Example sentences of "back to a " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Ideally we would like to go back to a site a few months after installation , for a meeting with senior management to show them how they can take advantage of the system , ’ Chudley says . |
2 | Conifers other than yew usually resent harsh treatment , however , and are difficult to rejuvenate , Deciduous species are best pruned hard back in late winter , evergreens in late spring — cutting one side a year back to a foot within the intended final width to allow room for regrowth . |
3 | Going back to a big house and long lawns , Jen ? said Michael Morrissey 's eyes last week . |
4 | The hourly off-peak service from Euston to Liverpool and Manchester was an early casualty when the service was cut back to a ninety-minute headway , but the most far-reaching change concerned the Anglo-Scottish services between Euston and Glasgow . |
5 | If their work is seasonal , do n't forget to change them back to a standard adult food ( so-called ‘ maintenance food ’ ) when they 're not working . |
6 | ‘ In no way are we going back to a 1979-80 recession . |
7 | Widnes were back to a full complement of players by the time Tony Thorniley scored Warrington 's second , again from an inspired Mackey pass , but the visitors were powerless to prevent the centre reaching the line from 25 yards . |
8 | If the employee has been working for you for up to eight weeks and does not have a linking letter or a Leaver 's statement , phone your Social Security office and ask if the start of the PIW you are dealing with links back to a claim to a Social Security benefit . |
9 | With the Tories moving on to more radical positions , and the Labour Party now much more centrist , logic seemed to dictate that this kind of Alliance supporter should move back to a Social Democratic outlook identical with that of old Gaitskellites . |
10 | I do not mean being reactionary , simply going back to a past state of affairs , I mean reaction as the antithesis of action . |
11 | back to a cigarette on a luxury movie-house carpet |
12 | The first time I went back to a lake where I used to go as a child . |
13 | And via a now explicit association with anality , especially sodomy , homosexuality becomes a paradigm of sterility and solipsism , while heterosexuality is regarded as the way back to a dynamic , creative encounter with the other : in the woman the man embraces ‘ all that is not himself ’ and from that embrace ‘ comes every new action ’ ( quoted in Delany , Nightmare , 79 ) . |
14 | Authentic selfhood is denied and then reconstituted in a perverse , parodic form — and then perhaps denied again , transformed from other to same and then back to a ( ditferent ) other . |
15 | Surprisingly , the turning point that saw a struggling business transformed into a trendsetting group that has become a household name can be traced back to a Dutch merchant banker , who persuaded Conran to widen his horizons . |
16 | Eastern winds have brought what had been fair sport back to a normal level for the time of year . |
17 | This brings us back to a central theme of Sport and the British : the extraordinary degree to which it has been promoted privately without politicians , employers , or trade unionists taking a significant part except as enthusiastic individual sportsmen . |
18 | This story took my mind back to a survey on driving that was published a while ago on the differences between men and women behind the wheel . |
19 | However , they are taking heart that it is now back to a comfortable 250 per cent . |
20 | Mint turns the clock back to a time when sovereign was king of coins . |
21 | However , they are taking heart that it is now back to a comfortable 250 per cent . |
22 | Mint turns the clock back to a time when sovereign was king of coins . |
23 | Mint turns the clock back to a time when sovereigns were king coins . |
24 | BACK to a festive original ; or , if not quite Garrick or Grimaldi , at least H. J. Byron . |
25 | This Trumping of the souvenir market goes back to a boyhood in Portsmouth and a hobby of collecting shells and making creatures out of them . |
26 | On each occasion , however , the currents flowing in world affairs swung Defence policy back to a more balanced Maritime/Continental course . |
27 | Nevertheless , there was general agreement on all sides that Sandys had overstepped the line between sensible and imprudent change , and that it was time to shift the emphasis away from the nuclear end of the spectrum of War and back to a more balanced , central position . |
28 | If a salmon comes back to a river after a year , it is known as a grilse , and — weighing anything from one to four kilograms — is ready for the pot or skillet or foil jacket . |
29 | There is no ‘ murmuring ’ with them , no wild complaining , no harking back to a mis-remembered past , no rebellion . |
30 | From then on she taught herself always to sit sideways or with her back to a person . ’ |