Example sentences of "back to [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The political police in the Soviet Union had a long history stretching back to tsarist times . |
| 2 | The whole Loch Tay area has a fascinating and rich history stretching back to prehistoric times , none of which I 'm prepared to share with you . |
| 3 | But we do not have to go back to prehistoric times to witness the change in our diet . |
| 4 | The earliest known glass mirrors date back to Greco-Roman times , and were found in the tombs at Arsinoe in Egypt . |
| 5 | More generally , they looked back to Carolingian times in their liturgical practice . |
| 6 | Garlic is one of the most widely used aphrodisiacs around the world , with a pedigree that stretches back to ancient times . |
| 7 | As I stood there my mind raced back to that time so many years ago when I had heard my mother say , ‘ I do n't love you , Nicky . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I think he traces a lot of his troubles back to that time . |
| 9 | Its past activities included smuggling , lace-making and quarrying ; the latter dates back to Roman times . |
| 10 | The first written evidence of its existence as Siglestorne was in the Domesday Book , although recent archaeological excavations on Spring Field revealed the existence of a previous settlement which dated back to Roman times or earlier . |
| 11 | The village has an ancient history dating back to Roman times ( the remains of a Roman wall testify to this ) . |
| 12 | The TARDIS has brought the time-travellers back to Roman times — to 64 AD to be exact — and they have been holidaying in a deserted villa near a small town . |
| 13 | There is an even older architectural tradition , going back to Roman times . |
| 14 | " Yes , oysters — going back to Roman times . |
| 15 | Travel back to Victorian times . |
| 16 | The most important , perhaps , is freedom from the restrictive grasp of the ‘ all together now ’ class teaching system that goes back to Victorian times . |
| 17 | We are being led back to Victorian times . |
| 18 | We are certainly heading back to Victorian times on a tide of human misery . |
| 19 | We move now from tree spirits to water spirits , from maypoles to wells , and another custom whose origins reach back to pre-Christian times . |
| 20 | Often they have custody of borough archives , Quarter Session records , and the registers of baptisms , marriages and burials deposited by ancient parishes , some of whose records go back to Elizabethan times . |
| 21 | It is a small Stately Home mostly dating from the eighteenth century , but bits of it go back to Elizabethan times . |
| 22 | In fact , the Algarve coastline seems to be littered with a succession of castles and fortresses , some of which date back to Moorish times . |
| 23 | Those who had time also diligently collected their most important legal documents — the deeds of ownership to property , the maps of their orange groves and fields , their tax returns and their identity papers going back to Ottoman times — and packed them into bags and tins along with family heirlooms and jewellery and their front door keys . |
| 24 | The lower half of the tower dates back to Saxon times . |
| 25 | Easily Accessible : Mere is an attractive town dating back to Saxon times with pretty stone cottages and fine views of Blackmore Vale from Castle Hill , where once stood a medieval fortification . |
| 26 | Its history goes back to Saxon times , and it contains several interesting historical buildings , and a peaceful marina , from which you can take a river cruise . |
| 27 | Indeed , they date way back to colonial times . |
| 28 | The solution would involve mediation by the signatories of the protocol , a proposal hitherto rejected by Ecuador [ see p. 38526 ] , whose territorial claim in the oil-rich area dated back to colonial times and extended as far as the Peruvian town of Iquitos . |
| 29 | It is a fundamental concept that can be traced back to earliest times . |
| 30 | A total of 9.4 per cent , equivalent to 33,000 miles , were destroyed during the period 1984-90 , some of them dating back to Anglo-Saxon times . |