Example sentences of "date back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cuttings date back to the beginning of the 1980s : ‘ If you read these stories day by day , you simply do n't realise how many there are . |
| 2 | Florida is the shock of the new jutaposed with '40s and '50s kitsch and the magnificent turn-of-the-century beachfront resorts that date back to the days when the Northern grandees , steamer trunks and servants in tow , would descend by private rail to the exclusive enclaves of Sarasota , Palm Beach and Miami . |
| 3 | In the early decades of this century the diverse private welfare organizations ( freie Verbände ) began to firm up their organizational structures which resulted in the founding around 1920 of the major welfare organizations which dominate the German welfare landscape today : Side by side with the Protestant ‘ Innere Mission ’ and the Catholic ‘ Caritas ’ , which date back to the nineteenth century , and the Jewish central welfare association ( Zentralwohlfahrtsstelle der Deutschen Juden , 1917 ) there developed the secular welfare associations of the labour movement ( Arbeiterwohlfahrt , 1919 ) — despite the socialist principle of the primacy of public welfare ! — of the German Red Cross , and of the independent hospitals and nursing institutions ( today called the ‘ Deutscher Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband ’ ) . |
| 4 | The chalet-style hotels blend in easily with the older buildings ; some parts of the village in fact , date back to the thirteenth-century . |
| 5 | Certainly those responsible for some of the decisions that have lead to outright closures could learn a lot by looking at these institutions which date back to the nineteenth century and earlier and will no doubt continue to survive . |
| 6 | These liberal ideas date back to the 1880s , but it was the thirty |
| 7 | Teacher placement in industry have formed the backbone of the UBI activities since the project was set up in 1977 , but formal schemes date back to the early 1960s , with LEAs such as Leicestershire acting as pioneers in the field when the Confederation of British Industry ( CBI ) first piloted the three week Introduction to Industry Scheme for teachers . |
| 8 | But what one means by ‘ the first LP ’ depends very much on your definition of LP ; long-playing records of various types date back to the 1900s , as we shall see later . |
| 9 | There are three churches in the village including All Saints , parts of which date back to the 15th century . |
| 10 | Interestingly enough , broadside probably derives from the naval tactic of firing all the guns from one side of a ship of war at once , without giving the recipient the necessity of awaiting installments Such sheets are of historic importance , since they date back to the sixteenth century , when popular poems and ballads were issued in this form ; and royal and official proclamations took to the streets in this guise almost from the first days of printing . |
| 11 | HISTORIC war department buildings in Essex are being restored to their former glory.Jobless volunteers have started clearing overgrowth from around the wartime buildings at Beacon Hill , Harwich , paving the way for full restoration work in the future.The work is being organised by NACRO , the National Association for the Care and Rehabilitation of Offenders , on behalf of the Essex Training and Enterprise Council.Project supervisor Ray Rawlinson said the 18 people working at Beacon Hill were long-term unemployed and did not have criminal records.The buildings date back to the Napoleonic wars were updated during the first and second world wars . |
| 12 | The origins of Coombe House lie in the 14th century ( the surrounding farms date back to the 10th and 11th ) ; today it is a Georgian building with an attractive garden , the perimeter of which has been left to flourish without the interfering hand of man . |
| 13 | The authorities in the northern Russian town of Arkhangelsk have made the money available for a facsimile edition of one of the most ancient Russian manuscripts , the Arkhangelsk Gospels , which date back to the year 1092 . |
| 14 | The inscriptions were copied from texts on papyri and certainly date back to the New Kingdom but are probably based on much earlier writings , perhaps as early as the Third Dynasty . |
| 15 | A new culture is also developing in the controlled zones which tries to incorporate traditional campesina culture into the themes of the liberation struggle , popular theatre and music groups reinterpret the theatre-dance , the sones and boleros still found in the rural areas of El Salvador , These date back to the Spanish colonial period but much has been lost because of the impact of commercialized Western culture . |
| 16 | Both romantic lyricism and boogification not only date back to the beginnings of Elvis 's career but also continue to be used throughout its development . |
| 17 | Although some attempts at tackling air pollution problems date back to the last century or even earlier , most countries introduced their strategy for air pollution control in the 1950s , 1960s or 1970s . |
| 18 | In his review of organism and ecosystem as geographical models Stoddart ( 1967b , p. 523 ) showed how Tansley 's concept broadened the scope of ecology beyond the purely biological content and gave formal expression to a variety of concepts covering habitat and biome which date back to the late nineteenth century . |
| 19 | While researching the island 's past , Gilli discovered culinary traditions which date back to the Ancient Greeks . |
| 20 | Coloured eggs date back to the fourth century when it was forbidden to eat eggs during Lent ( the days leading up to Easter ) . |
| 21 | Some of these sanctuaries appear to lie on the boundaries between civitates , an indicator that they almost certainly date back to the Iron Age and marked tribal limits . |
| 22 | It 's not surprising then that the $4.5 billion Tandy empire has bridged this fundamental computing gap by buying Victor Technologies , who date back to the inception of the PC . |
| 23 | Presumably such militias date back to the last years of the Roman period , although there is no evidence for them in the fifth century . |
| 24 | The actual yeoman costumes date back to the 1940s . |
| 25 | Weekend Break , September 16–19 , Falcarragh , Donegal Re-establishing paths that date back to the 1730s . |
| 26 | Auctioneers Outhwaite and Litherland are selling the 40 antique fans , some of which date back to the beginning of the century . |
| 27 | He will reveal in tonight 's BBC1 Panorama programme that he is worried about facilities at the Berkshire plant run by private contractors since April which date back to the early days of the nuclear age . |
| 28 | These date back to the recommendations of the 1967 Nora Report in France . |