Example sentences of "[noun sg] is [verb] back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If all is satisfactory the credit card is handed back to the customer with a copy of the sales voucher and a receipted bill . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Next the first capacitor is connected back to the input so that a fresh sample voltage is taken . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But gradually the blood is drawn back into the body and the veins harden into rigid struts that will give the wing its strength . |
| 7 | Larger gravel is discharged back into the river . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Too often , however , the academic progress of the gifted child is held back by the way classrooms and teaching are organised . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The ageing NI team is looking back on the key events of the last decade of the millennium . |
| 13 | For example , if a first-generation hybrid between a brown and an albino mouse is crossed back to an albino , the offspring will be in the ratio 1 brown to 1 albino : if two hybrids are mated to one another , the ratio will be 3 brown to 1 albino . |
| 14 | My attention is drawn back to the unpleasant here and now by a banging gavel : thunder shakes the firmament . |
| 15 | Not surprisingly , her main aim is to move back to the area where her family live — preferably to buy a house there . |
| 16 | The tax is claimed back from the Tax Office by either the college or the Association , or both . |
| 17 | Assessment is likely to have educational value , however , only if the outcome is fed back to the senior house officer . |
| 18 | Malcolm Dalkin of LV Motors , who produce the Aerogen wind generator range , maintains that if a tiny trickle charge is put back into a yacht 's batteries it will both maintain their performance and could increase their lifespan by two or three years . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | In such a representation each terminal branch in the tree is linked back to the branches for word beginnings . |
| 21 | Pete Jones returns to the front row and Andy Deacon is called back as the other prop |
| 22 | The flow rate is adjustable , and so is the angle at which the water is pumped back into the tank — upward or downward as well as to either side . |
| 23 | Finally output is switched back to the second camera which is focussed on the forest clearing . |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | Old Coffin is going back to the sherry table . |
| 26 | The signal is converted back into an analogue waveform just before it is fed to the picture tube and loudspeakers . |
| 27 | An example of this in the classical theory of general relativity is provided by a black hole , which is a region of space-time in which the gravitational field is so strong that any light or other signal is dragged back into the region and can not escape to the outside world . |
| 28 | The Bill is reported back to the whole House as amended . |
| 29 | One young man is leaning back upon a seat , dead drunk . |
| 30 | But this huntsman , for all the energy and élan of his posture , is maimed : his crippled right leg is bent back at the knee and supported on some sort of crutch . |