Example sentences of "back [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his famous survey of 1849 Henry Mayhew found that the memory of the sawyers reached back through better days up to 1826 before the saw mills proliferated , to the even more lucrative times of their fathers , when sawyers could earn £1 a day . |
| 2 | It is a church whose authority lies in its age and its preservation of a form of worship which can be traced back through two millennia . |
| 3 | TRAVEL BACK THROUGH 1900 YEARS OF HISTORY |
| 4 | I join the queue that stretches back through three carriages , in pursuit of a warm can of Travellers ' Fare lager — the only substance known to man that leaves the body in exactly the same state as it entered . |
| 5 | Such models and sub-cultures tend to be conservative because they are part of a process of long-term cultural transmission , going back through previous cohorts and even generations . |
| 6 | ‘ If I were your woman , God forbid that I should ever be so cursed , I 'd cut all my hair off ! ’ she hissed back through gritted teeth , devastatingly aware of the effect his nearness was having on her traitorous body . |
| 7 | The Lark 's Head can be made into a Pedigree Cow Hitch by bringing end B back through both loops , to the other side ( Fig 8 ) . |
| 8 | This may help to explain why Dearlove 's conclusions were premature , but the issues he identifies come back as key concerns in the 1980s and 1990s . |
| 9 | Critics like the duchess believe the Government 's allocation of up to £22 million for care agencies will be heavily trimmed back as local authorities are given the final say on how the money is spent . |
| 10 | Upon a sale of land the purchaser is normally entitled to have produced to him and to investigate the deeds recording previous transactions in the land going back for fifteen years ( Law of Property Act 1969 : formerly the period was thirty years ) ; and though this period is sometimes reduced by agreement , the shortening of the period throws a risk on the purchaser , who is not only bound by all legal interests in the land which actually exist whether he discovers them or not , but also by all equitable interests which he would have discovered if he had insisted on an investigation for the longer period . |
| 11 | Pete finds this hilarious ; he has been dying to get his own back for various things for ages and this comes close to the perfect opportunity . |
| 12 | Mr Young said that now the trust had its core holdings , the second tranche of money would be invested more slowly with some held back for new opportunities . |
| 13 | Traffic tailed back for twelve miles . |
| 14 | But like most children ( and adults ? ) she has an attitude to tests which somehow stops her from checking back for possible errors . |
| 15 | My mother 's been up there and she did n't come back for two hours and she came back we kept well he 'd sold a lot of meat in the meantime . |
| 16 | He was away and would not be back for two weeks . |
| 17 | ‘ He 's been back for two days . ’ |
| 18 | She did n't come back for two days . |
| 19 | The French or Gallica roses are probably the oldest cultivated roses of European origin , and can arguably be traced back for 3,000 years . |
| 20 | It was much used in mediaeval times in Britain and , indeed , its use can be traced back for 3,000 years . |
| 21 | The bomb that killed President Muawad appeared to have defeated or at least set back for many months the Arab initiative spearheaded by Morocco , Algeria and Saudi Arabia . |
| 22 | But what you 're doing here I think it is er , er an example of the partnership , a partnership that goes back for many years , certainly during World War Two and I think er it is still strong and er holds firm today the partnership between the United States and Great Britain . |
| 23 | it looks like he 's learnt from the Arse match where he was hauled back for 5 yards by Campbell before they scored their 2nd . |
| 24 | Its taken a rush ‘ nose job ’ , a dubious penalty , an unlucky bounce on Newsomes knee and a short back header cuased by Campbell pulling kelly back for 10 yards for those people to score goals . |
| 25 | Now that is the type of thing that I would like to see come back for legal opinions on that statutory responsibility , the level of it , and the reasons for it . |
| 26 | I belong to a family which goes back for 14 centuries . |
| 27 | In my view this country is filled with immense new moral forces which have been dammed back for ten years by the great dead bulk of the Labour Party Machine lying like a fallen tree across the road to progress . |
| 28 | Under these schemes , which had first been developed in the 1970s as a means of raising capital from the private sector for new development , for example , on office and shopping complexes ( i.e. as a means of avoiding constraints on capital spending ) , council property was sold on a long lease to another agency and then leased back for shorter periods until the long lease expired . |
| 29 | The buyer will customarily ask for accounts ranging back for three years in respect of the activities of the management company . |
| 30 | ‘ You come back for some papers . ’ |