Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] back [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's worth stepping back a little and considering your own personality before drawing up a birth plan or vowing that you will never have an epidural whatever the circumstances . |
| 2 | In the other semi-final , Marine , of the HFS Loans League , will be confident of reaching Wembley after pulling back a 2–0 deficit at Witton Albion . |
| 3 | They had tried a few in the Fahan Lodge Hotel after sailing back the night before , been seen off by two ugly English girls ( Morally ugly , said Rory — they would n't screw ) and had roared into Buncrana in the BMW and done the High Street bars . |
| 4 | There is now considerable scope for pushing back the onset of morbidity in old age into fewer and fewer years with properly targeted health promotion and illness prevention policies and the widespread adoption of healthier lifestyles . |
| 5 | I should think it is working the way of bringing back the workhouse through having too much economy . ’ |
| 6 | Second , that the war has the justification of driving back an aggressor state which refused all opportunities to retreat . |
| 7 | Idiosyncratic gestures , such as an individual 's habit of tossing back a strand of hair , are more likely to be signals of personal character or state of mind which are transmitted unintentionally and unconsciously . |
| 8 | Of pushing back every natural instinct . |
| 9 | Says Dent : ‘ The plastics industry has a tradition of pushing back the frontiers of technology . |
| 10 | Powerful groups have ways and means of clawing back the spoils of tactical defeats . |
| 11 | Because if you 're thinking of nipping back a century or two and uncreating this interesting aberration of yours , I think I 'd rather be somewhere else at the moment of uncreation , if it 's all the same to you . ’ |
| 12 | Often these have the flavour of turning back the clock but they are nearly always sensible . |
| 13 | the tax effect of adding back the exceptional German stock provision ; and |
| 14 | Lawyers acting for Ferranti concede that there is no chance of getting back the full £215m which the company is being forced to write off as a result of the International Signal and Control fraud . |
| 15 | Before the Minister starts to make criticisms of the cost to the taxpayer of buying back the grid company , may I remind him what happened when his right hon. Friend sold it ? |
| 16 | The Conservatives ' strategy of holding back the state pension on the ground that the deficit could be made good by additional private sector pensions has been blown out of the water , not least by the vulnerability of occupational pensions which we have witnessed recently and by the under-performance and the milking of private pension schemes themselves . |
| 17 | She smiled , her jaw aching from the effort of holding back the tears . |
| 18 | Having proved myself incapable of holding back an irresistible force , I now know exactly how Canute felt . |
| 19 | Despite much talk of cutting back the state , the central government 's annual output of new rules and changes to the old ones has risen by 8% since 1985 . |
| 20 | As concern over state expenditure mounted , governments have looked for ways of cutting back the volume of support for the railways . |
| 21 | Despite cutting back the undergrowth to keep routes open , footpads and other outlaws haunted most lonely stretches of road . |
| 22 | They often represent the last vestiges of the ancient practice of hacking back the vegetation along well-used tracks . |
| 23 | But whatever the motives , the Government 's twin aims of handing back the control of unions to the individual members , and ensuring that trade unions act within bounds set by a democratic state , are ones that should have been promoted by the left . |
| 24 | Bernard Unti , vice president of the American Anti-Vivisection Society , is pessimistic about the chances of rolling back the patent decision , but believes some progress has been made . |
| 25 | The Inspector who reported on that Litchfield city local plan said , go away , leave your Litchfield city plan and look at the options beyond the greenbelt , including erm the possibility of a new village , and I think that 's that 's the point here , instead of rolling back the greenbelt you should be looking beyond , you know , what is the general extent of the greenbelt to see what options are available , just coming on then to the size point , again that Mr Grantham raised , I have through erm experience both in the Cambridge situation which I referred to extensively erm in my statement , and in East Staffordshire where we are promoting a plan , er a site for a new village which is included in the deposited plan , we 've looked in both the Cambridge and the er East Staffordshire situation , bo at service provision , both from speaking to the providers of those services and whether or not they need a specific facility in the settlement , and from the developers point of view , that if you 've got a pot of money what can you afford to erm provide within a settlement of that size , and the conclusions we are rai er sort of reaching are a du a settlement of the order of twelve fifty dwellings can support your primary school , community centre , erm a range of shops , and so on and so forth , so what I 'm saying in my submission that the an appropriate size is in the thousand fifteen hundred mark , is that were you can get a reasonable co balance of community facilities and provide the relevant infrastructure in terms of services . |
| 26 | The Library 's teams — winners of last year 's competition — did not fare so well this time , coming in 9th and 10th out of 14 teams , but the fishermen are hopeful of winning back the trophy for the Library next year . |
| 27 | Arguments continue to rage on the Ryder Cup side , yet Gallacher 's men are quite capable of winning back the trophy . |
| 28 | But on this trip Gooch has not even had that pleasure and it is imperative now for England 's chances of winning back the Ashes from Australia this summer that their weary 39-year-old captain quickly recovers in health and spirit when he returns home on Saturday week . |
| 29 | The hardware of this music machine should be capable of playing back the composition in the sounds of the instruments for which it was written . |
| 30 | It 's for all these reasons that Madonna has been accused of setting back the women 's movement 30 years , but she 's never claimed to be speaking for the cause . |