Example sentences of "[vb base] back [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he can not accept it , can he at least dispatch a team of Scottish Office officials to see matters on the ground and report back to the Scottish Office on the grim situation faced by the islands ? |
| 2 | In summing up on this ideas section , we seem to be moving towards advocating that you : ( i ) fix on some aims or targets or intentions ( ii ) decide how these might relate to the actions and behaviour of pupils and teachers ( iii ) try to produce a teaching unit that is illustrative of these intentions and that strives towards promoting some of the desired behaviour ( iv ) report back on the actual relationship between the intentions and the behaviour . |
| 3 | The Six agreed to hold an intergovernmental committee , to be headed by the tireless Paul-Henri Spaak , which would consider , flesh out and report back on the various proposals . |
| 4 | A FRESH wave of confidence swept through the market yesterday and boosted the FT-SE 100 Index back through the psychological 2,700 level . |
| 5 | Ranulf sprang up , pleased to abandon the fresh air of the country and head back to the seamy streets of London and the rounded pleasure-giving body of Mistress Semplar . |
| 6 | They were piled haphazardly , some put back in the wrong sleeves , and were mainly recordings of Italian opera . |
| 7 | Tack into a gap once you have expended about half the time to the start from the buoy , then even if you sail back at the same speed , you can not be early . |
| 8 | I wiped sweat off my forehead with my fingers and stood quietly , holding on , trying to let the oxygen level in my blood climb back to a functioning state . |
| 9 | I replace the spare rounds in the small cardboard box , look around for where to put them , then slip them into my jacket pocket , and ease back into the comfortable armchair . |
| 10 | It will be argued in later chapters , for example , that processes within state enterprises act back upon the wider political context and modify its impact . |
| 11 | Slightly overbend it and bend back to the correct angle |
| 12 | The Sergeant galloped past a man and cut back with a savage slash of his sword . |
| 13 | French polish or varnish , cut back with a fine grade of wirewool and wax , will give a good finish , and a dark tinted wax worked well into the corners will add a bit of instant age . |
| 14 | ‘ He strode up to me , clamped a heavy hand on my shoulder and boomed : ‘ Michael , welcome back to the Daily Mirror . ’ |
| 15 | Welcome back to the mid-'60s , everyone . |
| 16 | Welcome back to the mid-'60s , David . |
| 17 | Welcome back to the Three Counties Show at Malvern , where the weather has been kind , and the crowds have been flocking in . |
| 18 | Welcome back to the three counties show ground . |
| 19 | This Autumn Statement and the new economic policy it set down must be judged on whether it gets the country back to work , reduces the dole queues and brings hope back to the British people . |
| 20 | A glance back at the collective situation of first generation Caribbeans in the UK is enough to understand why black parents do not encourage their children 's sporting endeavours . |
| 21 | Somehow , though , Leith 's sensitivity picked up a strained atmosphere as she pulled her glance back from the stocky man who had taken it into his head to start walking over . |
| 22 | Shedlock placed it , without explanation , after the vocal finale — thereby severing a beautifully direct link back into the acting text . |
| 23 | If you stir enough of them together and stand back for a few hundred million years , the result is likely to be a chemical entity capable of reproducing itself — one of the fundamental differences between living and nonliving material . |
| 24 | I would put on a tape of Tudor madrigals — a new interest — and lie back in the contoured leather seats , letting myself melt into the crevices of Morley 's sinuous six-part harmony and observing the surrounding misery with mounting satisfaction . |
| 25 | The instruction then operates as follows : Load A and L into internal processor registers Perform the comparison with the word at A If the comparison is successful , terminate the instruction Otherwise , decrement L and increment A If L is zero , terminate the instruction Otherwise , jump back to the second line |
| 26 | The roots of our present European fauna extend back to the Miocene . |
| 27 | From a different political quarter , the Green movement is resurrecting environmental issues which again tie back into a possible new vogue for planning . |
| 28 | All too often you pitch the ball short , catch the slope and finish back on the lower layer . |
| 29 | When I look back on the long friendship , I realize that I need not have had certain misgivings about troubling Eliot or taking up his time — misgivings due to temperamental diffidence rather than to genuine modesty , I am afraid — because he was both generous of his time and solicitous about the welfare of those in whom lie took an interest . |
| 30 | They were moderns , they must keep faith with their generation and not look back towards the old one . |