Example sentences of "[verb] back [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he can not accept it , can he at least dispatch a team of Scottish Office officials to see matters on the ground and report back to the Scottish Office on the grim situation faced by the islands ? |
| 2 | In summing up on this ideas section , we seem to be moving towards advocating that you : ( i ) fix on some aims or targets or intentions ( ii ) decide how these might relate to the actions and behaviour of pupils and teachers ( iii ) try to produce a teaching unit that is illustrative of these intentions and that strives towards promoting some of the desired behaviour ( iv ) report back on the actual relationship between the intentions and the behaviour . |
| 3 | The Six agreed to hold an intergovernmental committee , to be headed by the tireless Paul-Henri Spaak , which would consider , flesh out and report back on the various proposals . |
| 4 | The Bill is reported back to the whole House as amended . |
| 5 | If you split a fortnight between the Algarve and exploration , and are flying back from Faro , then you could make the Lisbon area your limit , staying in the city or in Cascais , the breezy little port along the coast , heading out to ravishing Sintra , the royal summer retreat which is 15 miles north , then driving back via the walled Moorish town of Évora . |
| 6 | Tremayne said nothing until we were driving back to the stable and then all he did was ask me if I were happy with what I 'd done . |
| 7 | Her first instinct had been to creep back to the familiar haven of her room , but now Chesarynth could n't face its bright emptiness . |
| 8 | UNCED itself , however , was launched as a result of a UN General Assembly resolution passed in December 1989 [ see p. 37433 ] , which referred back to the 1987 report of the World Commission on Environment and Development chaired by the then Norwegian Prime Minister , Gro Harlem Brundtland [ see pp. 35227-29 ] . |
| 9 | This in turn referred back to the 1987 report of the World Commission on Environment and Development , commonly known as the Brundtland Commission after its chair , the then Norwegian Prime Minister , Mrs Gro Harlem Brundtland . |
| 10 | Speaking at the 1989 BEMAS Annual Conference , Martin Davies , Director of NCC , referred back to the early gloom and outrage , but then went on to say : ‘ What is remarkable is how little dissent and how little opposition there is now the overwhelming majority have accepted the idea of a National Curriculum . ’ |
| 11 | Dick Hebdige stands back from the virtual war |
| 12 | An imposing large house stands back from the main road , known as Thorne Hall , dated 1881 . |
| 13 | Downes looked down at his wristwatch , and at last turned away , walking back along the bare platform towards the footbridge — where he was confronted by the bulk of the broad-shouldered Lewis . |
| 14 | I was just walking back past the big , black marble vault belonging to the Chatwin family when somebody dodged out from behind it and grabbed me from the back . |
| 15 | Faye understood now too , and she sank back into the reclining lounge chair with a gesture of despair . |
| 16 | TEXAN oil and gas exploration minnow Aviva Petroleum sank back into the red last year with an $8.7m loss , against 1990 's $537,000 profit , on revenue down from $12.2m to $9.3m . |
| 17 | Gina sank back on the comfortable couch . |
| 18 | She hailed it , gave the Chinese driver her address in a monotone , and sank back in the air-conditioned interior , staring at the white skyscrapers below . |
| 19 | Greg Grant looks back to the Victorian adventurers who conquered nature to put a communication girdle around the world . |
| 20 | At a time when plans for global communications seem to rest on the semantics of international standards , Greg Grant looks back to the Victorian adventurers who conquered nature to put a communication girdle around the world . |
| 21 | And it , kind of faces both ways , it , it looks back to the early period of the development of Freud 's thought that we 've already spoken about , and its beginnings back in the eighteen nineties , and in certain other respects , it looks forward , to the kind of revolution that was going to occur after World War Two . |
| 22 | This old way , ‘ With an alien people clutching their gods ’ , looks back to the savage world which Eliot had been exploring , the world trapped in the ritual of ‘ birth , and copulation , and death ’ . |
| 23 | Today , the Mirror looks back to the first tragic deaths in one of the world 's longest and more bitter conflicts . |
| 24 | They were things that you took to enhance your experience and to make it more intense — to make your personal development became part of your life , It was a very high-minded approach and when one looks at what has happened to the drug scene today and one looks back to the prevailing attitudes at the time , one can see the absolute , total abhorrence among drug takers that I knew in those days of amphetamines , heroin , barbiturates , mandrax — all those things that had an adverse physical effect which were considered to by highly dangerous to one 's personal development and to one 's daily living . |
| 25 | As the Docklands beer festival fades from view , Martyn Cornell looks back at the sad demise of brewing in the Cockney heartland |
| 26 | The master raconteur looks back at the many amusing moments of his 47-year career at the BBC . |
| 27 | Gargy Patel looks back on the first twelve months of the motorway completed after two decades of delay . |
| 28 | Peace People development co-ordinator Patrick Corrigan looks back on the mass rallies of 1976 . |
| 29 | Executive Support Manager Allan Paterson looks back over the TOP Programme as it has progressed at Hunterston and considers some of its achievements . |
| 30 | Purpose hard in her , she staggered back to the flat sheet of the blueness that was spread to catch the warmth of the sun and in her frozen hand was a knife sharpened by erosion from a rock . |