Example sentences of "[verb] back on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Looking back on that visit , as I sometimes do , I find it difficult to reconcile the warm , charming and amusing hostess who spared the time to entertain us that day with the latter-day basso profundo screecher of the House of Commons and the earnest , ingratiating gusher of numerous television interviews ( performances which make me dream wistfully of the old saw , ‘ In the ideal society politics should be as unobtrusive as drains ’ ) . |
| 32 | And er , but I felt and I feel looking back on that particular er decade between nineteen sixty and nineteen seventy , that the work which the shop steward 's movement did er even in a preliminary way , prior to the Donovan Report coming out , was based on reason and fair play . |
| 33 | Looking back on that then , you must have lost a great number of colleagues and workmates that it must give you sort of mixed feelings looking back on it ? |
| 34 | Looking back on that moment now , she felt it tremble before her , round and perfect as an overfull drip , and she caught her breath at the thought of its transitoriness , its shimmering beauty , and suddenly whispered to herself , ‘ I am happy , ’ as if she feared it might not last forever . |
| 35 | Looking back on that moment , it had often occurred to Shiona that it had marked the path that their future relationship was to take . |
| 36 | No one looking back on 1981 would claim that there was consensus on the correct economic policy either in the Conservative Party or outside . |
| 37 | Looking back on all this , is one to judge him as having been a success or a failure ? |
| 38 | Now Gloucester rugby fans wo n't be looking back on this season for any misty eyed memories … |
| 39 | Looking back on these years , he remembered lying in the sun , his face covered with a straw hat : ‘ Other boys were always talking of when they would be men ; he did not want at all to be a man , or to possess things , but to remain as he was , in the same spot , and to know no more people than he already knew . ’ |
| 40 | Looking back on these campaigns at the end of her life , she defined the law as the chief agency for enacting God 's work and for abolishing the double-standard , which menaced the young and ultimately contributed to the disintegration of the state . |
| 41 | Looking back on those years between the two wars , and knowing Sam as I did , I am convinced that , had my parents landed in America , as intended , then he would have been in the prohibition racket , without any doubts . |
| 42 | First of all , looking back on those harrowing times of the sixth of July , what do you remember about the incident Erlend ? |
| 43 | Chrysler has already suspended production at one of its main assembly plants and cut back on managerial staff . |
| 44 | Each is tempted to act as a free rider : if other countries cut back on atmospheric pollution , everyone will enjoy the benefit . |
| 45 | Donations to party coffers are drying up as bankruptcies rise and businesses cut back on unnecessary expense , depriving the Tories of their traditional support . |
| 46 | At the same time , we cut back on proposed capital expenditure and made plans to repay borrowings . |
| 47 | Three-quarter-inch cassette formats : U-matic Low-Band — widely used in industry and in institutions ; U-matic High-Band — acceptable for broadcast , better quality than low-band , needs to be transferred to low-band to play back on that standard but will playback on low band equipment as black and white picture of variable quality . |
| 48 | Listen to the Ink Spots , watch Paris , Texas for the eighth or ninth time , shut the doors and lie back on those same damp pillows . |
| 49 | We are not going back on that , ’ a source said . |
| 50 | Huge unemployment resulted and East Europeans began to wonder if they had not been better off in economic isolation — though there was no going back on political reform . |
| 51 | In the meantime , Tarmac says work on the site will continue and they have no intention of going back on any of their committments to the development . |
| 52 | Had Innocent III wished — and the evidence is to the contrary — there would have been no going back on previous policy . |
| 53 | Dieters keep trying , going back on some diet or other , because they do not want to give up on themselves . |
| 54 | THE actress mother of ‘ Home Alone ’ girl Gemma Gibson was arrested as soon as she arrived back on British soil last night from Spain . |
| 55 | THE ACTRESS mother of the ‘ home alone ’ girl , Gemma Gibson , was arrested as soon as she arrived back on British soil last night . |
| 56 | Fraser 's party arrived back on 23 December , but there was only time for a brief celebration , as Stirling , Mayne and Lewes were off the following morning for another series of raids . |
| 57 | Up to speeds of 70 mph ( 100 mph on N-registered ones ! ) the canopy can be slid back on hot sunny days ; earlier ‘ Coupes with the slide-down windows can also fly in ‘ convertible ’ mode . |
| 58 | Meanwhile , his master , all eighteen or so stone of him would loll back on one of the side seats , making no effort to drive . |
| 59 | This was be this was er er there was a ceremonial parade when we stood down but this was er erm something that like that the town in recognition of the Home Guard Cos when the Home Guard was stood down it was a national er a national standing down so everybody all over the country er everybody in the country there 'd be a er a parade of some sort but this was for the Walsall detachment of the South Staffs Home Guard that was invited to , to the town hall for er a reception , it was quite it stood in re er I still can remember about it quite quite something to look back on that was really . |
| 60 | In his autobiography , Citrine himself was to look back on this second career , taken up at the age of sixty , as the happiest time of his life , when his creativity and other faculties were exercised to the full . |