Example sentences of "be [verb] back in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next psychological breakpoint is the 1,000dpi mark which was the point at which digital phototypesetting began to be accepted back in the late 60s and through the 70s . |
| 2 | Housing was the first of the public sector programmes to be tied back in the 1960s . |
| 3 | The majority , the huge majority , were to be shipped back in the same closed trains to the Motherland of Russia . |
| 4 | I think the answer is to be found back in the basic theory . |
| 5 | When there is this kind of historical development of a signal system it is important that it should not be read back in the exclusive terms of later signals . |
| 6 | Every time I come here I begin to worry that I have somehow crossed into another stream and am sailing back in the opposite direction . |
| 7 | My next book was due to have been a literary novel but that 's been put back in the top drawer . |
| 8 | As it turned out , the principal had caught the other boys , and they were all being marched back in the front door of the school , but Mouse did n't know that . |
| 9 | But they were pegged back in the 41st minute when John Bumstead scored with a diving header from Scott Minto ’ s centre . |
| 10 | When my parents ' generation were marrying back in the 1920s not everyone had cars and the best man 's responsibility was to organize transport for all the guests . |
| 11 | These fields in humans were discovered back in the 1940s and 1950s . |
| 12 | Her breasts were stranded back in the fifties . |
| 13 | The lay-out of the town had been established back in the twelfth century when a new market place had replaced the old , congested commercial area alongside the church . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Her black hair was swept back in the careless style that only the most expensive hairdressing can give . |
| 16 | Now she was sunk back in the same state , or perilously near to it . |