Example sentences of "back at the [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking back at the stormy relationship of a few years ago , he realised how much she had mellowed . |
| 2 | A glance back at the collective situation of first generation Caribbeans in the UK is enough to understand why black parents do not encourage their children 's sporting endeavours . |
| 3 | As the Docklands beer festival fades from view , Martyn Cornell looks back at the sad demise of brewing in the Cockney heartland |
| 4 | Laura took in the boundless wealth surrounding her , the possibilities of power , she gazed back at the golden coffin of the false messiah and back at Jonathan . |
| 5 | He poured out , sat back at the other end of the sofa , looked at her . |
| 6 | But by looking back at the archaic phase of Greek history and forward to later autocrats , as we have done with the Sicilian tyrants , we can remind ourselves that the democratic interludes of Greek history were not merely short but untypical — in Syracuse , Macedon , Cyrene and satrapal Asia Minor one-man rule was normal for much of the period 479–323 BC . |
| 7 | Looking back at the tangled web of confused events we can see that the answer had already emerged . |
| 8 | If we look back at the previous example of the combustion of methane , we see that the enthalpy term was far larger than the entropy term . |
| 9 | Beyond the glass there was a sporadically placed ring of guards and dogs who seemed uncertain as to whether to stare back at the distorted press of faces at the glass panes , or whether to watch instead the spiral column of smoke and the flames that played at its heels . |
| 10 | Back at the stratospheric level of government , Bridges pursued the problem of the performance of the Cabinet system with Attlee and recorded a note of the conversation which took place in No. 10 on 26 July 1946 : |
| 11 | It may be questioned whether this change achieves very much of a practical nature since ( a ) one still needs to look back at the common law of detinue to determine what constitutes the new form of conversion and ( b ) there still survive two torts of interference with property which have a considerable overlap with conversion , i.e . |
| 12 | Rachaela made herself look back at the white face of her child . |
| 13 | Wistfully , I looked back at the haunting beauty of the well . |
| 14 | Crossing the bridge , look back at the romantic view of the palaces backing on to the canal . |