Example sentences of "[is] [verb] back [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 If you have genuine difficulty in keeping to the diet in this book or any other diet , your best bet is to go back to the calorie-counting method , supervised by a diet club , dietitian , or doctor .
2 The Bill is reported back to the whole House as amended .
3 When the penis is stimulated by touch , the " feeling message " is carried back to the spinal cord at the sacral level from which the nerves emerge .
4 I 've mentioned it to him and what he 's saying is come back with a firm proposal .
5 The ageing NI team is looking back on the key events of the last decade of the millennium .
6 Assessment is likely to have educational value , however , only if the outcome is fed back to the senior house officer .
7 Will he take a personal interest in stopping this scandalous dumping and make sure that the overshoot is clawed back during the next two years , the time remaining to the EC-Chinese trade agreement ?
8 Examples included direct imitation , expansion of the child 's utterance into a phrase or sentence which captures the child 's intended meaning , extensions which include a novel contribution , and recastings in which the child 's meaning is reflected back in a different syntactical form ( see Chapter 10 ) .
9 Suddenly , after a century of realism and what Rice calls ‘ little Protestant novels ’ , the tide is turning back towards the fantastical , towards ‘ magic , the extreme and the eccentric ’ .
10 My attention is drawn back to the unpleasant here and now by a banging gavel : thunder shakes the firmament .
11 Then the resulting vector is transformed back to the relevant frame at P ' .
12 First the next coupon payment is added to ( 8.8 ) and then the whole sum is discounted back to the first day of the delivery month .
13 However , she only keeps it for a few weeks before it is handed back to the new Lady Mayoress by the sheriff for the price of a kiss .
14 Having got rid of its international stores chain with the spin-off of InterTan Inc , Tandy Corp is heading back into the international market again and says it expects to open a second SuperCenter store in Stockholm , Sweden in the third quarter ; the company already operates a third SuperCenter in Copenhagen .
15 It says , everything they 're doing , it says , is going back to the eighteenth century , when you hear about these Kath Catherine Cookson days , working for pennies and you ca n't get educated
16 KEVIN McGARRITY is going back to the British Vauxhall Lotus championship — and back to the team he quit midway through last season .
17 It is incredible that the Labour party , which has reformed itself and brought itself up to date in so many other policies , is going back to an old policy on local government finance .
18 Pete Jones returns to the front row and Andy Deacon is called back as the other prop
19 Thus if light can not escape , neither can anything else ; everything is dragged back by the gravitational field .
20 He is moving back towards the bad practice of selective tax shelters , which Mr Lawson had undermined in his five years as chancellor .
21 It 's getting back to a sensible level again , and the music — especially the British music — is really pushing forward . ’
22 This large , impressive hotel is set back from the main road in its own grounds , and clients can walk into Going or Ellmau in around 10–15 minutes .
23 Behind the church , which is set back from the main road and screened by trees , a sequestered lane soon passes the large hole of Hurtle Pot .
24 The house is set back from the main road and has wonderful views of the surrounding farmland .
25 It is set back from the main road , has a small shopping centre and typically Italian lakeside cafés , and is linked to the other lake resorts by steamers .
26 Situated about half a mile from the centre of Riva , the Parc Hotel Flora is set back from the main road , next to a highly popular ice-cream parlour under the same management .
27 The hotel has wonderful gardens full of olive trees and is set back from the main lakeside road , about 700 yards from Brenzone .
28 Using a closed-loop ministep control with rotor position obtained by waveform detection , however , the phase currents can be adjusted so that the rotor is pulled back to the demanded position , giving a system which has effectively infinite stiffness ( Fig. 7.1 5b ) .
29 One is brought back to the fundamental conclusion that throughout the Primary years it is the children 's activity that is the key to full development .
30 Dressed in intriguingly pinkish-blue Levi 501s ( ‘ I put them in the washing machine with a pink sweatshirt ’ ) and a lemon coloured blouse , her hair 's pulled back into a simple ponytail .
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