Example sentences of "back into [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For many , this must have been a therapeutic way back into civilian life . |
| 2 | Most of them are ex-soldiers , many from the Afghan campaign , who have not settled back into civilian life . |
| 3 | Immediately after the war the government mismanaged the discharge of servicemen back into civilian life , and unemployment rose rapidly . |
| 4 | He 'd never settled back into civilian life , and after telling his family at Wood Burcote in Northamptonshire that he was going camping in France , wrote to say he 'd enlisted with the Croats . |
| 5 | So he fell back into civvy street , heartily pushed by his wearied superiors . |
| 6 | Hereford and worcester will have to wait for at least five years to see if the local government review will split it back into seperate counties , but Gloucestershire may benefit before then , as avon looks like being abolished in two years time . |
| 7 | The occult even stoops to necromancy , the claimed practice of calling back into temporary life a dead body for the purposes of extracting information out of its spirit . |
| 8 | Every change of scene , every sudden shock , had threatened to plunge Elaine back into catatonic silence . |
| 9 | It is perhaps an anachronism to read back into New Testament times the usage of second-century Christians whereby this word ‘ seal ’ was explicitly used of baptism , or sometimes confirmation . |
| 10 | But US companies only ploughed back into new investment a sum equal to their profits . |
| 11 | Even though there was a sharp frost outside , couples could be seen stealing away from the dance and returning a half-hour or so later , always a little crestfallen until they had danced again , danced their way back into good cheer . |
| 12 | They had seen the knuckles come out of the silken wrapping and the force of it scared their wits back into good manners . |
| 13 | Their Hedgerow Renovation Scheme is designed to bring back into good management selected hedgerows that are in poor condition , over- grown , gappy , thin or neglected , but which are capable of restoration . |
| 14 | There was a light in the next window and she drew back into deep shadow . |
| 15 | The mood immediately sank back into deep depression , especially in the light of the Soviet summer offensive , which had pushed as far as the Vistula , and , in August , the accelerating advance of the western allies through France . |
| 16 | She did not smile now but her eyelids with those amazing lashes slowly closed and Abigail gave a sigh , wriggled her body , moved her head and subsided back into deep sleep . |
| 17 | In the Daily Telegraph , Hilary Spurling wrote : ‘ Large parts of this leisurely , absorbing , painstakingly researched and deeply disconcerting book are devoted to turning Freya 's lustrous pearls back into shabby undistinguished grit . |
| 18 | The real issue is that the power of the female to gestate is brought back into symbolic conjunction with the generation of the divine presence , a conjunction excluded by patriarchal religion for four millennia . |
| 19 | The other man was in no particular rush to be anywhere , being newly-divorced and having been thrust back into bedsit-land alone and at the age of forty-two , but out of a range of possibilities the prospect of hanging around on a station platform with Joe Lucas had to rank among the lowest . |
| 20 | The supporters of Senora Chamorro said the decision was vital to stop the country from sliding back into civil war . |
| 21 | But Kirkwood , who was a particularly dejected figure after Monday 's decisive 1-0 defeat by Canada , injected some pride back into Irish ranks in the dying seconds when he flicked home the winner . |
| 22 | The director said that it would take between one and two weeks for the Soviet Union to send the forces it is currently pulling out , back into eastern Europe . |
| 23 | Going back into prehistoric time even these volumes were far exceeded by the eruption of Toba , yet another volcano in the very active Indonesian region . |
| 24 | YESTERDAY was Rogation Sunday , the rituals of which are very old and its roots go far back into pre-Christian times . |
| 25 | Get back into shallow water , and I 'll tell you when it 's safe to come swimming . ’ |
| 26 | This brief period of anecdotal joviality over with , Sutherland goes back into serious actor mode . |
| 27 | However , if you and he can overcome the early period and settle back into regular work routines , it is a vital part of his full recovery . |
| 28 | There is the damage to government systems of social responsibility which may slide back into selfish chaos . |
| 29 | Robson swooped back into Premier League action for the first time since 6 December , but his 14-minute cameo appearance was not long enough for the rusty 36-year-old to re-charge a championship bid which is going rapidly flat . |
| 30 | But as all the figures were multiplied by a factor of ten , the area was too great to be enclosed in the Mediterranean , so he placed it in the Atlantic ; and the date was put back into remote antiquity , thousands of years too early . |