Example sentences of "clock back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some might say it presents an idealistic picture of family life ; others that it is a reactionary attempt to turn the clock back on the women 's movement ; yet others might argue that she has gone beyond the available evidence in concluding , or at least implying , that delinquency might result from early day-care experiences . |
| 2 | Oliver hung the clock back on the kitchen wall . |
| 3 | Mint turns the clock back to a time when sovereign was king of coins . |
| 4 | Mint turns the clock back to a time when sovereign was king of coins . |
| 5 | Mint turns the clock back to a time when sovereigns were king coins . |
| 6 | To attempt to resurrect — or , more likely in her view , invent — the old national groups was entirely reactionary , to turn the clock back to a past economic system , and to attempt by this means to frustrate the proletarian revolution . |
| 7 | Anyway , even if one wanted to , one could n't put the clock back to an earlier age . |
| 8 | It was an unhappy start to what proved to be a contentious relationship , with Lugard wanting to turn the clock back to the days of his undisputed pre-eminence , and Temple , whose sense of his own consequence was equally developed , treating him as primus ( barely ) inter pares . |
| 9 | He provides the influence they needed and , together with the best centre-back combination in England , Steve Bould and Tony Adams , the Dane 's strength has turned the clock back to the season when Arsenal last won the title through defensive ability . |
| 10 | The new-look lessons will turn the clock back to the 1950s — the days before learning by rote ceased to be popular in schools . |
| 11 | If we turn the clock back to the beginning of the desktop publishing marketplace in order to trace its development and evolution we first need to establish exactly what desktop publishing was conceived as being in the first place . |
| 12 | To understand the problems of font clashes it is worth turning the clock back to the very first Macintosh system . |
| 13 | Turning the clock back to the point immediately before computers got involved in the publishing business there were only two real technologies at work ; hot metal and cold metal . |
| 14 | This accounts for the attempts of fiercely traditional societies , for instance those based upon fundamental islamic principles , to turn the clock back to the past . |
| 15 | Was n't this turning the clock back to the days of the old non-advanced courses ? |
| 16 | The Broadisland Gathering is turning the clock back to the early 1600s when the area was settled by Scots Lowlanders . |
| 17 | So perhaps God had turned the clock back in a very God-like way . |