van Sant 's work in the USA and UK during 1976 . |
| 4 | The eventual sacking of Charman largely stems back to the rows with Allison during the recording of the album . |
| 5 | His hands are tight across my back , then he lets go and as I walk out of the room his face goes back to the letters . |
| 6 | If the poem goes back to the origins of religion , it also goes back to the origins of society and language . |
| 7 | If the poem goes back to the origins of religion , it also goes back to the origins of society and language . |
| 8 | The answer goes back to the origins of the Hungarian nation and tells us something about its individuality . |
| 9 | If the right hon. Gentleman goes back to the incidents to which he was referring , he will find that they were not ones that could naturally and immediately be followed by a statement . |
| 10 | The origin of the equivalence principle goes back to the experiments of Galileo . |
| 11 | If there are no more loans to be entered , the user presses the RETURN key and goes back to the options list . |
| 12 | the solicitors ' profession goes back to the courts of the 15th century , and to this day a solicitor 's full title is ‘ Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales ’ . |
| 13 | the solicitors ' profession goes back to the courts of the 15th century , and to this day a solicitor 's full title is ‘ Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales ’ . |
| 14 | The solicitors ' profession goes back to the courts of the 15th century , and to this day a solicitor 's full title is ‘ Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales ’ . |
| 15 | The solicitors ' profession goes back to the courts of the 15th century , and to this day a solicitor 's full title is ‘ solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales ’ . |
| 16 | The solicitors ' profession goes back to the courts of the 15th century , and to this day a solicitor 's full title is ‘ Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales ’ . |
| 17 | Of course , the concept of a liberal education goes back to the Greeks , and Newman 's lectures and books were only one more interpretation of an idea which as Rothblatt ( 1976 ) clearly shows has demonstrated a remarkable adaptability and longevity . |
| 18 | In thesimpler organisms , the feedback signal goes back to the boundaries on which the stimuli impinge . |
| 19 | It goes back to the days when people used to worship heavenly bodies as gods . |
| 20 | Another speculation is that this odd behaviour ( to humans ) is a genetically controlled one that goes back to the days of the giant ground sloths . |
| 21 | This goes back to the days when there were hop gardens at the rear of the pub , and picking was done by gipsy families ( shant being an old gipsy word , meaning to drink ) . |
| 22 | The very important interest JCI has in the diamond industry goes back to the days when Barney Barnato , together with Cecil Rhodes played an important role in the establishment of De Beers in Kimberley . |
| 23 | The difference , now partly traditional , goes back to the days of tithes , the payment to the Church of one-tenth of the produce of the parish . |
| 24 | It is interesting also that this scheme goes back to the roots of the Elim movement . |
| 25 | Sentence ( 2 ) is connected to ( 1 ) , for instance , by the phrase " for such reasons " , which refers back to the reasons listed in ( 1 ) , as well as by the fact that the " dream vision convention " is recognisable as an aspect of " a literary work " referred to in ( 1 ) . |
| 26 | There follows the usual discussion on oppressed-minority self-detecting radar — Jewish , lesbian or otherwise — and some sniffing delicately around the problematical area of Israel , policies of and attitudes toward : Then Clint refers back to the books . |
| 27 | After losing most of its wartime recruits back to the universities and the law , the Service was determined to maintain its new influence , in Whitehall if not the world . |
| 28 | Damon Hill walks back to the pits after colliding with Italy 's Alessandro Zanardi in the South African Grand Prix yesterday . |
| 29 | Only 15 months later , the participants in that match , which , it must be said , was not full of passion , are now presumably heavily engaged in destroying each other simply because they come from two sides of a divide that dates back to the tragedies , miseries and horrors of the second world war , back to the first world war and into the deep recesses of history before that time . |
| 30 | ( The name dates back to the days when all home electronics was a horrid brown colour — now it is an almost nasty black ) . |