Example sentences of "[adv] back [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Guentchev is very much back in international reckoning after his goalscoring exploits in the FA Premier League with Ipswich Town .
2 Once you feel like running and can do so without stiffness or pain , you can work gently back towards normal training , along the lines of the schedule .
3 We felt we were halfway back to civilian life , being off the camp and in the middle of an interesting town .
4 What you are aiming for is something like Fig. 9.3 where the pitch is reduced to around zero when the model is on its side , goes down to negative when inverted , back to zero when the helicopter is on its other side and finally back to normal .
5 Trailing to a Cliff Thompson goal at half time Herrington were soon back on level terms when Tom Welsh scored only to again go behind to a David Ross effort .
6 But the eight-times champion was soon back in front thanks to an accomplished effort on Grand Hawk in the St Austell Brewery Company Novices Hurdle .
7 Anyway back to main point , so up to retirement quite straightforward , no problem at all and this is why he could have gone on for donkey years without a return of income , his salary goes up of course , it 's picked up in the tax tables , his personal allowances do n't change so they could swan along there for so many years without even looking at his affairs , but then see what happens in the very next tax year , when he has n't had a return and may not get a return for a couple of years .
8 The rear seat is also mounted further back on different mountings .
9 Sometimes earlier in the season cutting further back onto old wood will ensure better success eg with Senecio greyi and Cineraria maritima .
10 Eliot traces the line further back into primitive prehistory by an explicatory aligning of his protagonist and a putative ancestor , the Cyclops , who devoured Odysseus 's comrades .
11 A bit further back to Uni days .
12 The use of finger shapes to convey meaning can be seen even further back in Christian art where ‘ secret ’ signs were available for God , the Trinity , and so on .
13 Indeed , they date way back to colonial times .
14 And he adds : ‘ Once back to good food and the right medicine , most human bodies recover very quickly .
15 On the historical tip , disco has an unsevered umbilical cord which still , even in the current phase of Caucasian robot tribalism , connects straight back to African-American Holiness churches within which preaching was delivered in searing , heavenly voices and the flock lifted up their own voices , spoke in strange tongues , rolled in holy fervour and fell backwards when smitten by the presence of the Lord .
16 Jimmy Cook was also back in familiar territory , quietly amiable as ever , pulling on the moustache and whispering that he would n't mind another year or two with Somerset after all .
17 The explosive pain of it brought me hellishly back to full savage consciousness and to a revived desire not to become part of the eternal mystery just yet .
18 But with good medical treatment they will often get nearly back to normal health .
19 For the domestic scenes — and these include the most moving Slaughter of the Macduffs sequence I have seen — we come right back to European naturalism .
20 At least talking about that will make us appreciate just what we ve got now … and what Wilko and ALL the players have done … right back to old Mickey Thomas .
21 Since I started to work on this chapter somewhere back in early 1989 a lot has happened .
22 Towing the net , he swam slowly back to Golden Girl .
23 You can either react equally aggressively and verbally back in Spanish , or French , which in fact is what is happening , but that is not helpful , or as one member of staff said to me today , ‘ I came very close to clobbering him today ’ .
24 However , he is now back in top form and has just won a gold medal at the International Open championships in Paris .
25 YESTERDAY was Rogation Sunday , the rituals of which are very old and its roots go far back into pre-Christian times .
26 What must be noted here is that much of the strength of the political ethos propagated in prewar years rested on its incorporation and distortion of concepts and assumptions whose origins were far back in Japanese history , and which were broadly unquestioned by the majority of the population ; and that it was firmly integrated with the social system and standard code of morality and behaviour .
27 Of all these expanding emotions , the one which we call compassion , may have been the first to emerge and could be the one of greatest importance , but the origins of all of them could almost certainly be found far back in evolutionary time .
28 Once a nation or race is embarked on a course of action , particularly violent action , such as the waging of war or its undeclared equivalent , that action having its source far back in national religious history , it becomes extremely difficult for any retraction to take place .
29 The whole village was involved and there was a carefully laid down ritual which had long roots far back in medieval times .
30 In his second novel , The Inheritors , Golding has stood so far back from modern historical progress as to imagine the supersession of innocent , hairy Neanderthalers by ‘ bone-face men ’ in a prehistoric age : they wear clothes or , as the primitive eye sees it , they step outside their skins .
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