Example sentences of "back [noun sg] to " in BNC.

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1 It has now emerged that the fraud was carried out by using the credit to pay back money to International Signal and Control as if it was the customer making stage payments on the contract .
2 Apply back stick to half loop back to normal flight .
3 They were going to undo the spells that held together the vortex and bring back Chaos to the world .
4 In previous years this was how the BBC treated the competition , but gradually , with its revamped Sunday Grandstand , cricket took a back seat to free-fall dominoes and the like .
5 In previous years this was how the BBC treated the competition , but gradually , with its revamped Sunday Grandstand , cricket took a back seat to free-fall dominoes and the like .
6 Golf Faldo forced to take a back seat to Walker Cup team .
7 As the relentless publicity machinery of pop set about building Kylie into the perfectly-packaged star , however , the cerebral was taking a back seat to the sensational .
8 Critics compare him to Jeremy Thomas , who produced The Last Emperor but whose name takes a back seat to Bertolucci 's .
9 His office at the Caterham factory is covered with pictures of Seven racing cars — and one of Patrick McGoohan , whom he persuaded to endorse a special 35th anniversary Prisoner edition of the Seven this year ; his most animated conversation is reserved for descriptions of the car and its abilities , and one could almost believe that finances and company administration took a firm back seat to the development and fine tuning of the car 's design .
10 Slemen added : ‘ We accept we must take a back seat to the national side , but we are still determined to succeed where the Midlands and England B failed . ’
11 To some extent this was natural , for , as economic mobilisation became total , finance took a back seat to the direct controls over labour and materials .
12 So far the EPA has taken a back seat to the Department of the Interior in shaping new environmental policy in the new administration ; Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt has already taken action on endangered species , land management issues and reorganizing its science programme .
13 Borough councillors on the transport committee will consider the proposal on Monday but Mr Docherty said whatever their decision he expected they would take a back seat to Stockton Borough Council which coordinated last year 's meetings .
14 Set back carriage to 0 ; all other buttons and levers to neutral .
15 Supposedly , Mr Rogich arrived in the White House yesterday to re-style the President 's image ; to bring back razzmatazz to what he calls ‘ the beautiful people ’ in the Bush cabinet .
16 Silent yawning will also bring back mobility to your face .
17 This behavior brings back benefit to the change master .
18 Then followed a report back session to the clinic staff .
19 Xerox Corp has some good news for Utica in upstate New York , a town that is more used to news of plant closures : on Maundy Thursday , Xerox announced that it plans to locate a new manufacturing subsidiary in Utica , which could create as many as 300 new jobs , although it will start with only 50 ; the new plant , called the Low Complexity Manufacturing Group Inc , will supply simple subassemblies for integration into Xerox copier and printer products , and could also bring back work to the US from foreign suppliers , as well as saving Xerox $2m a year .
20 Paula said the reason she would not go back Turn to Page 10 From Page 1 was she was frightened of him because he used to beat her .
21 The home of the Ba was the body in the tomb , but it was able to go out freely and bring back life to the body and thus preserve the deceased 's identity on earth .
22 Months before , bringing back life to the earth .
23 From this last question I realised that he thought Leslie had been a member of the Special Operations Executive ( S.O.E. ) , whose agents , trained in Britain and flown or dropped into France , worked in association with local groups , and sent back information to London .
24 ‘ The DUC operated as a kind of umbrella organization and there was a little group in all the different localities where uranium prospecting was going on … and each of these groups had their own little committee of two or three people who were feeding back information to the DUC and it was a real grassroots organization then . ’
25 Focusing upon problem emotions means that the counsellor has to be able to pass back information to the counsellee .
26 The link nurses meet regularly , take a special interest in , and strive to enhance , DN expertise in leg ulcer management by feeding back information to all DNs in their patches .
27 Their duties were varied : to send back information to England , to negotiate with the government to which they were accredited , and , occasionally , to stir up trouble abroad .
28 In vitro experiments show back titration to be very accurate and precise in determining the alkali content of standard bicarbonate solutions .
29 He toured Western China and Tibet on his bicycle , paying his way by developing the many photographs he had taken in local universities and sending them back north to paying customers .
30 But I 'm really looking forward to moving back north to Scotland when the job 's done . ’
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