Example sentences of "[is] [verb] back [prep] the [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 | The ageing NI team is looking back on the key events of the last decade of the millennium . |
| 5 | Assessment is likely to have educational value , however , only if the outcome is fed back to the senior house officer . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | My attention is drawn back to the unpleasant here and now by a banging gavel : thunder shakes the firmament . |
| 8 | Then the resulting vector is transformed back to the relevant frame at P ' . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | KEVIN McGARRITY is going back to the British Vauxhall Lotus championship — and back to the team he quit midway through last season . |
| 12 | Pete Jones returns to the front row and Andy Deacon is called back as the other prop |
| 13 | Thus if light can not escape , neither can anything else ; everything is dragged back by the gravitational field . |
| 14 | He is moving back towards the bad practice of selective tax shelters , which Mr Lawson had undermined in his five years as chancellor . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The house is set back from the main road and has wonderful views of the surrounding farmland . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The hotel has wonderful gardens full of olive trees and is set back from the main lakeside road , about 700 yards from Brenzone . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | In consequence , the Committee is forced back upon the classical model , despite the consistent tendency elsewhere in its pages to accord to English an educational validity independent from and at least equal to classics . |
| 24 | And I do n't think everybody 's going around in eastern Europe thinking oh what we need is to get back to the old Stalinist system where you , you know , you had someone telling you what to do all the time . |
| 25 | A second factor which I 'd like to raise , and please stop me , sir , if I 'm not playing your ground rules here , is to get back to the original point made by Mr Davis , as to how this figure is going to be split between the districts , I think it 's absolutely essential that this figure is split between the districts , and it may well be , if you decide , sir , to recommend in favour of the new settlement that you may have to leave that as a floating figure to go around the districts , at the moment it is not . |
| 26 | ( c ) The charge If the conveyance or transfer does not fall within the provisions of s83 , one is thrown back on the previous stamp duty position : ( i ) conveyance or transfer on sale This incurs a charge to ad valorem stamp duty at 1 per cent unless the conveyance can be certified at £60,000 or less ( see below ) ( Finance Act 1984 , s109 and Finance Act 1993 ) ; or ( ii ) conveyance or transfer " of any other kind " In such a case fixed stamp duty of 50p is payable unless the instrument can be certified as being one within The Stamp Duty ( Exempt Instruments ) Regulations 1987 ( SI No 516 ) . |