Example sentences of "back on the [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Persian forces crossed the river Araxes in mid-July 1826 and forced Russia 's frontier troops to fall back on the Georgian capital of Tiflis ( Tbilisi ) . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , unless we are to fall back on the unsatisfactory practice of listing verbs which do support the construction and those which do not , some other factor must be waiting to be discovered , which will help to explain why ( 56 ) and ( 67 ) seem outright ungrammatical , and yet we can have either of ( 68 ) and ( 69 ) : ( 68 ) Tania left despondently ( 69 ) Tania left despondent To conclude , we may point out that there will clearly be a close connexion , under certain choices of lexical items , between the surface construction ( 44 ) and ordinary predicative position . |
| 3 | The ageing NI team is looking back on the key events of the last decade of the millennium . |
| 4 | At worst , one could fall back on the immediate family of brothers and cousins to protect the individual , if only by helping to pay up to meet the demands of the tax collector . |
| 5 | The answer is not to fall back on the offensive utilisation of a harmless birthday , but to write into constitutions strict regulations about terms of appointment . |
| 6 | I lay back on the hot canvas of a recliner and closed my eyes , soaking it in . |
| 7 | I have done little to remedy that myself , except to fall back on the preferred notion of level , which at least can begin to explicate how things can be reached by effort at some times but not others . |
| 8 | The doctor and the priest , stepping back on the other side of the room , murmured to each other . |
| 9 | Now Hewlett Packard , IBM , and DEC are all back on the other side of the fence . |
| 10 | Sidney Sheldon 's The Stars Shine Down ( Fontana ) is back on The Other Side of Midnight Form . |
| 11 | The BAA now says that new British legislation is vital to put the code back on the right side of the law . |
| 12 | IBM Corp has now fallen back on the reliable method of pre-announcement for its OS/2 promotion campaign . |
| 13 | She looked back on the whole expanse of land |
| 14 | Peace People development co-ordinator Patrick Corrigan looks back on the mass rallies of 1976 . |
| 15 | It is difficult to believe in the political naivete of judges , but Sir John Donaldson , president of the NIRC , looking back on the short history of that court , has expressed views which are bewildering in their ingenuousness . |