Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [v-ing] back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Bohemia especially , with its long tradition of industrialisation stretching back to the 1830s , where there has always been a strong commitment to the idea of social equality , where the call for national equality against the Germans had a strong social context , it 's quite logical that some kind of socialist or social thought will in the end prevail . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The Association 's chairman , Paul Bell , said there were signs of confidence creeping back into the market but there was room for additional measures if a fullblown recovery was to be seen . |
| 4 | Lanfranc could only hope that the papal Curia would come to recognize the substantial strength of this papally inspired practice of primacy going back to the seventh century . |
| 5 | And that at least is true , he thought , because if I were a crippled old man living on an early pension filtered through the Secret Vote — and thus controllable — I would n't want any whisper of indiscretion getting back to the Service . |
| 6 | ‘ We have a running programme of consultation going back over the last two years , ’ she said . |
| 7 | PC John Burden , coroner 's officer for Canterbury , Kent , said : ‘ He had a history of depression dating back to the early 1970s and he had been depressed since September this year . ’ |
| 8 | In the case of secular centres , most burghs had strips of land leading back from the market-place for burghers ' houses , vegetable plots and space for livestock . |