Example sentences of "[noun sg] back [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm an academic , but I take the view that it 's probably better to let the peak birthrate come into universities and higher education in nineteen eighty two and nineteen eighty three , rather than to cut back on universities . |
| 2 | Despite a cut back on subsidies , existing land ownership laws still encourage clearance for ranches . |
| 3 | ‘ Caller Display puts control of the telephone back into customers ’ hands , restoring the balance of power between the caller and the called person . ’ |
| 4 | She turned to look towards the shore , relieved when she saw the Sea-Fret making good headway back to Brides Haven , then a flock of screaming gulls startled her into resuming her climb , and soon she was on the Neck and starting the last , steep push towards the plateau . |
| 5 | Power applied for a go-around , acceleration was again brisk , and with permission from the tower ( it was , after all , a quiet weekday ) I flew a tight circuit back on ti finals for a short-field landing . |
| 6 | It is often said that it is not very easy to turn an omelette back into eggs . |
| 7 | An £8m deal to acquire two soft drinks brands put the fizz back into shares of Merrydown Wine , battered after its poor results this year . |
| 8 | Some of the non-Slav peoples within the present Yugoslav borders can trace their ancestry back to settlers who entered their present homelands in the centuries before the area was divided between the Ottoman and Habsburg empires , but many more owed their settlement to colonisation sponsored or tolerated by the imperial rulers . |
| 9 | The judge refused to refer the case back to magistrates . |
| 10 | However , you must give a continuous thread back to schooldays , otherwise an unexplained gap may provoke awkward questions and negative thinking in the person reading the career history . |
| 11 | He grinned and brushed her hair back with fingers which lingered on her brow . |
| 12 | I think our strategy should be that we pare our prices down , to the absolute minimum that we think we can do the work for , take a little bit more off that and hope to get some money back on variations . |
| 13 | So again they would n't really be entitled to money back in cases like that . |
| 14 | Another anomaly is that people both pay taxes and get their money back in benefits . |
| 15 | Meanwhile judging from the way today 's auction went , the breweries and banks could have a long wait before they get their money back from pubs that close . |
| 16 | Ballymoney got the game back on levels terms just two minutes into the second half when an accurate throughball from Michael Neill allowed Willie McNeill to race clear and neatly tuck the ball into the bottom corner of the Cookstown net . |
| 17 | Ruddock 's transfer request was slapped in last Friday and Sugar is ready to sell him even though the £2 million-rated player was a huge success in his first season back at Spurs . |
| 18 | Erm well I mean I think there 's some very fundamental issues in all this in , in the communication spectrum first of all using the phrase back to basics , what do people mean by that and that 's where the , they , they have gone wrong because the problem is that here we are , four people round this table and I 'm sure if all of us were asked what do we mean by getting back to basics , we 'll come out with a totally different you know set of things that meanings . |
| 19 | in relation to the Conservative party 's current policy back to basics and all that I think is the appropriate expression to bear in mind . |
| 20 | Waugh 's domination of the SA bowlers also played an important role in lifting his State back into calculations for the Sheffield Shield final . |
| 21 | A wise man back in Proverbs , he reminds us and he puts this solemn warning , and he reminds there and he says i in Proverbs , chapter twenty nine and verse twenty five , the fear of man brings a snare . |
| 22 | The wise man back in Proverbs in chapter twenty eight and verse thirteen he says , he who conceals his transgression will not prosper but he who confesses and forsakes them will find compassion . |
| 23 | It also gave life back to rivers that had n't held water for many years like the River Pang on the Berkshire Downs . |
| 24 | It 's our turn now to give life back to whales and dolphins . |
| 25 | Pages can be typeset onscreen and different versions tried out without the need for referral back to typesetters . |
| 26 | I think no , I just think that I think that the British people , forget there 's people around the table , that the British people are actually pretty sort of liberal and tolerate overall and er I think the problem back to basics was government slogan and they got John Major |
| 27 | Outside , the pavilion was packed and placed in its wagon , and the file reassembled , creased and pallid in daylight , to make its way back to beds , warmth and comfort . |
| 28 | Gareth told him about finding one 's way back to places by blazing the trail . |
| 29 | This is a scoop , and he fights his way back through wildernesses , road-blocks , threats of ambush , to inform Warsaw . |
| 30 | I 'm not going to go all the way back through grades two and three . |