Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [verb] back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Note that only some of the additional text rows created by lexicographic activity in the Working-Set are copied back to the Main Database . |
| 2 | The forces of Chaos are driven back for a time and a fragile peace descends on Ulthuan . |
| 3 | Just as in reverse discourse the categories of subordination are turned back upon the regimes of truth which disqualify , so this ‘ other ’ sensibility is in part affirmed as an inversion and absence of sensibility 's traditional criteria . |
| 4 | The arrows in the drawing are moving back from the boundary of the information field to the centre . |
| 5 | Relegation followed , and the hopelessly over-stretched club were sliding back towards the Fourth Division when Toshack resigned in 1984 . |
| 6 | If all is satisfactory the credit card is handed back to the customer with a copy of the sales voucher and a receipted bill . |
| 7 | As body weight is transferred back to the centre of the machine , lifting the bike still further , the rider heaves himself forward over the front . |
| 8 | If he takes an ( optical ) photograph of the wall he will have a snap of featureless plaster , as the light is reflected back from the surface and not from inside the structure . |
| 9 | Next the first capacitor is connected back to the input so that a fresh sample voltage is taken . |
| 10 | Money from the rent of the gymnasium is put back into the company to pay for repairs , contract window-cleaning and other matters of mutual concern . |
| 11 | But gradually the blood is drawn back into the body and the veins harden into rigid struts that will give the wing its strength . |
| 12 | Larger gravel is discharged back into the river . |
| 13 | Her glance was drawn back to the bed again when , clearly befuddled , and with no idea how he came to be where he was , he slurred , ‘ How did I get here ? ’ |
| 14 | The stranger was led back through the empty trains to the car shed pits where he could gain access to the street . |
| 15 | The card was borne back on a silver tray . |
| 16 | Miroslav Stepan , former Communist Party secretary in Prague , was sentenced on Oct. 22 to 30 months ' imprisonment following confirmation by an appeal court of his July conviction on charges of abuse of power connected with the suppression of a Prague demonstration on Oct. 28 , 1988 ; a second charge relating to a January 1989 demonstration was referred back to the Prosecutor 's Office [ for his conviction and initial sentence of four years ' imprisonment see p. 37737 ] . |
| 17 | After measurements had been carried out under each of these conditions , the metre rule was moved back towards the experimenter so that the subject could see his/her finger when pointing . |
| 18 | The only other alternative was to go back to the cottage , as well he 'd known . |
| 19 | The fabrics side was held back by a decline in demand for batiks in West Africa . |
| 20 | Bigwig was racing back across the field , looking more agitated than he had at any time since the encounter with Captain Holly . |
| 21 | The bug was traced back to the Farmoor treatment works which only started supplying Swindon from last August . |
| 22 | Wooden shutters of washed-out blue and green were folded back against the walls to show thick , beautifully patterned lace at the windows . |
| 23 | Radiation emitted by the electron is transformed back to the laboratory frame , and is concentrated in to a narrow cone around the forward direction ( c ) , generating a ( Doppler ) frequency upshift ( γ ) . |
| 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 | Too often , however , the academic progress of the gifted child is held back by the way classrooms and teaching are organised . |
| 26 | supervision and they 're used until the head of the femur right , the head of the femur is fixed back into the socket joint and the muscles and ligaments have tightened up so that they hold the bone in place and treatment can go on until they 're about a year the consequences of not treating this condition are quite severe , the child will grow up with a very odd gait . |
| 27 | The Peke-faced cat was known back in the 1930s , but the other three were all discovered in the 1960s and were quickly established by enthusiastic local breeders , delighted to be founding new lines of pedigree cats . |
| 28 | Disagreement arose within the PLO regarding its composition and the issue was referred back to the Executive Committee . |
| 29 | In the earlier book he had proposed an additional reversion to classical principles : that the focus of attention be switched back from the criminal to the crime . |
| 30 | Evenwood were pegged back by a Darren Rawlston goal at home to Billingham Town after Sean Monaghan had put them ahead . |