Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] back [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a Dutch medical man who is credited with having discovered the first recipe for gin back in the 1600s . |
| 2 | The locals , realising an opportunity when they saw one , ploughed increasing amounts of money back into the aspiring town and today the results are there for all to see . |
| 3 | And , as importantly , ‘ Young Americans ’ ( 1975 ) reintroduced black music , with all its connotations of forbidden pleasure , in the form of disco back into the mainstream white audience . |
| 4 | If we sample one of these cavities in which the process is er which produce boils er are going on , almost inevitably we find this organism staphylococcusorius and offspotulates have been clearly fulfilled with organism and this disease most notably by a bunch of of medical students who are subjected to all sorts of tortures by their professor of microbiology back in the nineteen fifties . |
| 5 | Every fifty years there was a redistributions of land back to the original owners . |
| 6 | The Chieftain attribute identifies the lexicographer who is permitted to approve the transfer of material back to the main archive , and to reallocate ‘ ownership ’ of bundles of entries . |
| 7 | The ‘ billow ’ or cone shape which develops in the sail under air flow couples with sweep back on the leading edges to offer a natural washout . |
| 8 | And some of them , of course , emigrated to the United States because they could n't cope with life back in the old lands , the Shakers , are they part of the same sort |
| 9 | This means that garment workers in the Third World who benefited from the search for cheap labour by the TNCs in the past , can no longer assume that their jobs will always be safe from relocation back to the First World ( Elson , in Elson and Pearson , 1989 ) . |
| 10 | A shift in emphasis back to the rural areas was manifested by what might be termed an urbanization of the countryside . |
| 11 | Inspiration , she says , initially came from seeing Pink Floyd in concert back in the early 70s . |
| 12 | While the SAS were returning to Jalo a battle was raging and the Eighth Army was in retreat back to the Egyptian frontier . |
| 13 | Self Inflicted Wound , that was how they had referred to sunburn back in the old days of Counter Insurgency . |
| 14 | But Paula , who shot to fame back in the '70s in the hit TV shows The Lovers and Man |
| 15 | The lace-like type that come within these groups are very slow in growing ; one we have , which is reputed to date back to the early '20s if not beyond , stands less than five foot tall but measures eight foot across . |
| 16 | It was the way we looked at life back in the mid-60s . ’ |