Example sentences of "back [prep] the [adj] ages " in BNC.
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| 1 | One could almost imagine oneself back into the Middle Ages but for the fact that technology has marched on through the centuries to replace rough-hewn bows of Yew with fibreglass ones , equipped with very advanced sights . |
| 2 | Beautiful cover showing a window opening into the past for this time travel tale about an Oxford student stepping back into the Middle Ages to finish her thesis and ending up in the middle of the plague . |
| 3 | Way back in the middle ages its lonely church was a link with one of the wealthiest , and eventually most corrupt , of religious orders — an order which , it has been suggested , could have shattered , and indeed , still could shatter Christianity to its foundations . |
| 4 | Different to Lefortovo , back in the dark ages from the second floor of the hospital block at Vladimir . |
| 5 | We poor savages , way back in the Dark Ages , still think that our women might possibly be satisfied with one man . |
| 6 | Way back in the dark ages of computing ie 1980 , two gifted software designers Roberta and Ken Williams wrote one of the very first graphic adventures — Mystery House . |
| 7 | Back to the Middle Ages ! ’ |
| 8 | Beyond Roland are the earliest of the Malá Strana watermills , dating back to the Middle Ages . |
| 9 | They represented a common English custom dating back to the Middle Ages and were first mentioned in Stamford in 1486 . |
| 10 | This law dates back to the Middle Ages , when it was a means of filling the royal coffers , and until now it has allowed the State ( today the Treasury ) to claim possession of valuable objects whose owners can not be traced . |
| 11 | Though build-about 1740 this timber frame type of construction dates back to the Middle Ages . |
| 12 | Hot cross buns , Simnel cake and Easter biscuits ( see recipes on page 60 ) contain currants and mixed spices that have been eaten at Lent since Elizabethan times , although their use goes back to the Middle Ages when only the rich could afford spice . |
| 13 | If we go back to the middle ages we had the situation of craftsmanship , where one individual was responsible for the design of what they were doing , the selection of the materials regarding what they were doing . |
| 14 | Back to the Middle Ages … ’ |
| 15 | I mean effectively , I always wanted to go back to the middle ages er , with , with the history books of English society . |
| 16 | Swan-upping ; a Thames tradition that dates back to the Middle Ages . |
| 17 | The renovation of a harbourside shop in Church Street , Whitby have revealed that it is one of the oldest properties in the town , dating back to the Middle Ages . |
| 18 | Probably , someone you would disapprove of I did n't know whether remember no probably not it goes back to the middle ages . |