Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] back the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is now considerable scope for pushing back the onset of morbidity in old age into fewer and fewer years with properly targeted health promotion and illness prevention policies and the widespread adoption of healthier lifestyles . |
| 2 | I should think it is working the way of bringing back the workhouse through having too much economy . ’ |
| 3 | Says Dent : ‘ The plastics industry has a tradition of pushing back the frontiers of technology . |
| 4 | Powerful groups have ways and means of clawing back the spoils of tactical defeats . |
| 5 | As concern over state expenditure mounted , governments have looked for ways of cutting back the volume of support for the railways . |
| 6 | They often represent the last vestiges of the ancient practice of hacking back the vegetation along well-used tracks . |
| 7 | But whatever the motives , the Government 's twin aims of handing back the control of unions to the individual members , and ensuring that trade unions act within bounds set by a democratic state , are ones that should have been promoted by the left . |
| 8 | The Library 's teams — winners of last year 's competition — did not fare so well this time , coming in 9th and 10th out of 14 teams , but the fishermen are hopeful of winning back the trophy for the Library next year . |
| 9 | But on this trip Gooch has not even had that pleasure and it is imperative now for England 's chances of winning back the Ashes from Australia this summer that their weary 39-year-old captain quickly recovers in health and spirit when he returns home on Saturday week . |
| 10 | The hardware of this music machine should be capable of playing back the composition in the sounds of the instruments for which it was written . |
| 11 | New discoveries have opened up all kinds of possibilities for holding back the march of time . |
| 12 | And he angrily denounced the Labour Party amendment demanding a delay in bringing back the Bill as a ‘ fraud ’ . |
| 13 | Their achievement was in pushing back the frontiers of distance running with world records . |
| 14 | Now Philips wants the EEC to take a hand in holding back the tide of Japanese machines , some of which , it says , are being ‘ dumped ’ in Europe at below cost-price . |
| 15 | The new Emperor had seen how instrumental it had been in holding back the tide of Chaos and wanted to add yet another weapon to mankind 's arsenal . |
| 16 | Mrs Thatcher also pointed to the contrast between her domestic achievements in rolling back the frontiers of the state and the prospect that if the Delors of this world have their way , power over the economy would be re-centralized in Brussels . |
| 17 | We are dedicated to experimentation , to pushing back the frontiers of football as we know them , to boldly go where no self-respecting soccer club has gone before , and no , I do not mean the Whaddon and Mitchley Sunday League . |
| 18 | 8.3.2 the date ( if any ) upon which the Premises are relet This provision is frequently included in guarantors ' covenants , probably to cover the position where the landlord has no objection to taking back the premises with a view to a future letting , but in the meantime to secure some form of rental income . |
| 19 | What is remarkable is that this heavily interventionist stance was developed by a government committed ‘ to rolling back the frontiers of the state ’ and to the values of consumerism — ‘ parents know best ’ . |
| 20 | It has , by pushing back the boundaries of human knowledge , given us much that has enriched our lives . |
| 21 | Air the bed by flinging back the covers for around half an hour every morning |
| 22 | If n is a goal node , exit successfully with the solution obtained by tracing back the pointers from n to s . |