Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] back the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But now they have to wait weeks or even months to claim back the money — forced to produce an exam certificate for each trainee before the TEC pays up . |
| 2 | There is all the difference between keeping slim , well-groomed and well-dressed in order to look good at forty-five or fifty , and putting the same amount of effort into an attempt to put back the clock and have another crack at being twenty-five . |
| 3 | EDUCATION Secretary John Patten 's relentless attempt to turn back the school clocks continues this week with the release of the proposed new children 's reading list . |
| 4 | The annual demands to bring back the rope , the murmurings about repatriating immigrants , the calls to purge the nation of social welfare scroungers , were for them a sojourn in purgatory . |
| 5 | The manmade homes to bring back the otter … |
| 6 | At the same time , he was totally loyal to Franco and unlikely to seek Allied aid to bring back the monarchy . |
| 7 | They 'll continue their campaign to win back the security they 'd worked a whole lifetime for . |
| 8 | Mr Crosbie said yesterday there are also signs that the school roll is to rise , after a campaign to win back the confidence of local parents . |
| 9 | The Group 's entitlement to turnover proceeds from Indonesian LNG sales is included in turnover after adjustment to add back the Group 's share of transportation and liquefaction costs and debt service which is deducted on an incurred basis on loans raised by the owner to finance the construction and expansion costs of the Bontang LNG plant which is operated on a break even basis . |
| 10 | In 1991 it passed a packaging ordinance that imposes an obligation on companies to take back the packaging in which goods are transported and sold . |
| 11 | Their agility gives them the edge , not so much in dispossessing an attacker but in evading attempts to win back the ball and in creating time and space for passing and regenerating their own offence . |
| 12 | Coming down from the Col de la Pierre-Saint-Martin there is no need to drive back the way you came , through Arette , because five miles from the top you can fork off to the right and come down in sylvan splendour through the very heart of the Forêt d'lssaux , before either turning sharp left down the valley of the Lourdios and a not very good road to Issor , or carrying straight on to follow one of two better , more or less interchangeable roads back into the valley of the Aspe near Bedous . |
| 13 | What this appeal is concerned with , however , is only the landlord 's obligation to repay once the lease has expired without breach of covenant , there being neither any obligation on the original landlord to pay over the amount of the deposit to an assignee of the reversion nor any obligation on the original tenant to assign to an assignee of the term his contractual right to receive back the amount of the deposit when and if the condition for its repayment is fulfilled … |
| 14 | I can almost hear Riva chewing on the inside of her own cheek to keep back the laughter . |
| 15 | Whether your hair has been chemically treated or not , you should take extra rich products to put back the moisture removed by the sun , sea and chlorine . |
| 16 | I could only lie there staring , burning more pages to hold back the dark , because every time I closed my eyes I saw the same thing : the dark shadow of a manlike creature with shoulders curving up in two great arcs on either side of its head … |
| 17 | ‘ Do you expect God to hold back the tide for us to float here all day , then , or do we turn in to Duart ? ’ |
| 18 | For example , if a decision is made to build a factory , it might be years before the building is erected , equipped and in operation , and years more before it earns sufficient profits to pay back the investment . |
| 19 | The council had no legal obligation to buy back the property and previous repurchases were virtually unheard of . |
| 20 | But it did n't take long for Mansell to steal back the lead and remained in control until an early pitstop . |
| 21 | Attempts to roll back the state in industry ( as well as welfare ) seemed a hopeless task . |
| 22 | Evidence emerged in July of an illicit operation by a Polish government agency to buy back the country 's foreign debt at a discount , as Poland discussed resheduling its debt repayments to Western banks . |
| 23 | At the end of your editorial ( ‘ Starting again ’ , 17 April ) you make the point that the Labour Party has not yet had the opportunity to discuss why it lost the recent election and this is a good reason to put back the choice of a new leader . |
| 24 | Mr Vit Vlnas , head of the National Gallery 's archives , says : ‘ The National Gallery has no reason to give back the altar , whose holding is based on a legal agreement . |
| 25 | The girl raised her hands to put back the veil from her face . |
| 26 | Watson and Stadler have risen from a moribund state recently but it becomes Fred Couples 's lot to hold back the invasion . |
| 27 | Clarissa 's long blonde hair is her strongest feature — she maintains it with Clairol 's Loving Care to hold back the grey . |
| 28 | The fierce row over threatened savage spending cuts intensified after Mr Major refused to rule anything out in the effort to claw back the Government 's £50 billion deficit . |
| 29 | Probably the only useful thing that the program offers is the ability to carry back the date , time or combination of the two into your foreground application . |
| 30 | All the fathers of the early church saw the Devil as holding rights over this world , but some of them believed that God had to pay him his dues in order to win back the world . |