Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [verb] back on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hewlett-Packard Co has swung back on the offensive in the US with a predatory enhanced workstation trade-in programme , which it says accepts the broadest range of workstations , personal computers and X terminals in part exchange for new Precision Architecture RISC workstations and X stations . |
| 2 | ‘ Salamanca has cut back on its staff , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Hence the study had to fall back on a proxy for measures of ill health — standardised mortality ratios ( SMRs ) or death rates from different diseases standardised by age . |
| 4 | Where a household seeks to cut back on the use of water , it will be at the risk of hygiene , fewer baths , toilets left unflushed , and less washing of clothes and dishes . |
| 5 | As other departments , such as Visual Effects , joined in the unofficial boycott of Doctor Who ( see Chapter Five ) , Verity Lambert , Mervyn Pinfield and their team had to fall back on ingenuity from their Designers and Directors , plus backing from Sydney Newman and Donald Wilson who both maintained great faith in the prospects of the show . |
| 6 | So , paradoxically , private enterprise in its most unrestricted and anarchic period tended to fall back on the only available models of large-scale management , the military and bureaucratic . |
| 7 | The train seemed to hang back on its journey through the forest , as though fearing an ambush . |
| 8 | Liberal Democrat candidate Peter Allen claimed the Government has cut back on its training budget . |
| 9 | Ignoring this , the present Government has cut back on the already poorly resourced Youth Training and Employment Training programme . |
| 10 | OR when a gate has swung back on a horse rapping its knees or trapping its foot . |
| 11 | A man fighting to get back on top … he 's a new life and a new job with a firm of auctioneers in Hereford … |
| 12 | At the review any lag which has developed should be identified and where necessary additional effort or resource applied to get back on programme . |
| 13 | The hon. Gentleman knows that it would be more than my job was worth to attempt to go back on undertakings given by my right hon. and learned Friend . |
| 14 | The problems are not all one-sided , however , as it may be that a supplier of equipment or software has to fall back on contractual remedies . |
| 15 | When was the power going to come back on ? |
| 16 | The power 's come back on . |