Example sentences of "[noun] was [verb] back [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was perhaps the argument that this imposition of middle-class morality was holding back the British cinema which led to the matter becoming an issue of public concern . |
| 2 | Their job was to hold back the Chinese , and they did . |
| 3 | The research of the great ecologist David Lack ( 1954 ) showed for example that in many bird species of temperate zones , individuals were reproducing as fast as they were able and that the subsequent population was cut back every year by winter mortality . |
| 4 | At Knossos and Phaistos , an extra refinement in the masonry of the West fronts was a foundation course of very large blocks : the rest of the wall was stepped back a centimetre or two to make a feature of it . |
| 5 | However , she appeared to acknowledge that the government was scaling back a £2,000 million ( US$3,200 million ) plan to fit flue gas desulphurization ( FGD ) equipment to coal-fired power stations . |
| 6 | Wpc Jones was keeping back the crowd and he called to her , ‘ Send for the ambulance ! ’ |
| 7 | There was a gulping sound as though the model was choking back a sob . |