Example sentences of "[verb] back [adv] [adv] [subord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In all but a few our taxonomic knowledge is based on expedition reports dating back often more than 50 years . |
| 2 | I thought that , if I 'd just come from the Sahara to here , I 'd head back as soon as possible , family duties or not . |
| 3 | ‘ The way we conceded goals at Coventry was very hard to take and I 'm looking for us to bounce back as quickly as possible . |
| 4 | This trade-off was based on the original observations by Professor A. W. Phillips of the relationship between the rate of change of money wage rates and unemployment levels over long periods of time going back as far as 1861 . |
| 5 | Look back to-day more than sixty years on . |
| 6 | Another area used in attack is the ball of the foot , whose effectiveness depends upon the toes being bent back as far as possible . |
| 7 | Once a Roman colony , Rimini 's history stretches back as far as 268 BC . |
| 8 | Based in Bristol , Sun Life has a history that stretches back as far as 1810 . |
| 9 | Sometimes , when we got back rather later than usual , my father was already preparing to send out a search party in — as I thought then , not knowing about Grandma 's lapses — his usual agitated way . |
| 10 | The method of study developed by Leeds can be traced back as early as 1912 in his career ; however the formulation of the theoretical framework was achieved by the prehistorian Gordon Childe who stated that prehistoric archaeology should be ‘ devoted to isolating such cultural groups of peoples , tracing the differentiations , wanderings and interactions ’ ( 1933 p. 417 ) . |
| 11 | For example , Bracey ( 1958 ) in a study of 375 Somerset parishes found that , in general , the more remote and less well serviced parishes were those with the worst and most persistent depopulation , and findings like this only encouraged the further development of theories of settlement concentration in the 1960s although these can also be traced back as far as 1918 , when Peake ( 1918 ) advocated equally-spaced villages with populations of between 1,000 and 1,500 people . |
| 12 | The suspicion that viruses might cause cancer can be traced back as far as 1911 . |
| 13 | Of course , the Cardiff bay barrage proposal goes back much further than that . |
| 14 | When the handicap player copies the picture and ‘ freezes ’ his movement , he might as well only swing back as far as that . |
| 15 | We 'll go back inside anyway when these gentlemen have gone past and . |
| 16 | I 'm not gon na go back any further than that . |
| 17 | Apart from the personal attacks , its indictment of her political and ideological ideas went back as far as 1978 when she published her novel Await . |
| 18 | The origins of this philosophy go back as far as 1970 when Shell and the Nature Conservancy first devised a competition aimed at encouraging young people to come up with ideas to conserve their local environment . |
| 19 | Such claims in fact go back as far as 1926 , but it was with Thom 's careful measurement of many stone circles and alignments in Britain and Brittany that a scientific analysis of the problem could be attempted . |
| 20 | Very few registers go back as far as 1538 . |
| 21 | Few of them , however , go back as far as 1880 , though historical reconstruction can often supplement them . |
| 22 | So Alice refused all offers of alcohol from the solicitous hostess in First Class , rejected the proffered magazines , donned her eyepads , and lay back as far as possible in what the airline liked to call her armchair . |
| 23 | The flower spikes are also cream and green and the flowers blue , but these should be cut back as soon as possible to encourage more of those huge basal leaves to develop . |
| 24 | Exporters , on the other hand , will hold back as long as possible before shipping their exports : if the rate does fall , they will earn more sterling per dollar 's worth of exports . |
| 25 | The Ness is shallow and peaceful , and the murmur of its flowing falls plaintively on the ear , in sympathy with the song of the birds , and the summer tintings of the trees , and the musings of those who seem to love each turning in the paths ; while the waters of the rapids of Niagara make the onlooker hold back his breath , and keep back as far as possible from the wild leaping of the swift-rushing waters . |
| 26 | We shall come back as quickly as possible and take you to the Hall . |
| 27 | She 'd come back much earlier than expected . |
| 28 | ‘ Obviously you should get back as soon as possible . ’ |
| 29 | If you have to go out to earn a living or live up to commitments and promises you should aim to get back as soon as possible . |
| 30 | ‘ I picked up my teeth from the pitch and wanted to play on , but a dental consultant from the crowd advised me to have them put back as soon as possible ’ — JAMES CHANDLER ( Bedford wing ) after the Pilkington Cup home defeat by Harlequins when he was alleged to have been punched by an England flanker . |