Example sentences of "looking back [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christians , both Catholic and Protestant , have argued thus , as have Muslim scholars looking back to a golden age when Islamic thinkers were at the forefront of the physical sciences . |
| 2 | Looking back to the latter half of our time in Scotland , I seem to have been engaged in a variety of activities : was twice part of a consortium to bid ( unsuccessfully ) for the franchise for Scottish Television ; was appointed chairman of the board of Edinburgh 's Royal Lyceum Theatre Company , a post I held for seven years ; was persuaded to stand as a candidate for Lord Rector of Edinburgh University and ( mercifully ) was defeated by its former Roman Catholic chaplain ; gave poetry recitals with Moira at Edinburgh Festivals and elsewhere ; attacked in a lecture to the Royal Society of Arts the moronic language of disc jockeys whom I referred to as ‘ the Anyway Boys ’ ( the word ‘ anyway ’ being their standard linking passage ) — but singled out for praise a comparative unknown by the name of Terry Wogan ; rejoined the Liberal Party ; took part in a shoot where in the gloaming I brought down what I thought was a woodcock but turned out to be a parrot , escaped recently from its cage a mile away ; fished for salmon in Spain where my guide was called Jesus ( and enjoyed bawling for him down the river bank ) and on the way home visited the marvellous cave paintings of Altamira and Lascaux ; proposed ite health of Prince Philip at a Variety Club luncheon and of London 's Lord Mayor at his midsummer banquet ( he was also chairman of the London Rubber Company to which I made some fruity references ) ; and for a year was resident British columnist of the American weekly magazine , Newsweek International . |
| 3 | Looking back to the initial aims of the study as delineated by the deputy head , he envisaged both short-term and long-term aims . |
| 4 | Looking back to the last war , I can clearly remember arriving at Abbeydale Council School in Sheffield to find it badly damaged by a bomb , having to transfer temporarily to Lowfields and Ann 's Road Schools and then to ’ home service ’ , which was simply a teacher in charge of a dozen or so kids in somebody 's front room . |
| 5 | Looking back to the seventeenth century , or forward to the late twentieth century . |
| 6 | Writing this from the standpoint of the narrator ( Arthur ) looking back to the sixteenth ( and last ) year of Philip , the youngest child of the Morgan household , we are told that Arthur kept a diary of that year — as indeed Edward had kept such a diary and later printed it in The Woodland Life . |
| 7 | From The Great Train Robbery ( 1903 ) onwards , the Western has been informed by a species of bitter nostalgia , looking back to the wild days of the West and questioning the value of the civilisation won by all that exciting gunplay . |
| 8 | Chris was looking back at a colourful four-wheeled cart drawn by two tasselled horses . |
| 9 | You could see the prisoners looking back at the two bodies in the centre of the carnage ; there was a lot of blood now , spreading in pools . |
| 10 | Looking back at the stormy relationship of a few years ago , he realised how much she had mellowed . |
| 11 | Looking back at the bell-box Sorvino was tempted to find a half-brick and try to put it out , but that would be fun and not duty . |
| 12 | Maybe in forty years time , people will be looking back at the good old days of the Nineties to see which rising stars started their careers playing North-East venues . |
| 13 | Tsu Ma turned , looking back at the young man . |
| 14 | He turned his head , looking back at the six T'ang standing amongst the pillars , watching him . |
| 15 | But by looking back at the archaic phase of Greek history and forward to later autocrats , as we have done with the Sicilian tyrants , we can remind ourselves that the democratic interludes of Greek history were not merely short but untypical — in Syracuse , Macedon , Cyrene and satrapal Asia Minor one-man rule was normal for much of the period 479–323 BC . |
| 16 | Luke shrugged eloquently , his eyes like dark , dreamy pools of liquid as he favoured Fran with a lingering look before looking back at the older woman . |
| 17 | He levelled off about ten feet above the ground and banked as he climbed , looking back at the red flag . |
| 18 | So , too , the third of them , Stevens , who stood to one side , looking back at the wall-length window and its view of the great circle of the spaceport 's landing apron . |
| 19 | Looking back at the tangled web of confused events we can see that the answer had already emerged . |
| 20 | Looking back as an ordinary member , it is clear the buying out episode must have been irksome in the extreme and very wearing for a group of unwitting members who volunteered at this point in time to serve the Club and whose prime interest was a round of golf ! |
| 21 | Looking back on a memorable 1991 , 26-year-old Roebuck thinks he was a very fortunate man . |
| 22 | Peter O'Toole 's happiest hour as the Soho scribe looking back on a mis-spent life . |
| 23 | LOOKING back on Northern Ireland as it was when the troubles started is uncannily like looking back on a silent movie . |
| 24 | Looking back on the scant evidence we have to assume that , along with the guilty , some innocent men and women went to their deaths , despite their confessions . |
| 25 | The ageing NI team is looking back on the key events of the last decade of the millennium . |
| 26 | It is difficult to believe in the political naivete of judges , but Sir John Donaldson , president of the NIRC , looking back on the short history of that court , has expressed views which are bewildering in their ingenuousness . |
| 27 | Looking back on the twenty-five years of fostering children , is there any one memory that stands out for you ? |
| 28 | The start of a New Year is a time for looking back on the past 12 months and also a time when self-styled pundits such as myself are unwisely tempted to look into their crystal balls and come up with the predictions that by the end of the year they may well regret |
| 29 | Looking back on the bitter , dangerous adventure he undertook in her service , years later , Hi Ridden still sees her in a romantic light : |
| 30 | Like most girls of my generation , I managed to graduate from High School with my virginity intact , ’ wrote Janet Harris looking back on the Fifties in The Prime of Ms America . |