Example sentences of "back by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fabrics side was held back by a decline in demand for batiks in West Africa . |
| 2 | ‘ I have offered a prediction to several officials of the Soviet government that , on the present slow course , the reforms run a very high risk of being set back by a general collapse of confidence in the rouble — an inflationary disintegration , ’ Mr Angell said . |
| 3 | Waved back by a Kalashnikov-wielding , spotty boy-soldier , I was subject to a ten-minute harangue by two bad-tempered border guards . |
| 4 | The new conventional wisdom which divides the young old from the old old at 75 marks a boundary for entry into the last stage of life which has now been pushed back by a dozen years . |
| 5 | This onslaught was driven back by a police baton charge in the course of which four youths were slightly hurt . |
| 6 | And it was as if Boy was now suddenly the drowning one , and O was the lifeguard ; O slapped him twice around the face , pulled his head back by a handful of hair and placed his mouth over Boy 's before he had time to speak , and kissed him right there in the doorway of The Bar . |
| 7 | I 'm called back by a member of the Guardia Nacional . |
| 8 | He advanced again , but was driven back by a hail of blows . |
| 9 | There was to be a review for them , when any man who would like to go back to France would be sent back by a route through Marseilles , and he would provide for any man who wished to serve with his newly formed force , the Free French . |
| 10 | You can sometimes get a little darkness back by a well-balanced skin diet , which I am sure your vet would have recommended . |
| 11 | The National Railway Museum will set the family purse back by a similar sum . |
| 12 | After five minutes patiently waiting I noticed that he had been distracted on his way back by a friend behind the counter . |
| 13 | But they were driven back by a hail of huge roof slates . |
| 14 | Other less clear-cut chances were also smashed back by a Springbok side which continues to make the most of their discipline despite having less ball and creating fewer chances than the opposition . |
| 15 | One unguarded remark by Byrkin , one remark that had been carried back by a man with innocence on his face to those who would judge Byrkin . |
| 16 | In the United States a national botanical garden was founded to exploit the seeds and plants brought back by a Pacific exploration expedition under Charles Wilkes in the years 1838–42 . |
| 17 | Between 1873 and 1878 , for example , the hesitant growth of American trade unionism was dramatically set back by a 5-year economic depression . |
| 18 | Things that had been yoked , harnessed , held down and held back by a power that was dissolving . |
| 19 | He walked back by a different route which took him along the waterfront . |
| 20 | And Nurse Cohen above him , her head snapped back by a blow and the blood splintering from it . |
| 21 | An illuminating example of this kind of recognition on the part of teachers is provided by a lengthy continuation sheet clipped to one of the returned questionnaires and sent back by a member of one of the departments . |
| 22 | Had he gone to Glastonbury or come back by a secret route to Templecombe to hide himself in the church ? |
| 23 | The torturers were waved back by a senior clerk who had accompanied the French King to the dungeon . |
| 24 | And the silk scarf with it in a faded paisley design looked like something brought back by a missionary aunt from India about thirty years ago . |
| 25 | And the overall engineering figures seemed to have been held back by a ten per cent drop in the fourth quarter , pulling it down to the overall UK trend for the year of minus five per cent . |
| 26 | By refusing office , Labour would lose all the parliamentary advantages it had gained by becoming the official Opposition in 1922 ; its position in the country might be put back by a decade . |
| 27 | The problem is that more and more heat is being kept back by a blanket of gases surrounding the Earth ( including Carbon Dioxide and CFCs ) and as a result temperatures around the world are gradually increasing . |
| 28 | Wycliffe had to make his way past a small crowd of would-be sightseers held well back by a uniformed policeman . |
| 29 | ‘ No regular soldier I ever knew wore cross bandoleers , or had long hair held back by a headband . |
| 30 | Evenwood were pegged back by a Darren Rawlston goal at home to Billingham Town after Sean Monaghan had put them ahead . |