Example sentences of "back [prep] previous " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such models and sub-cultures tend to be conservative because they are part of a process of long-term cultural transmission , going back through previous cohorts and even generations . |
| 2 | Just on the conversions point , th there will clearly be at the end of the plan period , an outstanding balance of conversion permissions erm which will not be built during the plan period , just as there are two thousand nine hundred er which come back from previous to the well not automatically previous to the plan period , but previous to the position we 're in now . |
| 3 | Going back over previous months ' editions , I found the following : |
| 4 | Looking back over previous years , Mr Stevens found that the more poor countries produce , the less they earn . |
| 5 | Had Innocent III wished — and the evidence is to the contrary — there would have been no going back on previous policy . |
| 6 | As ‘ literary allusions ’ the Shakespearian references point us back to previous dramatic interpretations of events rather than directly to ‘ real events ’ . |
| 7 | I started keeping any post connected with finance away from him , and myself dealt with the usual household accounts such as the telephone and electricity , because even they sent him into a frenzy of checking and referring back to previous demands , an attitude completely alien to his normal temperament . |
| 8 | It has two functions : ( a ) it acts as a point of orientation by connecting back to previous stretches of discourse and thereby maintaining a coherent point of view and , ( b ) it acts as a point of departure by connecting forward and contributing to the development of later stretches . |
| 9 | The Horror Film Specialist was surrounded by an admiring coterie of lesser horror film specialists and most of their conversation referred back to previous triumphs . |
| 10 | Links between sentences can to some extent be made explicit in a similar way , by using connectives such as therefore , thus , on the other hand , or words referring back to previous sentence ( Turner , 1973 ) . |
| 11 | Relating back to previous OPCS classifications , particularly the 1970 scheme , allowing for further table look-ups . |
| 12 | That brings one back to previous awards , for in the absence of any other yardstick the principle of fairness requires that awards in comparable cases should be comparable . |