Example sentences of "goes back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This goes back at least as far as Aristotle . |
| 2 | The tradition , which goes back at least 2,500 years , continued until the early part of this century . |
| 3 | The age of organ-building goes back at least to Louis the Pious , for whom a Venetian priest called George built an organ at Aachen in 826 , and it is reflected in the lively illustrations of organs in the Utrecht Psalter , a Reims manuscript of about 830 . |
| 4 | As an electoral doctrine , this latter belief goes back at least to Alcibiades , who cut off his dogs ' tails so that he should be talked about ; from which little good came either to him or to Athens . |
| 5 | Their history goes back at least to the Ordovician , although some of the Palaeozoic asteroids are distantly related , if at all , to the living species . |
| 6 | Evidence of ritual burial goes back at least to Neanderthal man and possibly even earlier . |
| 7 | Plain food and good beer are to be had in Berlin 's oldest tavern , Zur Letzten Instanz ( 2125528 e ) , in the Waisenstrasse , which goes back at least to 1621 . |
| 8 | This account , though it applies much more widely , is essentially the same as an explanation of these social phenomena which goes back at least to Hume , who accounted for ‘ the artificial virtues of chastity and modesty in women ’ by referring to the naturally greater disposition of males to protect children that they believe to be their own . |
| 9 | The idea that criminality is the outcome of organic disorder or disease goes back at least as far as Lombroso , who associated crime with epilepsy . |
| 10 | This ‘ ontological imperialism ’ , Levinas argues , goes back at least to Socrates but can be found as recently as Heidegger . |
| 11 | Written knowledge of contraception and abortion , some of it potentially effective like coitus interruptus and vaginal sponges and spermicides , goes back at least two millennia ( Himes 1936 , McLaren 1990 ) . |
| 12 | The sheer number of monks became an obsession that bound together reforming bureaucrats and their liberal heirs , showing how both drew on the criticism of the ‘ sterile ’ classes , which goes back at least to the sixteenth century . |
| 13 | Evidence of Dalmatians ( whom the Italians called Schiavone or Slavs ) working in Italy goes back at least to the time of Radovan . |
| 14 | This tradition goes back at least to Herder and Lessing in the eighteenth century ; and it continues beyond Nietzsche to Johannes Volkelt and Bertolt Brecht in our own time . |
| 15 | An alternative usage , which goes back at least to the seventeenth century , made " family " a widely dispersed group of relatives , loosely linked by ties of " blood " and affinity , but not necessarily associated with any one household . |
| 16 | It was coined in 1969 by the American scientist John Wheeler as a graphic description of an idea that goes back at least two hundred years , to a time when there were two theories about light : one , which Newton favored , was that it was composed of particles ; the other was that it was made of waves . |
| 17 | The party was founded in June 1989 but Green activity in Slovenia goes back at least 20 years , centring on issue-oriented protests , notably over the nuclear plant at Krsko . |
| 18 | The concept goes back at least as far as 1877 when Jessel MR stated in Winn v Bull [ 1877 ] 7 Ch 29 that " where you have a proposal or agreement made in writing expressed to be subject to a formal contract being prepared , it means what it says ; it is subject to and is dependent upon a formal contract being prepared . " |
| 19 | er it goes back at least 300 years er possibly longer than that , it may be that when they finish the tar they had services up there to celebrate it or to remember one of the benefactors . |
| 20 | He goes back towards GUIL . |
| 21 | Any sign of browning or other discolouration could be the onset of die-back , and if this is confirmed , you may be able to trim it away , but if it goes back below the node , you will have to prune back to the next growth bud irrespective of its direction . |
| 22 | The rabbit that goes back through the gap will run his head into trouble . |
| 23 | I suppose the expression rolls off the tongue — the three As — and , of course , the meeting goes back over one hundred years . |
| 24 | A specialist in failure analysis in that unit is Tony Jones , whose involvement in AIB investigations also goes back over many years . |
| 25 | The new suit goes back over old ground , again alleging that AMD broke copyright agreements by using Intel 's microcode in the new chip . |
| 26 | In so doing the newcomers have contributed to the sense of urban encroachment on rural political affairs among farmers and landowners which goes back over a much longer period , and which has been associated with changes in the institutions of political control in the countryside : the gradual decline in the personalized and autocratic power of the locally resident squirearchy and the transfer of public administration to a more formal and impersonal framework of local government since local politics were first placed on a democratic footing in 1888 . |
| 27 | Northampton 's history goes back beyond the Romans — certainly to the Iron Age and settlements of that time can be found in and around the town . |
| 28 | Justin goes back to England for a while , and then , having broken some hearts , arrives in the Sudan to perform his own suicide . |
| 29 | Often , even after insisting that everyone goes back to the launch point , there will be barely enough people to hold all the gliders down , turn them around and re-park them if the wind changes . |
| 30 | It goes back to , and celebrates , the deliverance of the Israelites from Egypt 's bondage under Moses . |