Example sentences of "[noun sg] [that] dates back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only 15 months later , the participants in that match , which , it must be said , was not full of passion , are now presumably heavily engaged in destroying each other simply because they come from two sides of a divide that dates back to the tragedies , miseries and horrors of the second world war , back to the first world war and into the deep recesses of history before that time . |
| 2 | Not far from the citadel , should you choose to cross over to that less appealing side of Bayonne , is a small English war cemetery that dates back to the siege . |
| 3 | The bureaucracy certainly needs streamlining : the immigrants are met initially by the Absorption Ministry , but once in the country many of their needs are looked after by the Jewish Agency , the semi-private organisation that dates back to the early years of Jewish settlement in Palestine . |
| 4 | If important meetings give butterflies in the stomach or a racing pulse , you 're experiencing an affliction that dates back to the stone age : stress . |
| 5 | The place is peppered with awards and mottos , an approach to life that dates back to the elder Watson , but would be recognised by any Japanese factory manager . |
| 6 | But the plunder is just part of the over-fishing that dates back to the 1960s , when North Sea herring were annihilated . |
| 7 | Swan-upping ; a Thames tradition that dates back to the Middle Ages . |