Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] back [prep] [art] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new conventional wisdom which divides the young old from the old old at 75 marks a boundary for entry into the last stage of life which has now been pushed back by a dozen years . |
| 2 | The fiscal and institutional roots of stability might be traced back to the 1690s , with the financial revolution ( which meant that England 's ruling elite finally worked how to finance government effectively ) and the growth of bureaucracy ( which laid the foundations for firm executive control by the central government which emerged in the eighteenth century ) . |
| 3 | Housing was the first of the public sector programmes to be tied back in the 1960s . |
| 4 | The war of words between the two parties often reflected this sense of historical continuity , the roots of the divide frequently being traced back to the 1640s . |
| 5 | These fields in humans were discovered back in the 1940s and 1950s . |
| 6 | Her breasts were stranded back in the fifties . |
| 7 | And the overall engineering figures seemed to have been held back by a ten per cent drop in the fourth quarter , pulling it down to the overall UK trend for the year of minus five per cent . |
| 8 | In these uncertain and troubled circumstances he was called back to the one thing outside his faith in which he could place his trust . |
| 9 | The Peke-faced cat was known back in the 1930s , but the other three were all discovered in the 1960s and were quickly established by enthusiastic local breeders , delighted to be founding new lines of pedigree cats . |