Example sentences of "[verb] back from the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Arts : Lenny stands back from the brink of bathos |
| 2 | THE CATHEDRAL at Lyon stands back from the bank of the Saone , and , from the other side of the river , is half hidden by bland blocks of flats . |
| 3 | Painfully , Athelstan drew back from the precipice of doubt and depression . |
| 4 | On other occasions he drew back from the implications of this argument by not referring directly to the Jews and by arguing that the British army would always obey the orders of the cabinet even if there was a Jewish Minister for War such as Hore Belisha . |
| 5 | Aberdeen , who bounced back from the disappointment of losing to Rangers with a deserved Cup win over Dundee United on Sunday , are likely to be unchanged . |
| 6 | We had to stand back from the edge of the pavement as their wheels splashed along the teeming gutters . |
| 7 | In practice it is not always easy to stand back from the mass of information and choose a main message and a few submessages . |
| 8 | Here he was able to stand back from the onrush of western man and ask himself the real questions of life and meaning ; get his young life , full and successful as it had been , into perspective . |
| 9 | That demanded constant attention , and yet the Prime Minister must also be able to stand back from the pressure of events and think about the future . |
| 10 | Error comes in if one over-interprets the relevance of these conclusions , by forgetting the artificial constraints of the experiment and instead assuming that in real life , outside the laboratory so to say , such changes involving only a single variable can actually take place ; that it is a simple matter to extrapolate back from the artificiality of laboratory isolation to the complex , rich interconnectedness of the real world . |
| 11 | As we were talking , out of the corner of my eye I could see Balvinder Singh stumbling back from the cooking-corner of the tent , holding a plate piled high with hot pakoras . |
| 12 | It started in the 38th minute with a straightforward close range blast after Wright destroyed the Ipswich defence and curled an audacious chip-shot that came back from the underside of the bar . |
| 13 | The evening light came through the skylights high overhead , glossing the scurfy backs , the sores , the scabby manes , and a soft echo came back from the walls of the vast , bare concrete building of animal content , feeding . |
| 14 | Such funding would have to be clawed back from the contraction of the institutions . |
| 15 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 16 | Burned by their experience of the volatility of the capital markets , many leading banks such as Bank of America and Lloyds are pulling back from the periphery of their systems to defend their home bases . |
| 17 | But as the news leaked back from the trenches of the horror and futile brutality of the Great War , the mood changed to one of sorrow and mistrust , and even an old trouper like Baden-Powell could not hide his feelings . |
| 18 | The arrows in the drawing are moving back from the boundary of the information field to the centre . |
| 19 | She had never heard him scream like it , the dreadful sound echoed back from the sides of the skip and his fists were hard as little rocks . |
| 20 | Stepping back from the hurly-burly of political combat , I suppose all the tussles of the last 15 years have been about weaning our politicians off the romance of a benevolent , let alone competent , state . |
| 21 | I would like them both to go back from the month of June . |
| 22 | Questions were raised in the House of Commons about a group of local hippies arrested early in 1967 , and local MPs vied with each other to be in the vanguard of efforts to control the ‘ army of secret drug takers in the area … ( who need to be ) brought back from the brink of madness ’ ( Newcastle Evening Chronicle : 27 February 1967 ) . |
| 23 | The earliest of these was in 1495BC , when frankincense trees were brought back from the Horn of Africa for Queen Hatshepsut . |
| 24 | Abraham has passed the test , Isaac is saved , and the purposes of God are brought back from the edge of the abyss . |
| 25 | They are , indeed , reported by people who have been brought back from the edge of death — though mundane scientists tend to attribute them to the effects of oxygen starvation on a failing brain . |
| 26 | As Bosnia pulls back from the brink of peace , we look at why the Bosnian Serbs rejected the Vance-Owen peace plan , at what the West might do next , and at the possibility now raised of a wider Balkan war |
| 27 | Hope reined himself in , pulled back from the edge of his desperation , ‘ … at times have been led to think that way . ’ |
| 28 | This tension is resolved by coming back from the brink of the recognition of the politics of divide and rule in society in general and instead binding the issue to the micro-politics of individualised self-interest . |
| 29 | Sounds will be reflected by the shiny tiled walls and also bounce back from the surface of the water . |
| 30 | The Doctor shrank back from the chill of his touch . |