Example sentences of "back on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chrysler has already suspended production at one of its main assembly plants and cut back on managerial staff . |
| 2 | Each is tempted to act as a free rider : if other countries cut back on atmospheric pollution , everyone will enjoy the benefit . |
| 3 | Clearly they have some way to go but they can still look back on 1989 with a glimmer of pride . |
| 4 | His own voice was calmer now , as if he were relieved at being back on safer ground . |
| 5 | And for the disabled , for a short while , you 're back on equal terms with life . |
| 6 | Because of difficulties involved in cutting back on current expenditure plans , capital projects have been sacrificed in a bid to fulfil this objective . |
| 7 | Jonathan Wilshire ( Hindhead ) , also failed to find a spark and finished ten shots back on 147 ( 71,75 ) . |
| 8 | The Ridley Report : Unique event back on calmer waters Ian Ridley on a triumph for tradition after last year 's acrimony between two old heavyweights |
| 9 | The reason for that is that they 're in a very good position in the market now , they , they can negotiate very good deals on houses they 're buying , there 's a very good choice of properties available , people by the mid nineteen nineties will look back on nineteen ninety as probably the time to have bought , when house prices were at their cheapest . |
| 10 | We felt it right to accept the inevitable costs at this stage in the economic cycle and not to cut back on long-term plans that will strengthen the economy . |
| 11 | The open-ended commitment to a vastly expensive discretionary scheme for criminal injuries compensation , sanctioned by statute in 1988 but not yet brought into force at the time of writing , was a particular Treasury bête noire , leading to pressure to cut back on other things if Ministers maintained that it was politically unacceptable to curtail the cost . |
| 12 | apart from the current guys , we can look back on other great Leeds teams : |
| 13 | If you 're planning the holiday of a lifetime or aiming to spend fortunes on a new hobby or faddish craze you 'll have to cut back on other expenses Saturday . |
| 14 | Sometimes , though , an adult gets its own back on such short-changers by accepting their sperm , not for fertilisation , but as a welcome snack . |
| 15 | 38 , 51 , afford a sufficient basis for saying that a party would not be allowed in equity to go back on such a promise . |
| 16 | Newmark ( 1966 ) claims that this causes the learners to fall back on first language rules , i.e. they use the syntax of the first to speak the second . |
| 17 | In 1990 there was a breakthrough in public consciousness when entire libraries were being closed in the Midlands and other parts of Britain , and other libraries were cutting back on new books , or freezing purchase grants . |
| 18 | And in 1944 when Cole wrote his book as part of the Movement 's centenary tribute to the Rochdale Pioneers , when Consumers ' Co-operation could still look back on many decades of unbroken success , it would have been as natural for him to suppose that the Pioneers had in this respect been mistaken and that their mistake stood in need of explanation . |
| 19 | Because you 're not going to have to go back on many of the things . |
| 20 | I brought my bombs back on many occasions , because I am quite certain we never got anywhere near anything that looked like a target . |
| 21 | ‘ I can look back on many significant achievements by the staff . |
| 22 | Of his time at Darlington , he says : ‘ I can look back on many significant achievement by the staff . |
| 23 | Sun-tanned , fit and contented , we could look back on fourteen days of carefree cruising ; four hundred miles through some of the finest scenery in the British Isles with the freedom of the hills for good measure . |
| 24 | While the preparatory drafts , drawn up in Rome before the Council opened and very largely rejected by the fathers , had made heavy use of scholastic terminology and not much of Scripture — as was generally characteristic of pre-conciliar theology — the Council almost systematically reversed this , eliminating scholastic terms again and again and falling back on biblical ones . |
| 25 | American publishers are noticeably cutting back on expensive art books with numerous colour illustrations . |
| 26 | To cut back on financial support for sporting events ? |
| 27 | The readiest means of making money was to fall back on private tutoring . |
| 28 | However , cutting back on personal items does not always produce the necessary economies . |
| 29 | Back on blue number eight six seven . |
| 30 | Mr Colin Walker , a senior manager at Autotype International , said he would be reporting back on possible business links after the summer visit . |