Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [verb] back the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It comes at a time when the Reagan administration is rolling back the controls established by successive governments in the 1970s . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Their job was to hold back the Chinese , and they did . |
| 4 | A leading Loch Lomondside farmer , John Maxwell of Cashel Farm , said : ‘ It 's been a dreadful winter — one of the worst I can ever remember — with rain day after day and it just proves how wrong the Government were to cut back the HLCAs for hill use . ’ |
| 5 | And now actress Sharon Stone is pulling back the sheets on her sexploits during the filming of the raunchy movies that have made her famous . |
| 6 | If , on the other hand , we decide that the sole purpose of the scrum is to bring back the ball into the game , we may well use a free pass instead ’ . |
| 7 | Kevin and his brother were putting back the whiskeys and talking about things that meant nothing to her . |
| 8 | Our task is to bring back the mass-production element into the house-building industry , which can be done only by enabling it largely to work on its own authority for a prospective demand — by ‘ letting the dog see the rabbit ’ . |