Example sentences of "back [prep] [art] [noun pl] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The supply chain project seeks to achieve this by focusing on future customer needs and driving them back through the activities of the business to make Guinness Brewing GB operate as effectively as possible for the company and its customers . |
| 2 | The gipsies looked so threatening that she thought they were going to attack Angela 's father , but Farmer Yatton stood his ground , and presently the gipsies , grumbling loudly , began to move their horses , which they had unharnessed , back between the shafts of the caravans . |
| 3 | But its annual surpluses ( $56 billion in fiscal 1989 ) are added back for the purposes of the Gramm-Rudman deficit-cutting law . |
| 4 | We can dust off the Rambo movies , and Mikhail Gorbachev can sit back amid the ruins of the Soviet empire and watch how a superpower really behaves . |
| 5 | Slowly she walked back towards the gates of the Hall . |
| 6 | As they set off she realized they were n't driving back towards the restaurants of the town centre and Willi 's beloved Franz Joseph hotel , but up to the mountain road that led over the pass and into the next valley . |
| 7 | Then he swallowed and leaned back against the cushions of the sofa , stretching his long , white-clad legs out in front of him . |
| 8 | Although Nato and Warsaw Pact forces would be cut back under the terms of the Conventional Force Agreement now under negotiation in Vienna , each alliance would retain a military presence in its part of the German confederation . |
| 9 | This led to a great setback for the Company ; by the early 1680s it seemed to have established itself , and paid its first dividends , at about 50 per cent a year , but it was then caught up in England 's wars against France , the bases were captured , and no regular dividends could be paid until after it had got its property back under the terms of the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 . |
| 10 | Similarly , Charlie 's incarnation as a Norse explorer among the Skroelings , ending when a man who seems to be Erik the Red took his crew and ‘ steered them for three days among floating ice , each floe crowded with strange beasts that ‘ tried to sail with us , ’ said Charlie , ‘ and we beat them back with the handles of the oars ’ surely relates to the long sea voyage , an account of which originally formed the bulk of the ‘ Death by Water ’ section . |
| 11 | But Exodus 1.8 read , ‘ Now there arose a new king over Egypt , who did not know Joseph , ’ and then began the story of Egyptian brutality and oppression to which we have already referred , and after that we are back with the tales of the Israelites ' stubborn complaining in the wilderness with which we have become so familiar . |
| 12 | With one twiddle of a button , the colour flooded back into the faces of the soap stars on screen and the owner sprang back in feigned amazement . |
| 13 | She felt the fence give a little and then it literally threw her back into the arms of the man with the mask . |
| 14 | Mrs Reynolds was in the doorway , almost ready herself to go to the wedding — she never missed a wedding or a funeral — but seeing the procession that approached withdrew back into the shadows of the room to observe better the old cockerel go by followed by his dismayed pullets . |
| 15 | I shrank back into the shadows of the alley and saw people passing by on the sidewalk . |
| 16 | Rose with three men ambushed a couple of trucks one evening , killing 12 men before melting back into the shadows of the scrub . |
| 17 | She took a step back into the shadows of the hallway and watched the other woman , her heart beating strangely . |
| 18 | After a time ( or if disturbed ) this living globe breaks up and disappears like a rain of silver back into the depths of the sea . |
| 19 | His merciless tone brought a spark of uncertainty back into the eyes of the Prophet . |
| 20 | But as the news leaked back from the trenches of the horror and futile brutality of the Great War , the mood changed to one of sorrow and mistrust , and even an old trouper like Baden-Powell could not hide his feelings . |
| 21 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 22 | The evening light came through the skylights high overhead , glossing the scurfy backs , the sores , the scabby manes , and a soft echo came back from the walls of the vast , bare concrete building of animal content , feeding . |
| 23 | Glossy blue-black , heavily built , they twisted and turned in unison , deep croaks echoing back from the walls of the ravine . |
| 24 | She had never heard him scream like it , the dreadful sound echoed back from the sides of the skip and his fists were hard as little rocks . |
| 25 | AN IRA victim is back in the arms of the woman he loves — because he was injured in a bomb blast . |
| 26 | ‘ We have had to beg , steal and borrow substantial funds to put the club back in the hands of the people of Peterborough , which is where it belongs , ’ commented Turner , who moves to the boardroom as chairman . |
| 27 | At one point , towards the end of the seventeenth century , the church was possessed by Daniel Disney who turned it into a Presbyterian Meeting House but by 1812 it was back in the hands of the Church of England again . |
| 28 | A spokesman said that Mr Fontana had put his mandate back in the hands of the prime minister , Giuliano Amato . |
| 29 | Back in the days of the Wild West when it really was wild , the James gang — led by those notorious outlaws Jesse and Frank James — used the same approach when robbing banks . |
| 30 | Again , like back in the days of the civil rights demonstrations , it 's just another attempt at turning events around and shifting the focus from the real issues at hand ’ — Arrested Development 's Aerie Taree , resident on campus at Atlanta University , itself placed under curfew after demonstrations against the Rodney King verdict |