Example sentences of "look back over [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the provision of public housing had been established as a principle in rural areas by 1939 — by itself no mean achievement when one looks back over the history of rural housing — the results of twenty years of legislation were a disappointment . |
| 2 | Nick Clark looks back over the Maxwell era . ) |
| 3 | Just finally looking back over a career that spans now five decades , is there anything you 'd have done differently over the years ? |
| 4 | Since the death of Tito in 1980 , and with the growing economic crisis , which is felt by Serbians to have particularly affected them ( although there is , in fact , little evidence that Serbia 's relative position has fallen in comparison with Yugoslavia as a whole ) , a growing number of Serb intellectuals have been looking back over the past and asking themselves whether Serbia was discriminated against under ‘ Titoist ’ rule . |
| 5 | At last she said slowly , ‘ What I mean is , looking back over the past is always a bit sad , even if what you 're remembering is happy times , because it 's over and done . |
| 6 | Said his friend-cum-mentor , Irving Layton , in looking back over the period , ‘ I had a very sharp feeling in the early fifties that poetry in Canada had come in from the cold and was starting to gain momentum . ’ |
| 7 | Looking back over the season it seems to me supporters can have little cause for complaint . |
| 8 | We have taken various risks looking back over the years , like Wapping . |
| 9 | Looking back over the years , the initial aim of creating awareness has been substantially achieved . |
| 10 | Looking back over the years at the relative strengths of Japan versus the US in the semiconductor industry — a polarisation that will always make the news in Japan — during the 1970s , the US had an advantage , Grove said , which faded in the 1980s when Japanese manufacturing disciplines , just-in-time and its clearly superior semiconductor manufacturing equipment led to the Japanese gaining the upper hand , particularly in memory chips . |
| 11 | Indeed , looking back over the years , I have become surprised , not that people murder each other but that , given our love of bloodshed , they do n't do it more often . |
| 12 | Anyway , looking back over the years I can imagine what that poor bastard at Smithfield felt . |
| 13 | Looking back over the Birthday Scheme Register , there are gaps in some people 's giving for some months . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They drew the eye to One Tree Hill , now forested over , and from this clump , at Chested , he could look back over the top of Chiddingstone Castle to another clump at Mark Beech beyond . |
| 16 | Yet Iago suddenly wheeled his pony again , and made for the highest point of the ridge , where he could look back over the valley , and see as far as the scattered outer copses and the rim of the forest . |
| 17 | If you have given birth , can you look back over the process and recognize how it has changed you ? |
| 18 | Spend some moments in quiet , look back over the pages of this chapter , reconsidering what you have learned and the thoughts which have come to you . |
| 19 | We have all sorts of remaining problems but by and large , if we look back over the past three four years , tremendous progress has been made . |
| 20 | When I look back over the years I see impatience as the great sin of life . |
| 21 | This is clear if we look back over the years . |
| 22 | If we look back over the record of the last twenty years in our ten countries , we may detect certain common trends , unspectacular , but nevertheless significant . |