Example sentences of "be [verb] back [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have , they will be drawing back on most things . |
| 2 | The French or Gallica roses are probably the oldest cultivated roses of European origin , and can arguably be traced back for 3,000 years . |
| 3 | It was much used in mediaeval times in Britain and , indeed , its use can be traced back for 3,000 years . |
| 4 | It is a fundamental concept that can be traced back to earliest times . |
| 5 | As the modern term for this genre the word fabliau can be traced back to scholarly writing of the seventeenth century . |
| 6 | But of course these tendencies can be traced back to earlier stages in his development ; and the Ode to Duty — ‘ Me this unchartered freedom tires ’ — was written the year before . |
| 7 | Quinn 's line of thought can be traced back to earlier works such as those of Lindblom ( 1959 ) and Wrapp ( 1967 ) , but he took these general ideas and turned them into a framework for observing organization behaviour and then into practical recommendations for the chief executive who is responsible for strategic change . |
| 8 | A useful feature of Halsbury is the ‘ Destination Table , ’ which will be found at the end of some consolidating Acts and which enables the provisions of the Act to be traced back to earlier legislation . |
| 9 | The authoritarian philosophy can be traced back to sixteenth-century England , where strict controls were imposed on the publication of what were regarded by the king and his advisers as seditious pamphlets and journals . |
| 10 | Hospitals were to become a setting later in the decade for ‘ Doctor ’ films , ‘ Carry Ons ’ and such tepid dramas as Behind the Mask ( 1958 ) , but the genre can be traced back to White Corridors ( 1951 ) where , amidst the routine romantic squabbles , and an occasional lecture on the working of the NHS , two strong stories evolve : a researcher develops a drug that will kill infections resistant to penicillin and his lover secures herself a registrar 's post against nepotistic competition , by skilfully operating on a patient her rival has misdiagnosed . |
| 11 | It is a church whose authority lies in its age and its preservation of a form of worship which can be traced back through two millennia . |
| 12 | These stages , linked to the known planets , can be traced back through medieval literature to the ancients . |
| 13 | And they 've also agreed that any alteration of the plan will be referred back to this Council for their consideration . |
| 14 | Because you know both parties were there to make sure that er there was going to be a mutual agreement or it may in some instances be referred back to domestic level for resolution , or alternately , the employers just said , no and that , that was the end of it at that stage . |
| 15 | Where it was found that middle peasants had been encroached upon , where it was found that middle peasants had been dispossessed erm that position would be rectified and that would be given back to middle peasants . |
| 16 | In December 1970 it received a coat of standard blue paint only to be repainted back into two tone green recently by the dedicated staff at Immingham depot . |
| 17 | The main part of the building faced the lake , and the half-glassed partition of the western wall could be rolled back in decent weather to allow a dozen or more tables to be set in the open air , right out over the water . |
| 18 | The state is to be rolled back in some areas and rolled forward in others … |
| 19 | By contrast , occasional reference will be made back to other East Asian examples . |
| 20 | I 'm sure our successors will be looking back at those acquisitions as good ones ! |
| 21 | Now Gloucester rugby fans wo n't be looking back on this season for any misty eyed memories … |
| 22 | If the ‘ Sid ’ allocation is oversubscribed 2.25 times , further shares will be scooped back from domestic institutions . |
| 23 | Some parents fear their children could be moved back into mainstream education to compete on unfair terms with normal children . |
| 24 | They would be drawn back to that table and its shining glass , nothing was more certain . |
| 25 | We have also made it very clear that upon the signing of a cease fire , but not before , all coalition forces will be drawn back from Iraqi territory that we currently occupy . |
| 26 | ‘ You wo n't be going back to civilian life for the time being . ’ |
| 27 | At the moment six children would be going back into middle school in September . |
| 28 | All first teamers are on standby … 18 in the squad … there 'll be no John Durnin he 's suspended … but Les Phillips is almost certain to be called back into first team action … |
| 29 | On 7 July Amedeo wrote a card to his mother telling her , somewhat cruelly , that as Italy was now in the war , he had thought that he might be called back for military service , even though he was an invalid and had felt a slight desire to return to Italy . |
| 30 | The system also ‘ stores ’ details of the last 5,000 lightning strikes , and this data can be played back in accelerated fashion , enabling pilots to track the movement of thunderstorms . |