Example sentences of "back [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slemen added : ‘ We accept we must take a back seat to the national side , but we are still determined to succeed where the Midlands and England B failed . ’ |
| 2 | The Economic and Social Research Council has cut back work on the 1991 census and its ‘ positive health ’ centre for health promotion . |
| 3 | Frustrated at this set-back Azhag headed south , where the horde wreaked havoc , destroying the town of Forstich before turning back east through the Great Forest and into Ostermark once more . |
| 4 | When the GTP was built , settlers had begun to develop the land along its route to such an extent that construction trains had to bring back wheat despite the unfinished nature of the track . |
| 5 | For Leconte , who only four months earlier had undergone back surgery for the third time in little more than two years , it had seen the re-birth of what was — and can be again — a gloriously entertaining , as well as effective , career . |
| 6 | It is ironic that this dual aspiration , on the one hand , to give back autonomy to the socialist writer to produce works which balance the twin exigencies of socialist ideology and literary form , and on the other , to generate as a consequence a fuller , richer , more complex depiction of reality , marks , in fact , a return to the spirit of Nizan 's understanding of socialist realism in France in the 1930s . |