Example sentences of "[adv] back on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , land use planning , which in the early 1980s was alleged to be an obstacle to investment , is very much back on the agenda . |
| 2 | The idea for this workshop came out of a realisation that Modularity was very much back on the agenda in a wide variety of institutions . |
| 3 | The glass was placed gently back on the counter in front of Newman . |
| 4 | Meanwhile back on the ward , Doctor Beri 's bleep goes again … this time it 's a call to casualty … and the weary house physician has to run half a mile from one end of the building to the other … along the new corridor linking the old part of the hospital with the new.By the end of the morning , he 's covered six miles … one day recently he covered eighteen miles : |
| 5 | Cotterell bumped the chair squarely back on the floor before coming around the desk to see Carson out . |
| 6 | Lucy leaned further back on the sofa , and took a thoughtful drink of her tea . |
| 7 | He pushed the box further back on the table , then put his arm about her and gazing into her face , said , ‘ I worry about nothing , not a thing . |
| 8 | On present performance he was going to start way back on the grid unless the problem was sorted out ; but she knew it would be . |
| 9 | For a tight turn the back foot will need to be placed a long way back on the board . |
| 10 | Once back on the ground the ambulance service took over the medical side of the operation . |
| 11 | WE TUMBLE straight back on the enormo-bus after the gig and travel for five hours to New York in preparation for playing at the NY Academy two nights later . |
| 12 | The ideal is for me to stop out here on me own because , if I go into a unit or something and stop , it 's quite easy to go straight back on the gear . |
| 13 | But this time round , Mould is also back on the offensive , following his past , demoralised-sounding work . |
| 14 | Also back on the scene is veteran spinner Keith Madeley , who has changed his mind after retiring from the county set-up |
| 15 | He sighed with disappointment and lay carefully back on the straw pallet . |
| 16 | Madame drank her tea and put the fine china cup carefully back on the saucer which she was holding in her other hand . |
| 17 | Keeping the rudder still and pulling right back on the stick sharply as the stall occurs , should make the wing drop . |
| 18 | I had put Unidentified Flying Objects right back on the agenda where they belonged , and , from this day forth , the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist was never going to be the same again . |
| 19 | This might well be the word processor that puts WordStar right back on the map in the word processor stakes . |
| 20 | ‘ I started off the season feeling great and scoring goals , but now I 'm right back on the floor again . ’ |
| 21 | Only when the opposition are right back on the defence or for free kicks . |
| 22 | It was hard for the men not to lose their footing on jagged or slippery stones : harder still , leaning right back on the ropes , to counteract the relentless downward pull of the current and keep the tree on course for the opposite bank . |
| 23 | ‘ The Lorrimores ’ private car is unhitched … it 's somewhere back on the track , and the Canadian is coming . ’ |
| 24 | There was even good news from previously sickly UK insurer Eagle Star which is now back on the road to recovery . |
| 25 | The stolen lorry is now back on the road making money instead of being used to steal it . |
| 26 | The manual alerts the teacher to the kinds of ‘ errors ’ children are most likely to make and emphasises that in the ‘ correct ’ drawing ‘ the front of the road occupies the whole width of the picture , and the distant end of it vanishes away to a point far back on the horizon ’ . |
| 27 | Even back on the bridge again . ’ |
| 28 | Fig 30 With the weight well back on the board and still on the windward ( left ) edge , the board will continue to turn swiftly . |
| 29 | He carried into 1972 the kind of driving which had made his reputation in 1971 , and if you study the fact-sheets for that year — the inaugural race at Paul Ricard in France is a good example — you will see Emerson well back on the grid and yet prevailing in the end to finish well enough . |
| 30 | At Monaco , a race which Hunt does not greatly admire — since the race is meaningless if one is not well up on the grid at the start and passing is well-nigh impossible — he qualified well back on the grid , spun in frustration and then had his engine blow on him . |