Example sentences of "go back at [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly , but then De Gaulle was only the most recent of a line of French national leaders , going back at least as far as Joan of Arc , who have seen in the English , through most of the centuries , their main enemy , whereas of course we did n't come across Germany internationally at all until within the last ninety years . |
| 2 | This goes back at least as far as Aristotle . |
| 3 | The idea that criminality is the outcome of organic disorder or disease goes back at least as far as Lombroso , who associated crime with epilepsy . |
| 4 | The concept goes back at least as far as 1877 when Jessel MR stated in Winn v Bull [ 1877 ] 7 Ch 29 that " where you have a proposal or agreement made in writing expressed to be subject to a formal contract being prepared , it means what it says ; it is subject to and is dependent upon a formal contract being prepared . " |
| 5 | Official efforts to protect the cultivator against an oppressive lord went back at least as far as legislation by the Emperor Leopold I in 1680 ; and in many ways Maria Theresa showed a truer concern for her peasant subjects than her son was ever to do . |
| 6 | Ideas relating the folds and faults expressed in the Mesozoic cover of southern England to the underlying basement structure go back at least as far as Godwin-Austen ( 1856 ) , but have gradually become more firmly based . |
| 7 | Water-powered fulling mills were not new ; indeed they go back at least as far as the thirteenth century . |