Example sentences of "[vb base] back [prep] the [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 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Slightly overbend it and bend back to the correct angle |
| 11 | ‘ He strode up to me , clamped a heavy hand on my shoulder and boomed : ‘ Michael , welcome back to the Daily Mirror . ’ |
| 12 | Welcome back to the mid-'60s , everyone . |
| 13 | Welcome back to the mid-'60s , David . |
| 14 | Welcome back to the Three Counties Show at Malvern , where the weather has been kind , and the crowds have been flocking in . |
| 15 | Welcome back to the three counties show ground . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Shedlock placed it , without explanation , after the vocal finale — thereby severing a beautifully direct link back into the acting text . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 |
| 22 | The roots of our present European fauna extend back to the Miocene . |
| 23 | All too often you pitch the ball short , catch the slope and finish back on the lower layer . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | They were moderns , they must keep faith with their generation and not look back towards the old one . |
| 26 | I think secondly erm whichever country , and you do look back to your roots , and we for better or for worse here look back to the great public school headmaster of a century ago and I still think people want that kind of dynamic drive , that entrepreneurial drive , and who 's to say they 're wrong ? |
| 27 | If we look back to the middle years of the nineteenth century and to the debates about the extension of the franchise to the working class then hopes were expressed as to how voters should behave at the same time as there was anxiety and fear as to how they would actually behave . |
| 28 | Look back to the Fifties in filmstar-style frames from Christian Dior . |
| 29 | They always look back to the old smokestack industries . |
| 30 | In their over-all coverage , therefore Genesis and the tradition represented by Atrakhasis look back to the same events . |