Example sentences of "[n mass] of [noun pl] [v-ing] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But there can not be an infinite series of causes stretching back endlessly ; for in that case , no matter how far back we were to look , we should never find a beginning of the whole process , and that in turn would make it quite impossible to understand how it could ever have got off the ground , let alone reached its present state . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Through a series of reviews reaching back more than a decade , British scholar-critics have encouraged an approach to early-music performance that reflects the priorities of their academic training . |