Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] back [prep] first " in BNC.
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1 | If the essential qualities needed for reinventing health care under Mr Clinton are three — willingness to go back to first principles , faith in political action , and above all , a superhuman command of detail — then Mr Magaziner has spent his whole life in training for his current job . |
2 | Newmark ( 1966 ) claims that this causes the learners to fall back on first language rules , i.e. they use the syntax of the first to speak the second . |
3 | In fact , the fog obliged the convoy to turn back at first , but it set out again later in the day and reached the Spanish mainland with little difficulty . |
4 | INTEL P5 MICROPROCESSOR PUT BACK TO FIRST QUARTER 1993 |
5 | The researchers went back to first principles by making a detailed mechanical analysis of Diatryma 's head . |