Example sentences of "stretching back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Army was more ambivalent : while welcoming the end of National Service and the return to ‘ real soldiering ’ with a regular army , the Army Council looked askance at the loss of 51 regiments , 17 of which were infantry battalions with battle honours stretching back over the centuries . |
| 2 | We have a list of murders stretching back over the last two centuries for which you are responsible . ’ |
| 3 | And today we have a contribution to make in terms of our history of free trade , our outward-looking attitude to the world , and the weight of our tradition of parliamentary and democratic government stretching back over the centuries — something unmatched by any of our partners , for some of whom the very concept of democracy is of recent origin . |
| 4 | KOD belong to and older and , dare I say , bolder tradition of British independent rock stretching back through The Bunnymen , The Banshees , The Cocteau Twins and The Smiths . |
| 5 | Among the innumerable items which they brought away from Little Lea — a lumpish wardrobe to which Jack had a sentimental attachment , for instance — there were countless letters , diaries and family papers stretching back to the lifetime of their Lewis and Hamilton grandparents . |
| 6 | He had been a loyal supporter for many years , his business relationship stretching back to the 1900s when he booked John 's touring pantomimes . |
| 7 | It has been known for a woman going into labour to suddenly perceive the connection between herself , her mother , mother 's mother , all the mothers of her line stretching back to the beginnings of time , and all the daughters that will follow after . |
| 8 | In Bohemia especially , with its long tradition of industrialisation stretching back to the 1830s , where there has always been a strong commitment to the idea of social equality , where the call for national equality against the Germans had a strong social context , it 's quite logical that some kind of socialist or social thought will in the end prevail . |
| 9 | Weaving traditions in this region are extremely old , stretching back to the 2nd and perhaps the 3rd millennium BC . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The family Olive Saunderson married into had a story to equal her own , also stretching back to the seventeenth century when Zachariah Field left Yorkshire to settle in Massachusetts as a yeoman farmer Norman Field 's father was born there in 1831 . |
| 12 | In his ignorance , the right hon. Member for Chingford — I have given him notice of this — sees British history as a continuum stretching back to the dawn of time . |
| 13 | Sufficient data stretching back to the mid-sixteenth century have now been assembled to make it possible for the first time to study short-term as well as long-term characteristics of demographic behaviour at the micro level . |
| 14 | This , however , is an over-simplified view as the current phase of uplift and volcanicity represents only the most recent episode in a complex history stretching back to the Mesozoic ; moreover , the history of this vast mountain system differs greatly from one part to another . |
| 15 | In Britain , too , observers have noted instances of direct government interference in the day-to-day running of the railways stretching back to the early days of nationalization . |
| 16 | The Old Testament kings had been initiated with unction ; and in any case the Carolingians , unlike their Merovingian predecessors amongst the Franks , could not depend for their sacrality upon a long royal genealogy stretching back into the past . |
| 17 | With a sniff a hyaena can perceive not only the here and now but , simultaneously , a whole series of events stretching back into the past . |
| 18 | Everyone round the table listens intently to the story — the Chases , the Waylands , the Chyldes , the Kessels , the Bernsteins , Charles Aught , Luci Hayter , Rayner Keat , and Francis Fairlie who is still hesitating about what life to commit himself to — a great audience stretching back into the dim recesses of the room , a densely cultivated field growing faces . |
| 19 | This Easter weekend proves it yet again , with traffic queues stretching back from the West Country halfway to London and Birmingham . |
| 20 | Archaeology has , however , revealed a growing number of very characteristic narrow rectangular structures stretching back from the available street frontages and often forming blocks or rows . |
| 21 | Are The Orb the smiling , blissed-out face of a sinister intergalactic plot stretching back before the dawn of mankind itself ? |