Example sentences of "back to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indian English preserves others in aspic : tiffin , a light lunch ; stepney , a spare wheel ; culturable , dated by the Oxford dictionaries back to 1796 and who in England ever used it since ? |
| 2 | The secretary of the association , Kenny Ferguson , said : ‘ We have official documents dating back to 1772 which prove that the Clyde Port Authority had no right to sell the land to Scottish Enterprise . |
| 3 | Similarly after we have printed the brochure , a hotelier may decide to change the meal service either to buffet style or back to traditional waiter service . |
| 4 | In the current era of food surpluses , efforts are being made to reduce production , both by political manoeuvre ( e.g. set aside and diversification ) and a return to sustainable systems of agriculture which are perceived as going back to traditional methods . |
| 5 | But it will be undesirable to put the clock back to traditional farming systems , which had to tolerate diseases , weeds and pests when there was no method of control available , even when agriculture was a labour-intensive industry . |
| 6 | The climb-out is shallow ( about 300 ft/min ) and flown at 50kts with the engine pulled back to 2250 rpm to conserve it a little — max rpm ( and thus 38hp ) is at 2625 rpm . |
| 7 | Namibia was included in the list of least developed countries ( LDCs ) through the unanimous adoption of Resolution 45/198 on Dec. 21 , bringing the number back to 42 . |
| 8 | Now erm all this really goes back to eighteen seventy one . |
| 9 | But er , also i I 'm currently compl er getting together the records of my old company that go back to eighteen seventy-nine , and I 've been instrumental in getting one or two of the governing bodies to get their records in . |
| 10 | The alleged scheme , in which old loans were paid back to General Motors by ever-escalating new loans from its own finance subsidiary , dates back to 1980 . |
| 11 | ‘ If you go back to 1980 , they changed the manager four times and got relegated . |
| 12 | His association with Bush dated back to 1980 when he managed his campaign for the Illinois primary against Ronald Reagan . |
| 13 | Ah … well this goes back a LONG time … well back to 1980 I think . |
| 14 | May it not be the mission of Buddhism today to lead the world back to moral values and to help people everywhere to find an ethic , related to conditions in the modern world , which will gain acceptance and inspire right effort ? |
| 15 | Around 20 per cent of loans to Third World countries have been spent on arms : the weapons go to poor countries , the money back to rich ones3 . |
| 16 | Flap 15° brought it back to 55 kts and full flap took off another three knots . |
| 17 | The brochure stated clearly that while some children transferred back to mainstream schools , ‘ the majority remain until they are 16 years of age ’ . |
| 18 | After seven holes , Sheehan was ahead , still 14 under where Coe-Jones was back to 13 under after dropping a shot at the short and watery fifth . |
| 19 | So we 'd jump up an get one of these rabbit skins and then we 'd take it back to wholesale fruiter in Street , and get fourpence for it . |
| 20 | If we ask whether there were ancient documents which showed that the primacy went back to authoritative sources , the answer ( as I shall argue later ) is that there were documents which gave general support to the claim , sufficient to authenticate the living tradition of the community , but insufficient for use in a court of law . |
| 21 | In the BZW forecast , Peter Thomson said the FT-SE index should be back to 2,100-2,200 by the end of this month and would at best hold its own next year but more likely fall to 1,800 , where it started this year . |
| 22 | Adenauer still emerged triumphant in the September 1961 election , but the CDU fell back to 45 per cent of the vote whilst the SPD advanced to 36 per cent and the FDP to 13 per cent . |
| 23 | According to the National Statistics Office , the inflation rate in December rose to 14.1 per cent , the highest rate since Aquino came to power , although by January the rate had fallen back to 13.1 per cent , compared with 12.8 per cent for November 1989 . |
| 24 | Remember the successes , remember the positive improvements ( even look back to six months ago and find it difficult to believe how much better you are meeting the challenge of hearing loss ) and then tell yourself , quite truthfully , that you are growing every day in con |
| 25 | Now we 're back to six people again and they 're all working for me in a very small way . |
| 26 | He did not marry again until much later , when he was coming back to political life after the economic changes of 1962 , which made the shipping more important . |
| 27 | On Jan. 15 he told a news conference that the FLN regarded the HCS as " unconstitutional " ; its formation left " the way wide open for any kind of adventurism and extremist theses , [ and ] makes the road back to political stability long and arduous " . |
| 28 | Prune ramblers when flowering ends ; cut out old wood to the ground or back to young stems , and tie in new growth . |
| 29 | Whether we like it or not , and I must admit I do , Britain is back to two-and-a-bit party politics and Labour is now favourite to win the next election . |
| 30 | Presumbly Kev had been on the hotline to Wilko at half time and told him to get back to 4–4-2 asap ! |