Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] [verb] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said that the official in charge of antiquities at the Nasiriya Museum had received from the Americans a ‘ very small number ’ of terracotta objects dating back to the dawn of mankind and the Babylonian period , some of which had only recently been broken . |
| 2 | I thus set about preparing for the days ahead as , I imagine , a general might prepare for a battle : I devised with utmost care a special staff plan anticipating all sorts of eventualities ; I analysed where our weakest points lay and set about making contingency plans to fall back upon in the event of these points giving way ; I even gave the staff a military-style ‘ pep-talk ’ , impressing upon them that , for all their having to work at an exhausting rate , they could feel great pride in discharging their duties over the days that lay ahead . |
| 3 | Armed vigilante groups fight back against the gangs , adding to a vicious circle of violence . |
| 4 | Perhaps the DNA of the mule germ-cells mutates back to the parental forms or , more speculatively , as Taylor and Short suggest , borrows chromatin ( chromosomal material ) from a neighbouring cell . |
| 5 | Much of its stealth comes from a design that minimises the chance of radar waves bouncing back the way they came . |
| 6 | The radar waves bounce back off the cars that approach , and are registered by the receiving apparatus . |
| 7 | Waistcoat and shirt rags pulled back from her shoulders along with the shift beneath , which had split like tissue paper . |
| 8 | Prizes were presented by Royal Bank Vice Chairman Charles Winter whose association with the Dundee and Edinburgh Football Clubs goes back many years . |
| 9 | Young Outdoor Action readers heading back to school will at least have something to look forward to — outdoor activity lessons . |
| 10 | And in the library there is a more recent collection of men 's pin-up books dating back to the Fifties . |
| 11 | If the clusters grow too big before they collapse , they will be unable to shake off enough smaller carbon fragments to get back down to 60 atoms . |
| 12 | The German Environment Minister , Klaus Töpfer , has presented draft regulations which will make it compulsory for car manufacturers to take back their old cars for recycling or disposal . |
| 13 | They had no subsistence plots to fall back on , some tried reviving traditional handicrafts but these could not compete with the manufactured goods that had been made available by the market system . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | No , there would not be any fishing boats going back out . |
| 16 | Some harbour resentments going back many years , which only come to the surface when a crisis causes the couple to come for counselling . |
| 17 | Research studies demonstrated back in the 1970s the fact that exhaust emissions contained dangerous toxins , in particular lead . |
| 18 | Equity providers will back management teams because of the strength of character and entrepreneurial skills of their members , who , as a general rule , will : ( a ) have a high degree of commitment to the new business ; ( b ) have strong entrepreneurial instincts ; ( c ) have confidence in their ability to take control of the business and run it without the assistance of inter-group services ; ( d ) be able to take personal risks without adverse effect on their decision making ; ( e ) have the strength of character to cope with the frustrations and successes of the negotiation process ; ( f ) be few in number and therefore able to make decisions quickly ; ( g ) have strong family support . |
| 19 | With my cheek resting on the worn linoleum things came back into focus almost at once . |
| 20 | Now , as the echo wavefronts stream back from the tree towards the approaching bat , the bat is still moving fast towards them . |
| 21 | This is reflected in half-time profits pegged back to £37.1m , a rise of only £3.7m over the last six months . |
| 22 | As a result , Germany is now considering legislation to compel car makers to take back and recycle vehicles at the ends of their lives , and its car makers are busily designing cars that can rapidly be dismantled . |
| 23 | The German government recently drafted regulations making it compulsory for car makers to take back their old cars when they are due to be scrapped . |
| 24 | Layers of management have been stripped out and restrictive labour practices dating back to the Red Clyde era have disappeared . |
| 25 | Appeal courts emphasise that the discretion is vested in the court of first instance and are reluctant to interfere ; first instance judges fall back on issues such as that of the burden of proof . |
| 26 | The housing charity , Shelter , now wants the Government to let local authorities spend the money raised from selling council houses to buy back repossessed ones . |
| 27 | But because , as one inveterate rebel , whose battle honours go back far into Mrs Thatcher 's reign , delightedly claimed after the election , there is a new mood abroad . |
| 28 | The Army was more ambivalent : while welcoming the end of National Service and the return to ‘ real soldiering ’ with a regular army , the Army Council looked askance at the loss of 51 regiments , 17 of which were infantry battalions with battle honours stretching back over the centuries . |
| 29 | Experiments in Paris involving transmission by telephone lines date back to 1881 , but it needed the technology of the 1930s to record two channels with adequate fidelity , synchronization and separation . |
| 30 | It was in the summer of 1932 that Duke paddled out alone into the biggest swell he had seen in his life , with a stiff offshore from the Koolau mountains pinning back the peaks , which he estimated at thirty feet , as big as the storm waves off Kaena Point . |