Example sentences of "origins [vb base] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its origins go back to 1970 when a specially commissioned task force of the National Heart and Lung Institute ( as it then was ) , was asked to look into the feasibility of a trial which would settle , once and for all , the question of whether dietary change could , on its own , reduce the frequency of heart attacks in the American population . |
| 2 | The school , whose origins go back to the twelfth century , has been moved to a new location . |
| 3 | Its origins go back to the rediscovery of perspective in the Renaissance , and then to the architect 's drawings of the eighteenth century . |
| 4 | Its origins go back to 1939 when , due to the clouds of War , a decision was taken to remove the majority of Army Ordnance stores from Woolwich Arsenal and Dockyard to a new Army Depot to be built at Donnington in Shropshire . |
| 5 | But even in this tranquil part of England many of the ‘ open ’ villages had a variety of local crafts , distributive trades and small industries , whose origins go back well into the eighteenth century . |
| 6 | We move now from tree spirits to water spirits , from maypoles to wells , and another custom whose origins reach back to pre-Christian times . |