Example sentences of "[noun pl] go back [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The school , whose origins go back to the twelfth century , has been moved to a new location . |
| 2 | Horns go back to an older world where surrenders were not accepted , to the dead defiant Roland rather than the brave , polite , compromise-creating Sir Gawain , whose dinner is served to ‘ nwe nakryn noyse ’ — the sound of chivalric kettledrums . |
| 3 | His researches go back to the 1950s : ‘ I was always fascinated by history — I spent five years as an architecture student and the reason why I did n't get through was that by the end I was much more interested in the history of architecture than other aspects of the subject , ’ he recalls . |
| 4 | From prehistoric times there have been fortifications of one sort or another on the great Rock which dominates the surrounding countryside , but the first records go back to the seventh century . |
| 5 | These swimming habits go back into the Palaeozoic , to the Carboniferous or earlier . |
| 6 | Of all Christians , those of the Orthodox family have remained the most conservative , Their cultural roots go back to the Byzantine Empire and there has been no event for them comparable to the Reformation or Vatican II . |
| 7 | One may venture to make the proposition that the roots go back to the short-lived but glorious revolution of October 1956 . |