Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A second application of this technique only leads back to the original solution , apart from an arbitrary complex constant . |
| 2 | A potentially confusing indefinite referring expression , a man armed with a bayonet , apparently relates back to the period before he was identified as ‘ a dissident Spanish priest ’ . |
| 3 | When an echo from a distant object finally arrives back at the bat , it will be an " older " echo than an echo that is simultaneously arriving back from a near object . |
| 4 | The eventual sacking of Charman largely stems back to the rows with Allison during the recording of the album . |
| 5 | He shrewdly steps back from the action , turning his narrative into a clever mosaic of stories from the edgy extremes of urban life . |
| 6 | ‘ She always goes back to the attraction , but if I keep saying ‘ no ’ she will eventually learn not to do it . ’ |
| 7 | He 'd make $500,000 for every dollar the stock rises or $46m if the stock ever gets back to the $145 range . |
| 8 | If the poem goes back to the origins of religion , it also goes back to the origins of society and language . |
| 9 | But it also harks back to the leadership campaign , when this noted intellectual was reported as saying some unkind things about the cerebral quality of one candidate , a Mr John Major , who heard the reports . |
| 10 | The story also repeatedly reflects back on the nature of temptation and of the Ring . |
| 11 | Tregaron are also strengthened by the return of medium pacer Barri Williams , while batsman Alun Hateley also steps back into the side . |
| 12 | It probably dates back to The Beatles when Richard Starkey became Ringo the millionaire and Pete Best kept his real name and ended up as a civil servant . |
| 13 | This old farmhouse resting in the village of Raskelf ( the name means ‘ the shelf of the roe deer ’ ) , probably dates back to the 18th century . |
| 14 | Clements Farm is of great antiquity , the building itself probably dates back to the 15th century , and happily has been boarded up to prevent more deterioration . |
| 15 | The practice of abortion probably dates back to the earliest human societies . |
| 16 | Do you think this er really goes back to the fundamental issue which the Good Committee did n't really address which was the issue of ownership of the pension funds and assets and that whilst pensioners and to an extent employers these days regard the pension fund as deferred pay and pensions payments as deferred pay , the ownership of those funds is still left erm neither still er an argument about wh wh who owns the funds and er a lot of this follows on from that . |
| 17 | This now goes back to the ordinary grants money . |
| 18 | The boat now heads back to the north shore to call at Gersau , the third of the lakeside resorts sheltered by the Rigi massif . |
| 19 | For many , the scramble for enough cash to afford the free market prices inevitably leads back to the state shops , and specifically to beer . |
| 20 | The process of rehearsal draws upon a training which often reaches back into the singer 's boyhood , which provides him with the directed quickness of mind and the vocal stamina he requires , and which ensures that the choral results are generally quite passable and are sometimes excellent despite the constant absences , deputizations , hirings and firings that always threaten the homogeneity of what can be achieved . |
| 21 | STEVE REDMOND today goes back to the club that broke his heart aiming to prove Manchester City were wrong to let him go . |
| 22 | Evidence of human occupation here goes back to the Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic periods ( Early and Middle Stone Ages ) but its period of greatest activity was in the Late Iron Age , from roughly 100 BC to 50 AD , when it became a trading centre and port for people and goods from the Continent . |
| 23 | ‘ If it simply goes back to the parliament 's corridors , lots of hard work will be wasted . ’ |
| 24 | Yet despite a modulatory and harmonic palette occasionally redolent of mid-Classicism , his employment of formal procedures unmistakably harks back to the bygone era ( much the same could be said of Mozart 's church music ) . |
| 25 | In most cases , the stem simply withers back to the first node , and remains as an unsightly brown spur . |
| 26 | The church here dates back to the Domesday Book . |
| 27 | All of whom have been second-guessed by Ollie , who romps his plodmobile ( definitely not a Lagonda ! ) gaily down the Bayswater Road , barrels up Piccadilly , even throttles back on the vacant Euston Road to give the competition a sporting chance . |
| 28 | From here the path follows the river bank downstream and then heads back into the forest and away from the river before crossing a burn . |
| 29 | 3 The leading arm then withdraws back to the body in preparation for the next move . |
| 30 | This first capacitor charges to the peaks of the rectified sinewave potential during forward intervals but discharges somewhat through the load during reverse intervals as the rectified e.m.f. first falls from its peak value and then rises back to the potential difference retained on the capacitor . |