Example sentences of "[noun sg] going back [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Vansittart , a former Foreign Office official , had written a pamphlet entitled Black Record blaming the Germans for a record of barbarism going back to the era of the Roman Empire . |
| 2 | Once Ranulf had gone , Athelstan sat on the altar steps , his mind going back to the corpses he had seen : Vechey 's lying cold amongst those dreadful heads on the tower gate of London Bridge ; Brampton 's sheathed in dirty canvas in the death house of St Mary Le Bow ; Springall 's lying alone under its leather covering in the great four poster bed in his mansion . |
| 3 | In a separation section , the sludge is discharged , the clean sand going back into the system , so that the process of filtration is continuous and the " filter " is self-cleaning . |
| 4 | Although they were public servants answerable to the Home Secretary , the Prison Commissioners had a separate existence going back to the reforms of the late Nineteenth Century . |
| 5 | The ILEA covered the area of the former LCC and thus ensured a continuity going back to the establishment of the London School Board in 1870 ( Maclure 1988 : 110 — 11 ) . |
| 6 | A series of synthetic compounds , with a long pedigree going back to the work of Crum Brown and Fraser in the 1860s ( see chapter 2 ) , were produced simultaneously by R. B. Barlow and H. R. Ing in the Pharmacology Laboratory at Oxford and by W. D. M. ( later Sir William ) Paton and Eleanor Zaimis at the National Institute for Medical Research . |
| 7 | It was n't any use going back to the shop now ; she would phone Myra , then she would get down to designing the bridesmaids ' dresses that would match the bride 's gown she was commissioned to make for a big wedding in the autumn . |
| 8 | In England it provided sails and cables for the fleet ; and for this reason , legislation going back to the reign of Henry VIII required that a small proportion of land be set aside for its production . |
| 9 | Well Mr er Deputy Speaker I er do n't wish to er follow the honourable member of one of my er neighbours but I actually think it 's really part of grown up politics to ensure that the political opinion of a nation is adequately represented in the forums of that nation whether it be in this place or in the European er parliament and to that extent I make no bones about it that erm I wish that we were debating a different electoral system and Mr Deputy Speaker going back to the minister 's introduction erm it is a fact , I did n't wish to intervene because I did n't , it 's a short debate and I did n't want to take up er extra time , but it is a fact is it not that our electoral system unique across Europe means that our deadline as opposed to what the French are going to do is different to all the other member states . |
| 10 | Sometimes , she would stare at them as they were talking and they would grow smaller and smaller , like a genie going back into a lamp . |