Example sentences of "back to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly after we have printed the brochure , a hotelier may decide to change the meal service either to buffet style or back to traditional waiter service . |
| 2 | In the current era of food surpluses , efforts are being made to reduce production , both by political manoeuvre ( e.g. set aside and diversification ) and a return to sustainable systems of agriculture which are perceived as going back to traditional methods . |
| 3 | But it will be undesirable to put the clock back to traditional farming systems , which had to tolerate diseases , weeds and pests when there was no method of control available , even when agriculture was a labour-intensive industry . |
| 4 | May it not be the mission of Buddhism today to lead the world back to moral values and to help people everywhere to find an ethic , related to conditions in the modern world , which will gain acceptance and inspire right effort ? |
| 5 | Around 20 per cent of loans to Third World countries have been spent on arms : the weapons go to poor countries , the money back to rich ones3 . |
| 6 | The brochure stated clearly that while some children transferred back to mainstream schools , ‘ the majority remain until they are 16 years of age ’ . |
| 7 | So we 'd jump up an get one of these rabbit skins and then we 'd take it back to wholesale fruiter in Street , and get fourpence for it . |
| 8 | If we ask whether there were ancient documents which showed that the primacy went back to authoritative sources , the answer ( as I shall argue later ) is that there were documents which gave general support to the claim , sufficient to authenticate the living tradition of the community , but insufficient for use in a court of law . |
| 9 | He did not marry again until much later , when he was coming back to political life after the economic changes of 1962 , which made the shipping more important . |
| 10 | On Jan. 15 he told a news conference that the FLN regarded the HCS as " unconstitutional " ; its formation left " the way wide open for any kind of adventurism and extremist theses , [ and ] makes the road back to political stability long and arduous " . |
| 11 | Prune ramblers when flowering ends ; cut out old wood to the ground or back to young stems , and tie in new growth . |
| 12 | Whether we like it or not , and I must admit I do , Britain is back to two-and-a-bit party politics and Labour is now favourite to win the next election . |
| 13 | The political police in the Soviet Union had a long history stretching back to tsarist times . |
| 14 | She then immediately switches back to Creole to " link up " with the first part of her turn . |
| 15 | In fact the original eighteen poems of the Hardy sequence , ( in the Collected Poems of 1919 , he damagingly extended it by three extra pieces ) tell a story of the poet 's pilgrimage to his and Emma 's early haunts , matching the stages of the journey there and back to specific stages of Aeneas 's journey , in Aeneid 6 , to the abode of the blest . |
| 16 | The specific focus on care management , for example , is brief and could have been more penetrating had it related back to specific points about services made earlier . |
| 17 | At a meeting tomorrow a proposal will be put forward that the car park revert back to female use for the time being . |
| 18 | Finally a framework which stretches back to distant school days but which retains its validity is that your presentation must have a clear beginning , a middle and an end . |
| 19 | Forster slithered to Delaney and got a grip , pulling him back to comparative safety . |
| 20 | The red admiral and painted lady also need to gather their strength ready for the hazardous journey back to southern Europe and North Africa . |
| 21 | On July 7-8 some 650 Albanians who had attempted to cross without documents into the Greek districts of Ioannina and Thesprotia were likewise deported , and on July 10 some 2,800 Albanian citizens employed in Greece were sent back to southern Albania , apparently in co-ordination with the Albanian local authorities [ see also pp. 38690 ; 38775 ; 38830 ; 38920 ] . |
| 22 | So much for a tradition whose origins may be traced back to early classical times ! |
| 23 | He outlined the long connections of the New River Head site back to early in the 17th century when what was probably the first privatised water company was established by James I ( VI of Scotland ) . |
| 24 | The mix , the range and the flexibility of them relate back to early familial blueprints of how feelings were expressed , handled or avoided . |
| 25 | This despair frequently relates back to early experiences when adults were literally more powerful than children and were therefore blamed by those children for some of the awful things , real or imaginary , that happened to them . |
| 26 | The origins of this failure may go back to early parenthood . |
| 27 | Indeed the eight-way Power 4D/480 dates back to early 1989 . |
| 28 | and rushes you back to early childhood . |
| 29 | The whole Loch Tay area has a fascinating and rich history stretching back to prehistoric times , none of which I 'm prepared to share with you . |
| 30 | But we do not have to go back to prehistoric times to witness the change in our diet . |