Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] back [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be possible , while accepting the underlying general principle , to argue against its applicability to nuclear weapons : for instance , by saying that a nuclear bomb is not a chemical weapon as such , the poison gas being a mere incidental by-product ; or to go back to the fundamental prohibition of ‘ weapons that cause unnecessary suffering ’ and argue that the suffering caused by a nuclear weapon is not disproportionate to its military effectiveness . |
| 2 | ‘ I would hope if sufficient parents support me they will either postpone the tests until Easter , by which time the children will have some idea of what it is like , or go back to the previous system . |
| 3 | I became increasingly interested in gay men 's specific ways of seeing the world — what one might call , to use a now unfashionable phrase of Raymond Williams , male homosexual structures of feeling — but to qualify for inclusion in this framework , texts had to pass an ‘ authorship test ’ ( ‘ is/was he gay ? ’ ) that harked back to the bad old days of crudely biographical criticism . |
| 4 | He decided it would take less time to break the copyguards than to go back for the correct disc . |
| 5 | When she peered through her fingers it seemed to her that the butterfly was quite happy in its warm cage : not a flutter from its four wings as she proceeded carefully along the box-edged paths that led back to the green garden door . |
| 6 | And at the same time , and slightly in contradiction to that , I found it increasing erm , er , perception and indication of dissatisfaction with the way in which the joint er , collaborative structures were actually working , if I may say , especially at the top level in terms of the political erm erm , so I say to you colleagues , that you are required as er , by statute to , to have in place collaborative structures , er , under a statute that goes back to the nineteen seventies , and I should also say to you that up and down the country that authorities like your own are at this stage doing what you 're doing , and that is reviewing the effectiveness of the operation of those structures , and probably coming to much the same conclusions . |
| 7 | The part to go is the Business Systems line of Motorola Inc 68000- and Intel Corp iAPX-86-based Unix machines that are the direct successors to Texas 's old TI 980 and TI 990 minicomputer business that goes back to the early 1970s . |
| 8 | Jacobson 's rehabilitation of Cain is in a literary tradition that goes back to the Romantic poets , who identified with Cain as an outsider . |
| 9 | He reminded her of the ancient tradition of Christianity in that part of Ireland , one that dated back to the first century after the crucifixion , before Rome was supreme . |
| 10 | The front end , continually revised in the Dino range , was tidied up again , this time with pop-up headlamps , deleting the sole styling detail that dated back to the late '50s and early '60s . |
| 11 | This image of Celtic was one that dated back to the '20s when the club tried to sell the free scoring centre-forward Jimmy McGrory when he was en route to a catholic pilgrimage at Lourdes . |
| 12 | One of those kittenish creatures he remembered from the films of his childhood in the Fifties , clad in waist-high , baby-doll nightdresses , women who seemed to enjoy nothing more than lying back among the yellow nylon sheets and allowing themselves to be strangled . |
| 13 | Elsewhere , like on ‘ Criminals ’ or ‘ Shaky Ground ’ , you get all the weird , unresolved chording that Michael Stipe favours , and a suitably battered vocal that reaches back to the old mountain music and forward to Dinosaur Jr , Lemonheads and Nick Cave . |
| 14 | In one of them he found a collection of cheque stubs and account books that went back to the 1940s . |
| 15 | Weekend Break , September 16–19 , Falcarragh , Donegal Re-establishing paths that date back to the 1730s . |
| 16 | But the plunder is just part of the over-fishing that dates back to the 1960s , when North Sea herring were annihilated . |
| 17 | The bureaucracy certainly needs streamlining : the immigrants are met initially by the Absorption Ministry , but once in the country many of their needs are looked after by the Jewish Agency , the semi-private organisation that dates back to the early years of Jewish settlement in Palestine . |
| 18 | Swan-upping ; a Thames tradition that dates back to the Middle Ages . |
| 19 | There is St John 's Hospital , the first in Europe , built in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries , although founded much earlier , and still in use until the 1970s ; the Beguinage , a religious foundation for women that dates back to the twelfth century , now a convent ; the thirteenth-to fifteenth-century Church of our Lady , with a 350ft tower ; the Stadhuis , a magnificent Gothic town hall dating from 1376-1420 . |
| 20 | It is the last of the merostomes the group of fossil horseshoe crabs that were varied and numerous in the coal swamps of the Carboniferous and have a history that extends back to the Cambrian . |
| 21 | They are not reasons for the impulses but causes that hark back to the primitive responses that we share with many animals ; yet qualified by noting that we , unlike dumb brutes , can reflect upon our impulses and resist them if we so decide , as happened in my example . |
| 22 | Owen drew breath and plunged back to the little group , still hemmed into a few yards of the pathway . |
| 23 | This central role for private property has a long history in European thought and goes back to the eighteenth-century notion of the social contract . |
| 24 | We mounted and rode back through the lazy summer sunshine , the Scottish troopers massing behind whilst Vauban pushed forward between us . |
| 25 | And I started another one and I said no I wo n't be able to this and got back to the other one and did the other one . . |
| 26 | She felt , rather than heard , how he turned smartly and loped back across the panelled hall towards the door , no doubt to drive the car round into the garage . |
| 27 | Members of the committee visited the institution in rotation and reported back to the full committee . |
| 28 | Ranulf sprang up , pleased to abandon the fresh air of the country and head back to the seamy streets of London and the rounded pleasure-giving body of Mistress Semplar . |
| 29 | Had it not been for the activities of Lady Laetitia 's lover , bold Sir Rupert Cartland ( played by an odious young actor who 'd risen to prominence by playing a tough naval lieutenant in a television series ) making with the garlic and the wooden stakes ( a bit of vampire lore crept into the script ) , Lady Laetitia and her father would have been turned into zombies and carried back to the subterranean cave , where they would never be heard of again . |
| 30 | The car leaps forward , tears between two lorries and lurches back into the middle lane . |