Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] back [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THIS is the most advanced operating theatre in Europe , equipped with life-saving devices that are pushing back the frontiers of medical science . |
| 2 | Increasingly , however , bankers are pushing back the limits of technology-inspired redesign . |
| 3 | Let me just show you what it says , just get it straight , right that 's the service analysis for September nineteen ninety-two , alright so we 're going back a few months . |
| 4 | Oh yes you 're going back a few years ! |
| 5 | They 're going back the other way . |
| 6 | But you , only you I am afraid , yes , only you out of everyone here , are holding back the entire production . |
| 7 | Two factors are holding back the development of GIS applications . |
| 8 | Er Welsh colts and things of that nature are coming back a bit now , they are building up now er but |
| 9 | The conflagration began in the lower half of the square at the point where the houses are set back a little from the pavement . |
| 10 | I 'm going back a step but I think it 's |
| 11 | In other words , I C I , Ingaselectric , A E I , all the big firms , all the er coal mines , all the British Rail , well British Rail in those days , and these large firms trained large numbers of apprentices and then after the five years they tipped you out , I 'm sorry I 'm going back a long while , into what they call an improver status and then you could either come back to the firm or you could go , stay where you were . |
| 12 | I 'm going back a bit there . |
| 13 | You mentioned Christopher , what er the last time it 's , I 'm going back a little while , the last time I was talking with Janet he , she was a bit unhappy , I think he was in er a teaching practice at the time and she was wondering how he was going to go on . |
| 14 | Aye , I 'm going back a lot of years ago |
| 15 | Oh I , I , I , I 'd one you know , oh I 'd one up , oh I 'm going back a few years now |
| 16 | So everything 's there , printing presses repro separation houses , sheet film , computer set up and Apple Macs and everything is there , it 's actually a very impressive set up erm , the Queen Margaret 's course , I 'm slightly dubious about I once had a colleague I 'm going back a decade who had been employed on the basis of doing the communications course at Queen Margaret I think , and it turned out that it was n't communications as we understood it , it was n't our sort of communications P R newspapers and things like that , it was communications on a much broader , broader front so it did n't actually fit in to the world of P R and what happened was I then had to sit down and train this woman from scratch and get rid of a lot of the preconceived notions that she had come in with she had brought from Queen Margaret 's College . |
| 17 | They 're very popular with the tourists , I think they feel they are taking back a whole cheese as opposed to a portion cut off a bigger cheese . |
| 18 | That lease runs out in 1997 , when the Chinese are to take back the East 's foremost capitalist city , with its six million inhabitants . |