Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] back on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr , do you want to come back on the point made on the other side of the room about your arbitrary selection of building rates ? |
| 2 | Hewlett-Packard Co has swung back on the offensive in the US with a predatory enhanced workstation trade-in programme , which it says accepts the broadest range of workstations , personal computers and X terminals in part exchange for new Precision Architecture RISC workstations and X stations . |
| 3 | When she dislocated a shoulder while chasing a burglar , and was out of action for another four months , she could n't wait to get back on the beat again . |
| 4 | Burhanuddin Rabbani , leader of the moderate Sunni Moslem Jamiat-i-Islami , took over the presidency of the interim government on June 28 from Seghbatullah Mujjaddedi , despite earlier suggestions that Mujjaddedi was seeking to go back on the April 24 Peshawar power-sharing accord reached by seven Sunni Moslem mujaheddin groups in Pakistan following the overthrow of the Soviet-backed Najibullah regime [ see pp. 38847 ; 38915 ] . |
| 5 | When they 'd landed back on the plate , he leaned forward , studying the pattern they 'd formed . |
| 6 | Many of these have since been taken on by the wider society and are to be found in all its corners influencing even those who would now deny them any real significance and tend to look back on the decade as only times of silliness and self-indulgence . |
| 7 | Candidates include : the inability or unwillingness of the Federal Reserve to stem the banking panic and maintain the money supply ; the failure to use fiscal policy intelligently ( up to and including Franklin Roosevelt 's New Deal after 1933 ) ; the uses and abuses of the gold standard ( Britain deciding to go back on the gold standard in 1925 at the pre-1914 parity , then deciding to come off the standard altogether in 1931 ; the refusal of many countries , especially America , to follow gold-standard rules ) ; the outbreak of trade war sparked by America 's Smoot-Hawley tariffs in 1930 ; and so on . |
| 8 | By eschewing the obvious solution of a differential dividend payment , the group has had to fall back on the option of endowing the chemicals company with additional cash by way of a rights issue from Zeneca . |
| 9 | But when I enquired about the location of the Waaf Site , I was told to climb back on the wagon . |
| 10 | More to the point , it would cost more to cancel Concorde than the relatively paltry £17 million it would cost to go back on the Channel Tunnel . |
| 11 | The shabby room above the tobacconist 's shop where we held our ward meetings became home to me and , in a queer way , made me feel whole and integrated again so that I began to look back on the activities I had taken part in with Sophie as some kind of mental aberration . |
| 12 | But Tommy Johnson is aiming to step back on the goal trail . |
| 13 | The reforms could also mean that the most experienced specialist officers , such as police divers , would have to go back on the beat . |
| 14 | ‘ Yes , the pressure on me has increased since Stuart decided to come back on the England scene , but this is not the first time he has squeezed the position and I accept that challenge from a top-class player . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Yes , the pressure on me has increased since Stuart decided to come back on the England scene but this is not the first time he has squeezed the position and I accept that challenge from a top-class player . ’ |
| 16 | The blame was placed squarely on the United States for having gone back on the Moscow agreement and on the basis worked out by Marshall and Molotov for renewing the meetings of the Joint Commission . |
| 17 | I am known as Sideways Reynolds and I might have to cut back on the speed on the corners . |
| 18 | The two understudies were asked to come back on the Friday afternoon , when there was going to be a complete run of the play for the producers and Malcolm Harris . |
| 19 | The Exiles are bristling to get back on the scene and currently lie third in the Division Four South , tucked in behind Havant and Basingstoke . |
| 20 | After losing 83–6 to Blaydon and 42–3 to Horden in recent weeks , the injuries are not helping to get back on the rails in time for their final two league matches this month against Sunderland and Mowden Park . |
| 21 | The Colchester corporation re-elected him in 1628 , but he was unseated on the protests of the freemen , and forced to fall back on the Sussex borough of Steyning . |
| 22 | This appeared to go back on the health white paper , which had stated in a detailed working document : ‘ Legislation will be needed in order to require FPCs ( family practitioner committees ) and RHAs to keep to their drug budgets . ’ |
| 23 | But he can not afford to sit back on the basis that Everton are too big a club to go down . |
| 24 | B While the legends of the First Age are a ‘ calque ’ , then , their resemblance to a known pattern directs us primarily to difference from that pattern ; the elvishness of the elves is meant to reflect back on the humanity of man . |
| 25 | And we never did go back on the payroll after that . |
| 26 | He had a high-rolling joint on the SS Nocturne , a ship anchored outside the limits , and some nasty rumours had floated back on the tides along with a well-dressed corpse or two . |
| 27 | All seven Fulmars had landed back on the carrier by 2015 but two were again scrambled almost immediately on the approach of three more S.79s . |
| 28 | But it would take many years before Nordhausen became a green town , many years before it could even start to ease back on the pollution it coughed on to its inhabitants and the surrounds in which they existed . |
| 29 | And something 's changed in the intervening time , I mean I know there 's aggravation and times are hard , I know we 've cut back on the hours and the rest , but there 's a lot of things that are n't good . |
| 30 | They 've cut back on the number of trainees ; they 've cut back on the number of occasionally used specialists ; they 're really down to the bedrock now . |