Example sentences of "are [verb] back from the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Burned by their experience of the volatility of the capital markets , many leading banks such as Bank of America and Lloyds are pulling back from the periphery of their systems to defend their home bases .
2 The arrows in the drawing are moving back from the boundary of the information field to the centre .
3 The studios are set back from the road and are shaded by the olive trees from which they derive their name .
4 Abraham has passed the test , Isaac is saved , and the purposes of God are brought back from the edge of the abyss .
5 When you are working back from the cosine , sine or tangent you do n't know which of the 2 possible angles is correct .
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