Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [verb] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ned went out by a parallel track , the Caples , so as to get back to Queenstown for New Year festivities . |
| 2 | Consequently increased emphasis needs to be placed upon the role of assessment , rehabilitation and transfer rather than discharge back into the community . |
| 3 | Rather than walk back on your own . |
| 4 | Rather than moving back to a more conventional approach based on genuine consultation , it had opted for a system giving it greater control . |
| 5 | Perhaps it is better , rather than roaming back into the recesses of geological time to consider the sudden and simultaneous extinctions that happened in Our geological yesterday . |
| 6 | Whenever that happens , rather than going back to the track I play something else that will fit , or I leave it as an improvisational section , so to speak . |
| 7 | You should have seen Captain Trentham 's face when ‘ e found out that I had chosen a spell in the Fusiliers rather than going back to gaol . ’ |
| 8 | Not only this , but because owls are naturally nocturnal , if I released Dawn during the day , she was quite likely to seek out a suitable roosting place rather than come back to me for food , if the fancy took her . |
| 9 | Yeah erm , the reason I want to follow it up is because would you not agree er with a number of major companies in this country and in a time of recession rather than cutting back on your marketing and advertising you should in fact be increasing it in fact when the marketing |
| 10 | Rather than fall back on an increased emphasis upon managerialism based upon hierarchy and control , the Education Reform Acts should be regarded as an opportunity to review , not just in a coping way but in a maximising way , the management structures and processes of our schools . |
| 11 | Senior ministers and officials are urgently considering cutting back on the number of nuclear warheads carried by Britain 's powerful submarines . |
| 12 | For a gentle corrective one could do worse than go back to H.L. Mencken who opined that Alexander Graham Bell — the progenitor of the institution in which Penzias holds sway — and Thomas Alva Edison had done more than any of their contemporaries to add to the sum of life 's damned nuisances . |
| 13 | Both could do worse than go back to Tony Crosland and update his ideas to allow for the issues of gender , race , environment , low growth and others of which he was ignorant . |
| 14 | Their senior branch of railway promoters and philanthropists produced the first Quaker MP Joseph Pease as well as marrying back into the Gurneys . |
| 15 | Its purpose is best served if the person concerned can take up this attitude , be with it for as long as is required , and then let it go again when stepping back into ordinary life , then there is no risk of becoming over-identified with it . |
| 16 | The deployment of a relatively big budget and the use of a really big screen ( Cinerama in major cities , Super Panavision 70 where projection facilities were available ) , together with a show of ‘ serious ’ ideas comparable to printed sci-fi , raised the status of the whole genre , and it has never since sunk back to the level of , say , stalk-and-slash movies in critical regard . |