Example sentences of "with [noun pl] [v-ing] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Set in six acres of parkland , Ayton Hall is an elegant 19th-century house with foundations dating back to 1281 . |
| 2 | From the 1966 census , but with analyses pushing back to 1961 , several major studies have attempted to use a wide range of census data grouped in new and more functional ways to depict the spatial characteristics of the British population . |
| 3 | To understand the meaning of survival , stand beneath a maidenhair tree ( Ginkgo biloba ) or a dawn redwood ( Metasequoia glyptostoboides ) ; both are well represented in Trust gardens and both are ‘ living fossils ’ with pedigrees stretching back to the age of the dinosaurs . |
| 4 | A delightful village pub with traditions going back to the eighteenth-century . |
| 5 | It certainly begins to seem as though the materialist philosophy of the last few decades in the West was a myth just like any other , now that science is getting so weird , what with particles travelling back in time , and the fantastic strangeness of the new cosmology and chaos theory ( all those pretty Mandelbrot sets , and stuff about butterflies in China causing storms over the Atlantic ties in perfectly with the New Spirituality ) . |
| 6 | Part of a coffee grinder is also understood to have been found in the house along with newspapers dating back to the beginning of May . |
| 7 | The Pepperers was one of the oldest guilds in London with records dating back to 1180 . |
| 8 | One of the country 's foremost insurance underwriters , with roots dating back to 1720 and currently handles assets exceeding £8,500 million , Guardian Royal Exchange has an excellent reputation for courteous and prompt service . |
| 9 | But it went on to slam British Rail for using ancient commuter trains with parts dating back to the steam age . |