Example sentences of "[conj] forward to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Get along if you can — watch a night pass in six minutes , go back to prehistory , or forward to the skies of the 1990s . |
| 2 | Looking back to the seventeenth century , or forward to the late twentieth century . |
| 3 | We were all marking time , waiting for our demob , and tended to look back wistfully at what was past and familiar , rather than forward to the unknown future . |
| 4 | Held , allowing the appeal , that on its true construction section 9(4) of the Evidence ( Proceedings in Other Jurisdictions ) Act 1975 was a paramount provision which limited all other provisions of that Act and related back to the time of the events in respect of which evidence was sought rather than forward to the time when such evidence would be given ; that since all the evidence sought from the retired Crown servant related to matters which had come to his notice in his capacity as an officer or servant of the Crown , section 9(4) applied and the court had no jurisdiction to make the order for his examination ( post , p. 197F–G , H ) . |
| 5 | The madrigals , more clumsy and old-fashioned , look back to the models of Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder [ q.v. ] rather than forward to the looser , more expressive style of Thomas Morley [ q.v. ] ; two of them ( xxi and xxii ) borrow musically as well as textually from Ferrabosco 's settings , published by Nicholas Yonge [ q.v. ] in the influential second volume of Musica Transalpina ( 1597 ) . |
| 6 | Located in the centre of Birmingham , it looks back to the city 's rich heritage with its colourful canalside setting ; and forward to a dynamic future through its direct link with the International Convention Centre and renowned Symphony Hall . |
| 7 | This is the process by which the manager sets aside perhaps an hour per year to talk privately to each adviser , to look back over the year and forward to the next and discuss any concerns that the manager and adviser may have . |
| 8 | With respect to the lack of co-operation , there is of course a tendency ( not uncommon elsewhere ) for librarians in different sectors to develop groups and associations to consider the problems and work within their individual sectors , without looking backward and forward to other levels of education . |
| 9 | The linear trim position indicator runs immediately behind it a red pointer moving back and forward to markings numbered either side of a central zero . |
| 10 | The fire of the Lady of the Hearth also symbolizes the way in which we can reach back to the past and forward to the future . |
| 11 | Elsewhere , like on ‘ Criminals ’ or ‘ Shaky Ground ’ , you get all the weird , unresolved chording that Michael Stipe favours , and a suitably battered vocal that reaches back to the old mountain music and forward to Dinosaur Jr , Lemonheads and Nick Cave . |
| 12 | A prolific contributor to magazines — first The Cricketer since his teens and , since 1981 , WCM — he can look back on more than 20 books , and forward to a number still in gestation . |
| 13 | The Occupation changes , like the events following the Restoration , aroused in the people of Japan reactions which looked both back to the past and forward to the future , and which highlighted Japan 's dependence on , yet difference from , the other cultures of the world . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But the , the motor car was used firstly for taking people back and forward to the station . |
| 16 | Together , we can look back on a year of consider- able success , and forward to a new year of challenge . |
| 17 | All in all , we will be able to look back on 1990 as a year of solid achievement and forward to 1991 with confidence . |
| 18 | Action round-up time now … two big events this week … we 're looking back on the RAC Rally and forward to the Hennesey Gold Cup |
| 19 | The general message was not to look back at past crimes but forward to a more worthwhile place in society . |