Example sentences of "back more " in BNC.

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1 The barbed needles pick up tiny threads and pump them through the fabric , bringing back more threads from the base fabric and welding them to the appliqué .
2 Mr Havel 's Civic Forum may be some way behind East Germany 's New Forum , but it can draw upon a reservoir of informally networked dissent which dates back more than a decade .
3 Mr Havel 's Civic Forum may be some way behind East Germany 's New Forum , but it can draw upon a reservoir of informally networked dissent which dates back more than a decade .
4 If a deal goes ahead , the debtor gets more money , or owes less debt ; it can pay back more of every remaining unit of debt than before the deal .
5 Not only had they no documents going back more than a century or two , but much of what they ‘ knew ’ was merely myth and legend .
6 Although leaning the sail over the front of the board ( a gybe ) is easier , it often makes getting back more difficult since you have to sail further into wind .
7 Research on natural hazards has a long tradition in geography going back more than half a century .
8 Hove , however , came back more determined than ever in the second half .
9 A rose is like a dog : you do not and can not get back more than you put in and , in the same way that a dog is more rewarding than most other animals , you get more back from a rose than other flowers .
10 Many go back more than a decade — to about the time when massive asbestosis judgments first started to trigger claims against insurance policies written in the 1950s .
11 The Church in Russia gets back more buildings but books are now homeless
12 It requires more of a person , but it gives back more self-satisfaction .
13 Her eyes tightly closed in a vain attempt to hold back more tears , she could not see his expression , but she did hear his harsh intake of breath .
14 If the government then uses this money to repay the national debt by buying back more bonds and Treasury bills than it issues , this will release the money back into the economy again .
15 Through a series of reviews reaching back more than a decade , British scholar-critics have encouraged an approach to early-music performance that reflects the priorities of their academic training .
16 The team say their be happy to fly out again and bring back more casualties .
17 The origins of British railway unions go back more than a century ( Bagwell 1963 ; McKillop 1950 ; Murphy 1980 ) , although it was only in 1911 that the unions won recognition , with the help of government intervention , from the railway companies .
18 His bombshell directly contradicted Mr Major 's own claim that the treaty marked a turning point in curbing the powers of the Brussels Commission and handing back more powers to national governments .
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