Example sentences of "back [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stipe continues to take a back seat on ‘ Endgame ’ , a largely instrumental piece with horns and strings taking centre stage while the singer ululates in the wings . |
| 2 | Let's stick to this concept , I , I welcome it , I think it shows good thinking on the part of our officers and I would like to suggest that er , I take er , a back seat on this one , and I , I , I 'd feel probably , set up a sub-committee , I would think four or five is ample , and I would like to propose that Malcolm chairs this meeting , so that we have a fresh brain and a younger brain , looking at the future 's problems . |
| 3 | The Economic and Social Research Council has cut back work on the 1991 census and its ‘ positive health ’ centre for health promotion . |
| 4 | Equally , the maintenance of that support through a difficult period will reflect back credit on banking as a whole . |
| 5 | He 's spending an afternoon in Barcelona , knocking back beer on someone else 's account . |
| 6 | That 's what happened to me old man in the cleaning business , I mean with you could write your own cheque virtually , but they , they had sort of like a three year , three year back log on painting , they just did n't pay anybody . |
| 7 | Here , operational procedures have to be set down in advance in order to specify areas of accountability and standards of performance ; there must be a monitoring system to feed back information on performance to the right authority centres , and arrangements to correct operational activity in the light of any shortcomings . |
| 8 | In mid-1968 , a time of financial difficulty , while urgent discussions were taking place at the highest level on ways to save the party newspapers , the Ministry of Information was trying to find ways of cutting back expenditure on broadcasting and information services . |
| 9 | For the Germans , in effect , borrowed American money to pay reparations to the Allies , who used these to pay back interest on their War Debts to the USA . |
| 10 | About 100 people , including a senior French Customs officer , were arrested after the Japanese failed to claim back VAT on high-fashion handbags bought in Paris . |
| 11 | This also means that the business can not claim back VAT on the purchases which it makes . |
| 12 | A business claims back VAT on the goods and services used by the business . |