Example sentences of "hark back to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should like to hark back to a comment by my hon. Friend the Member for Cambridgeshire , North-East ( Mr. Moss ) who instanced how , in other European nations , the amount of money provided by the national Government to domestic agriculture was very much greater than in this country . |
| 2 | It did n't hark back to a mythical , puritan past but went super-realistic instead . |
| 3 | … Oakeshott 's conservatism does not appeal to any sort of metaphysical or religious beliefs for sanction or support ; nor does it hark back to a more integrated and traditional form of society . |
| 4 | Ronnie Biggs harks back to a bygone age . |
| 5 | ‘ Each panic harks back to a mythical age of contentment and social order . ’ |
| 6 | There is no ‘ murmuring ’ with them , no wild complaining , no harking back to a mis-remembered past , no rebellion . |
| 7 | In part the German obsession with woods , forests and mountains was a sentimental reaction against urbanisation , harking back to a restless , tribal existence . |
| 8 | All four Gospels hark back to a period long before their own composition — perhaps as long as sixty or seventy years . |
| 9 | Simmel asserts that many of the attitudes which surround , and were created through the impact of , money as abstraction are most evident when it has not completely achieved its role in transforming its own social context , and where there are still structures which resist this transformation and hark back to a non-monetarized era . |