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

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1 The Bill is reported back to the whole House as amended .
2 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 .
3 I 've mentioned it to him and what he 's saying is come back with a firm proposal .
4 Assessment is likely to have educational value , however , only if the outcome is fed back to the senior house officer .
5 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 ?
6 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 ) .
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 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 .
10 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 .
11 Pete Jones returns to the front row and Andy Deacon is called back as the other prop
12 Thus if light can not escape , neither can anything else ; everything is dragged back by the gravitational field .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 The house is set back from the main road and has wonderful views of the surrounding farmland .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 The hotel has wonderful gardens full of olive trees and is set back from the main lakeside road , about 700 yards from Brenzone .
19 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 ) .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 In April each of the canes seen protruding starkly from the ground in February is cut back to the second bud and stakes are planted for their support .
23 The signal is converted back into an analogue waveform just before it is fed to the picture tube and loudspeakers .
24 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 .
25 now when it comes to hard luck stories … or ripping sporting yarns … the tale of Oxford University 's Audley Lumsden takes some beating … on Tuesday at Twickenham he wins his blue in the annual varsity game … some achievement for a man who 's fought back from a broken neck and two fractured ankles
26 Finally output is switched back to the second camera which is focussed on the forest clearing .
27 ( 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 ) .
28 In a deep trance , the subject is taken back to an earlier age , in order to discover the possible cause of a problem , such as a phobia , or a psychological reason for a physiological condition , which , on the surface , appears to have no organic cause .
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