Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [verb] back [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They often represent the last vestiges of the ancient practice of hacking back the vegetation along well-used tracks . |
| 2 | the tax effect of adding back the exceptional German stock provision ; and |
| 3 | Despite much talk of cutting back the state , the central government 's annual output of new rules and changes to the old ones has risen by 8% since 1985 . |
| 4 | It was only when I was almost in despair that I recalled having seen a letter written by a knitter from overseas , about an easy way to make cables and it seemed a pleasant way to take a break by referring back a few months until I found the letter from — you 've guessed it — June Shaw . |
| 5 | Before the Minister starts to make criticisms of the cost to the taxpayer of buying back the grid company , may I remind him what happened when his right hon. Friend sold it ? |
| 6 | So concentrate and then sort of pull back a bit from it and check the main bits and a good way is going through the sounds of each syllable . |
| 7 | That surprised him , and he paused a moment before putting back the sheet . |
| 8 | We round off our German theme of this year 's Festival in welcoming back the mezzo-soprano Aylish Kerrigan with her accompanist Andreas Kerstein . |
| 9 | Schemes vary , but usually you keep on your mortgage by holding back a nominal amount , say £1 . |
| 10 | There is now considerable scope for pushing back the onset of morbidity in old age into fewer and fewer years with properly targeted health promotion and illness prevention policies and the widespread adoption of healthier lifestyles . |
| 11 | Lawyers acting for Ferranti concede that there is no chance of getting back the full £215m which the company is being forced to write off as a result of the International Signal and Control fraud . |
| 12 | Estimates of the development cost vary greatly , but the high cost is certainly a principal factor in holding back the market . |
| 13 | And he angrily denounced the Labour Party amendment demanding a delay in bringing back the Bill as a ‘ fraud ’ . |
| 14 | Idiosyncratic gestures , such as an individual 's habit of tossing back a strand of hair , are more likely to be signals of personal character or state of mind which are transmitted unintentionally and unconsciously . |
| 15 | The Conservatives ' strategy of holding back the state pension on the ground that the deficit could be made good by additional private sector pensions has been blown out of the water , not least by the vulnerability of occupational pensions which we have witnessed recently and by the under-performance and the milking of private pension schemes themselves . |
| 16 | Often these have the flavour of turning back the clock but they are nearly always sensible . |
| 17 | Air the bed by flinging back the covers for around half an hour every morning |
| 18 | She smiled , her jaw aching from the effort of holding back the tears . |
| 19 | Second , that the war has the justification of driving back an aggressor state which refused all opportunities to retreat . |
| 20 | Putting science next to godliness goes hand in hand with rolling back the Copernican revolution and putting Man back at the centre of the universe , a reactionary project that makes the New Right look like tinkerers . |
| 21 | Now Philips wants the EEC to take a hand in holding back the tide of Japanese machines , some of which , it says , are being ‘ dumped ’ in Europe at below cost-price . |
| 22 | Consigned to the obituary column more times than he 's popped a pill or praised the Lord , Johnny Cash continues to confound critics and medical science by bouncing back every year with a new triumph . |
| 23 | ‘ There was quite an uproar and the sailors had to help the English for to keep back the Irish , they being the greatest majority . |
| 24 | They had tried a few in the Fahan Lodge Hotel after sailing back the night before , been seen off by two ugly English girls ( Morally ugly , said Rory — they would n't screw ) and had roared into Buncrana in the BMW and done the High Street bars . |
| 25 | I should think it is working the way of bringing back the workhouse through having too much economy . ’ |
| 26 | Says Dent : ‘ The plastics industry has a tradition of pushing back the frontiers of technology . |
| 27 | Everybody had thought that this would be the best idea since bringing back the death penalty . |
| 28 | We had already disconnected the water supply , so the first thing was to empty the cistern by flushing , and then remove the flush pipe from the flush pipe horn by folding back the rubber gasket and unscrewing the joint at the cistern . |
| 29 | The view we took was , in a nutshell , that the volatile nature of the South African political arena outweighed not only its magnificent facilities , but also the anti-apartheid emotional legacy of welcoming back the Springboks . |
| 30 | 8.3.2 the date ( if any ) upon which the Premises are relet This provision is frequently included in guarantors ' covenants , probably to cover the position where the landlord has no objection to taking back the premises with a view to a future letting , but in the meantime to secure some form of rental income . |