Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [v-ing] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | LIVERPOOL 'S Patent Office , with records of inventions dating back to 1617 , is raising its profile among businesses as a valuable source of research and development material . |
| 2 | As a matter of principle , the bank in such circumstances should not be entitled to rely on the transaction and this is the view which has been taken by a series of authorities going back to the beginning of this century . |
| 3 | The hardships that Ceauşescu imposed were not only necessary to provide the funds and material for everything from the House of the People ( to which they would be denied access ) to canals without traffic and power-stations without fuel , but also formed part of the folk-wisdom of tyrants going back much further in history than Ceauşescu 's own model , Stalin . |
| 4 | An example of presentation infidelity , uncovered in our survey , was where companies showed a series of columns sloping back towards the right away from the common baseline of the X axis . |
| 5 | It is argued that the breadth and depth of the market in small company shares is suffering , particularly as the volume of trading in smaller company shares has dropped since the crash of October 1987 as investors have fled to blue chip shares , and the number of brokers cutting back on their small firms business has increased . |
| 6 | Through a series of reviews reaching back more than a decade , British scholar-critics have encouraged an approach to early-music performance that reflects the priorities of their academic training . |
| 7 | Beware small-billed juveniles of other auks , though only young Puffin ( which has grey cheeks and no wing-bar ) is as tiny , and none have white of cheeks extending back almost across nape , nor blackish underwing . |
| 8 | It also has a very fine collection of clocks dating back to 1658 . |
| 9 | We were able to confirm the histories of families going back to the 19th century . |
| 10 | Sometimes people have um a whole variety of symptoms in later life and perhaps as a consequence of some sort of therapy , some sort of consciousness raising exercise , something like that erm they are not necessarily aware at the start that they 've been abused but sometimes they feel y'know a very compelling sense of memories flooding back . |
| 11 | We have a list of murders stretching back over the last two centuries for which you are responsible . ’ |
| 12 | SOUL singer Whitney Houston yesterday cemented her place in a galaxy of stars going back 40 years with this year 's Christmas No. 1 . |
| 13 | But there can not be an infinite series of causes stretching back endlessly ; for in that case , no matter how far back we were to look , we should never find a beginning of the whole process , and that in turn would make it quite impossible to understand how it could ever have got off the ground , let alone reached its present state . |
| 14 | Of course , stories of ex-smokers drifting back to the fold are commonplace . |
| 15 | Before that there was a string of flops stretching back over years ( ‘ Police Academy 4 ’ and ‘ King Solomon 's Mines ’ would have ended most careers ) . |
| 16 | It was a culmination of measures going back to the middle of the nineteenth century , but more particularly government experience since the 1890s. and above all , a shift in attitudes towards State-provided housing . |
| 17 | I have many memories of Eton : services in College Chapel , especially in winter when the lights were lit and I listened to the massed singing of a favourite hymn ; the Headmaster , Dr Alington , an Olympian figure in scarlet gown , taking " absence " on the chapel steps ; the Fourth of June , a festival peculiar to Eton , and fireworks bursting over the river ; the Field Game on winter afternoons while mist crept across the grounds ; the lamps in the High Street and crowds of boys hurrying back to their houses before " lock-up " . |
| 18 | I 'm sure I 'm getting a lot of fumes coming back out er |
| 19 | I paid a Hackney second-hand dealer £100 a few years ago for seven black plastic bags of documents dating back to the seventeenth century — the contents of tin trunks removed from the basement of a firm of solicitors . |
| 20 | It was proposed that the students of Torcy 's academy should be employed in making " a more complete and exact collection of peace-treaties " , with an accompanying commentary ; while the largest such enterprise hitherto , the Corps universel diplomatique du droit des gens of J. Dumont de Carlscroon ( twelve volumes : Amsterdam — The Hague , 1726 ) , an assembly of documents reaching back to the age of Charlemagne and drawn from sources all over Europe , was designed mainly as a help in policy-making and a kind of portable archive for the use of diplomats . |
| 21 | But throughout the book Hooks stresses the importance of women talking back , speaking out , as ’ a gesture of resistance and affirmation of struggle . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The court heard that Cowden , a former professional conman , had a string of convictions going back 53 years . |
| 24 | I feel as if I have come to the end of a long list of jobs dating back over several months . |
| 25 | Proud of being a member of a long line of parson–naturalists stretching back to John Ray and Gilbert White [ qq.v. ] , he saw his contributions to science as an extension of his work as a priest . |
| 26 | Scientific instruments and optical components , many made by himself , crowd every available space from floor to ceiling jostling with geological specimens , souvenirs from his travels to remote regions of the Earth , and boxes of photographs reaching back 65 years into history , including early colour photographs and stereoscopic pairs . |