Example sentences of "back to the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He reminded her of the ancient tradition of Christianity in that part of Ireland , one that dated back to the first century after the crucifixion , before Rome was supreme . |
| 2 | students of bones , a jocose reference back to the first description of Mrs Podsnap ( OMF i 2 ) as a ‘ fine woman for Professor Owen , quantity of bone , neck and nostrils like a rocking horse … |
| 3 | The irony that Charlton finally got back to the First Division in 1986 , the year their exile from The Valley began , is n't lost on Ufton . |
| 4 | The Pontins League includes the reserve teams of most of the North 's top clubs , with Everton gaining promotion back to the first division last season after being relegated 12 months previously . |
| 5 | Hughes , aged29 , has a remarkable record going back to the first women 's World Championships in 1980 including a world gold in 1986 , world bronze in 1987 and two European titles . |
| 6 | I 'd like to just bring you back to the first question you asked , which was how do you define sexual harassment . |
| 7 | Under hypnosis she was taken back to the first day of her stay in hospital — the day before the operation itself . |
| 8 | If you can go back to the first day that you arrived |
| 9 | Her mind drifted back to the first day they 'd seen Crystal Springs . |
| 10 | First the next coupon payment is added to ( 8.8 ) and then the whole sum is discounted back to the first day of the delivery month . |
| 11 | Creggan did not like this and flew back to the first tree . |
| 12 | And again , if he wanted to alter a painting later after its completion , if he did not go back to the first idea and atmosphere of conception , he could never make the alteration a success . |
| 13 | Far from being just another Rolls-Royce clone with winged ‘ B ’ badges , the Mulsanne went straight back to the first act where raw performance and driving reward shared equal billing with cossetting comfort and refinement . |
| 14 | After I started with Veronica , Mrs D went back to the First Spiritualists . ’ |
| 15 | We have to look back to the first quarter of 1988 to see a time when construction output was so low . |
| 16 | We have to go back to the first quarter of 1986 to see such a low figure for construction output per person in the past decade . |
| 17 | The crypt ( which could go back to the first basilica to be built on the site , in the ninth century AD ) , should be completely restored within a year . |
| 18 | The popes , as bishops of Rome , had a " genealogy " going back to the first pope , the apostle Peter . |
| 19 | Now , going back to the first time Mahoney was shot . |
| 20 | In most cases , the stem simply withers back to the first node , and remains as an unsightly brown spur . |
| 21 | because we get back to the first chapter , verse nine . |
| 22 | The private sector of rented accommodation has become a relatively minor part of the housing market and its long-term decline certainly stretches back to the First World War . |
| 23 | Only 15 months later , the participants in that match , which , it must be said , was not full of passion , are now presumably heavily engaged in destroying each other simply because they come from two sides of a divide that dates back to the tragedies , miseries and horrors of the second world war , back to the first world war and into the deep recesses of history before that time . |
| 24 | This means that garment workers in the Third World who benefited from the search for cheap labour by the TNCs in the past , can no longer assume that their jobs will always be safe from relocation back to the First World ( Elson , in Elson and Pearson , 1989 ) . |
| 25 | A campaign for a People 's Front would detract from their attempts to influence the Labour Party , and was felt to be inspired by Lloyd George , with whom the Communists had a long standing feud , dating back to the First World War . |
| 26 | Now , however , Freud expands that concept as well and interestingly enough he goes back to the first term he used for repression . |
| 27 | Erm but to come back to the first criterion which says avoid the greenbelt , I know exactly what you mean when you say avoid the greenbelt , but if in the context of the wording before that where it says to be located beyond the outer boundary of the York greenbelt , do you need to have criterion one ? |
| 28 | ‘ Josephinism ’ in religious matters , again , it is now clear , had behind it a long tradition extending back to the first years of the century . |
| 29 | Where an applicant voluntarily left accommodation but had then acquired temporary accommodation , the courts interpreted the legislation so as to entitle the local authority to relate back to the first accommodation and so to find that he was intentionally homeless . |
| 30 | And talking about feet brings us back to the first step . |