Example sentences of "back as far as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Ness is shallow and peaceful , and the murmur of its flowing falls plaintively on the ear , in sympathy with the song of the birds , and the summer tintings of the trees , and the musings of those who seem to love each turning in the paths ; while the waters of the rapids of Niagara make the onlooker hold back his breath , and keep back as far as possible from the wild leaping of the swift-rushing waters . |
| 2 | Another area used in attack is the ball of the foot , whose effectiveness depends upon the toes being bent back as far as possible . |
| 3 | So Alice refused all offers of alcohol from the solicitous hostess in First Class , rejected the proffered magazines , donned her eyepads , and lay back as far as possible in what the airline liked to call her armchair . |
| 4 | Abel Goumba of the Front patriotique oubanguien — Parti du travail said that the " regime appears to be using stalling tactics to push it back as far as possible " and that the opposition would increase its activities to press for the conference to be convened earlier . |
| 5 | Once a Roman colony , Rimini 's history stretches back as far as 268 BC . |
| 6 | For example , Bracey ( 1958 ) in a study of 375 Somerset parishes found that , in general , the more remote and less well serviced parishes were those with the worst and most persistent depopulation , and findings like this only encouraged the further development of theories of settlement concentration in the 1960s although these can also be traced back as far as 1918 , when Peake ( 1918 ) advocated equally-spaced villages with populations of between 1,000 and 1,500 people . |
| 7 | This trade-off was based on the original observations by Professor A. W. Phillips of the relationship between the rate of change of money wage rates and unemployment levels over long periods of time going back as far as 1861 . |
| 8 | When the handicap player copies the picture and ‘ freezes ’ his movement , he might as well only swing back as far as that . |
| 9 | The origins of this philosophy go back as far as 1970 when Shell and the Nature Conservancy first devised a competition aimed at encouraging young people to come up with ideas to conserve their local environment . |
| 10 | Very few registers go back as far as 1538 . |
| 11 | Few of them , however , go back as far as 1880 , though historical reconstruction can often supplement them . |
| 12 | The suspicion that viruses might cause cancer can be traced back as far as 1911 . |
| 13 | Such claims in fact go back as far as 1926 , but it was with Thom 's careful measurement of many stone circles and alignments in Britain and Brittany that a scientific analysis of the problem could be attempted . |
| 14 | Apart from the personal attacks , its indictment of her political and ideological ideas went back as far as 1978 when she published her novel Await . |
| 15 | Based in Bristol , Sun Life has a history that stretches back as far as 1810 . |