Example sentences of "harks back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has stuck to an antiquated way of operating that harks back to the days of guild power , and has refused to countenance criticism . |
| 2 | In a paragraph whose subtitle , ‘ City , City ’ , harks back to The Waste Land , he expressed astonishment that in an economic slump the City was pulling down buildings to erect ever more splendid banks . |
| 3 | But it also harks back to the leadership campaign , when this noted intellectual was reported as saying some unkind things about the cerebral quality of one candidate , a Mr John Major , who heard the reports . |
| 4 | Much of the legislation harks back to the time when individuals were less readily identifiable than they are nowadays and so protection was necessary to ensure that foul play was not involved . |
| 5 | The synthesised audible warning harks back to the 25 , but the computer controlled , MacPherson strut-based self-levelling air suspension is much more ‘ cutting edge ’ for Renault . |
| 6 | Yet despite a modulatory and harmonic palette occasionally redolent of mid-Classicism , his employment of formal procedures unmistakably harks back to the bygone era ( much the same could be said of Mozart 's church music ) . |
| 7 | The custom of asking for permission to marry has less significance nowadays ; it harks back to the time when a father had control over his unmarried daughter 's money until a husband came along . |
| 8 | Purists are giving the thumbs up to the Everton away strip in salmon and navy which , according to Umbro , harks back to the 1880s for inspiration , while Man Utd 's basic blue and Ipswich Town 's nod towards the Thirties also appeal . |
| 9 | The architecture shows the influence of the Italian colonisation ; the modern harbour harks back to the healthy export of livestock to the Gulf States ; and the large scale agricultural activity in the adjacent fertile valley now lies dormant with equipment and crops stolen and even the electricity pylons stripped of their cables . |
| 10 | Ablaze with brightly hued foliage , rolling hills , jagged cliffs and tiny fishing villages , this regions harks back to the Mother Country , with the added attraction of all the diversity that America can offer . |
| 11 | The latter phrase harks back to the bare trust provision in section 6(3) . |
| 12 | This harks back to the foreclosure issue . |
| 13 | This of course harks back to the much older debate about whether memories can be localized — something I 'll come back to later , ; much of the next two chapters will be taken up with the question of the localization of memory in space and time . |
| 14 | Another famous hillside figure harks back to the days when , according to legends , giants walked the land . |
| 15 | For example ideas about more homely living environments can be traced to the early part of this century ( Roosens , 1979 ) , a concern with nature and form of assessment harks back to the Charity Organisation Society ( Sainsbury , 1989 ) , co-ordination of care was stressed in the Seebohm report and has featured in most subsequent discussions ( Cmnd. 3703 ; DHSS , 1982 ) and the need for planned hospital discharge has featured in critiques of the mental health services ( Cmnd. 6244 ; Jones , 1988 ) . |
| 16 | This harks back to the debate in Chapter 6 as to the transferability of concepts and systems which originate in the commercial world to the NHS without modification . |