Example sentences of "back to the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If any walls appear to lean , check by going back to the nearest upper window and drop a plumb line down . |
| 2 | If a pump is not already in use , clearly an extension cable , with a weatherproof connector , will be required to reach back to the nearest electric point . |
| 3 | In 1963 came the signing of the Anglo-French agreement to build Concorde ( or ‘ Concord ’ as it was at first spelled in Britain ) , and the video faithfully traces it right back to the earliest days of its conception . |
| 4 | However , studies of children 's communicative abilities prior to the onset of spoken language have indicated that the origins of communication may be traced back to the earliest days after birth , and that full mastery of the morpho-syntactic devices for expressing complex meanings may not be fully understood until early adolescence . |
| 5 | This tradition goes back to the earliest days of the Ottoman state , to Molla Edebali ( d. 726/1326 ) , Osman 's father-in-law , and is based on statements in both the and the . |
| 6 | The practice of abortion probably dates back to the earliest human societies . |
| 7 | In a beautifully simple piece of writing Achebe transports us back to the earliest days of colonialism . |
| 8 | A SONOROUS voice from some unseen depth wafts the audience back to the darkest days of the Raj where murky affairs were afoot , when life was cheap , gentlemanly double-dealing was routine and deeds could be done and curses uttered which would pursue a man back to civilisation and England . |
| 9 | But he does n't , and my mother wo n't tell him to go , because she 's never in her life told anyone to go , it is n't in her , but he 's grinding her into the ground , she ca n't work , she ca n't concentrate , he keeps talking to her all the time , and the baby cries , and it upsets her , for all that she keeps saying it does n't , and that it takes her back to the happiest years of her life , when we were all in plastic pants , I suppose she means , except I think we all had to wear wet woolly leggings , she had this thing about plastic pants being unhealthy . " |
| 10 | They feel that , on alcohol advertising in particular , the EC has ducked the issues posed by a single market and satellite broadcasting ; and that as a result regulations may be cut back to the loosest common denominator . |
| 11 | Thank you very much I think er councillor said that in er Tory erm motions goes against er Conservative er national policy but what it does identify is a very worrying sub text to the Tory policies of the moment because w means testing for hou for housing welfare has gone back to the worst aspects of the nineteen thirties politics basically . |
| 12 | He also appears to be physically generating a new language , having gone back to the simplest animal and natural cries . |