Example sentences of "goes back [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The pageantry of the Sovereign 's Parade , When the senior cadets are formally commissioned and the Adjutant tides up the steps of Old Building on his White charger , goes back many years .
2 ‘ I 've heard that he was n't on speaking terms with Alfred and that the feud — whatever it was — goes back many years … ’
3 Prizes were presented by Royal Bank Vice Chairman Charles Winter whose association with the Dundee and Edinburgh Football Clubs goes back many years .
4 My interest in North Plains people in 1750 to 1850 which is about the same period for the you know cowboys goes back many years to my pre- writing days .
5 The Bourequat family goes back 14 centuries .
6 If we include those whose radio technology goes back 100,000 years , the whole trillion-star galaxy would be within radio range .
7 Great rift goes back 500 years
8 The political and social infrastructure for the perpetration of overtly racist acts goes back hundreds of years of course ; but events immediately preceding the sixties laid the foundations for those excesses by the way ‘ race ’ became politicised .
9 THE political and religious crisis gripping India and Pakistan goes back hundreds of years .
10 Yet its origin goes back hundreds of years , to the days when the women camp followers of the mighty Persian armies slept in their scarlet silk tents .
11 Discussion of the effects of changes in the stock of money goes back hundreds of years .
12 President of er has warned that there could be a real and serious civil war and the conflict that there is between Armenian people and Azerbaijan , I 'm not sure that I understand it , but I suppose it has some similarities to so many other conflicts we see around the world , Northern Ireland , er Yugoslavia , just , it goes back hundreds of years and .
13 The recorded history of the country goes back 5000 years to the first known pharaohs ; and though for 2000 years there had been waves of invaders bringing one foreign ruler after another , for most of the peasants ( the fellahin ) life continued much as it had for centuries , regulated as much by the Nile and the miracle of its annual flood , as by successive new masters .
14 Has charm , but worries too much — the sort of person who locks the back door and then goes back three times to check .
15 The relationship between the two goes back three years to when NCR built its Systems Manager product on NetLabs ' first-generation product , NetLabs/Manager .
16 for the third of January , then he goes back tenth cos his
17 Her history goes back 140 years .
18 The story here also goes back some 50 years to S. K. Bose , the famous Indian physicist whose name is associated with ‘ boson ’ particles and with Bose condensation , a phenomenon connected with the behaviour of liquefied helium .
19 The iceberg is the result of a rapid rise in vehicle theft by young persons which goes back some time .
20 It goes back 50 years .
21 On page one seven five you 've got how to check the circulation , after you 've put the bandage on to make sure it 's not too tight , it 's not stopping all the blood supply , press a fingernail if there 's only a finger nail and the , it should go white of course if you press it , then the blood should go back and it goes back pink again or an area of er skin , always check your circulation after you 've put your bandage on .
22 The bond between man and dog goes back ten thousand years .
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