Example sentences of "to go back on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This appeared to go back on the health white paper , which had stated in a detailed working document : ‘ Legislation will be needed in order to require FPCs ( family practitioner committees ) and RHAs to keep to their drug budgets . ’ |
| 2 | Candidates include : the inability or unwillingness of the Federal Reserve to stem the banking panic and maintain the money supply ; the failure to use fiscal policy intelligently ( up to and including Franklin Roosevelt 's New Deal after 1933 ) ; the uses and abuses of the gold standard ( Britain deciding to go back on the gold standard in 1925 at the pre-1914 parity , then deciding to come off the standard altogether in 1931 ; the refusal of many countries , especially America , to follow gold-standard rules ) ; the outbreak of trade war sparked by America 's Smoot-Hawley tariffs in 1930 ; and so on . |
| 3 | More to the point , it would cost more to cancel Concorde than the relatively paltry £17 million it would cost to go back on the Channel Tunnel . |
| 4 | ‘ You 'll be able to go back on the streets , ’ she said . |
| 5 | He looked at her sharply and she realized what she 'd said , but met his gaze determined not to go back on the promise to herself . |
| 6 | ‘ Now they are working hard to get me fit enough to go back on the list — and they 're the only ones giving me hope , ’ says Anthony . |
| 7 | Burhanuddin Rabbani , leader of the moderate Sunni Moslem Jamiat-i-Islami , took over the presidency of the interim government on June 28 from Seghbatullah Mujjaddedi , despite earlier suggestions that Mujjaddedi was seeking to go back on the April 24 Peshawar power-sharing accord reached by seven Sunni Moslem mujaheddin groups in Pakistan following the overthrow of the Soviet-backed Najibullah regime [ see pp. 38847 ; 38915 ] . |
| 8 | And … a Fish called Zander : Just when you thought it was safe to go back on the water … here comes Jaws ' little brother . |
| 9 | The reforms could also mean that the most experienced specialist officers , such as police divers , would have to go back on the beat . |
| 10 | Canon Wright said : ‘ I believe that to go back on the progress that was made in the convention would be a retrograde step , for what is going to replace it ? ’ |
| 11 | Well some of them came by road and RAF trucks , the fuselages , and then there were all they started at the top of the airfield in the old flying club pavilion , and then they were er stripped down and stuff was taken off them , checked out , for airworthiness to see whether it was ready to go back on the planes , and then they came down to the back of the top hanger which was then they were all down to the skeleton of the aircraft and they started rebuilding them again like , there were engine shops and the place at the bottom hanger where they used to make the Swallow side-cars was the spraying and where they completed the aircraft . |