Example sentences of "[v-ing] back the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does he agree that that would give parents an objective answer to the question , ’ How is my child 's school doing ? ’ , as well as further pressing back the frontiers of choice in education ? |
| 2 | ‘ What 's your name ? ’ he asked , casually tossing back the rest of the ale . |
| 3 | He was in the restaurant kitchen late one night before closing up , knocking back the remains of four glasses of liqueur from a dirty table , when his head suddenly cleared and he heard some lines from the past in a devastating playback in his head : ‘ You 're better off without me ’ — Bella 's voice , coolly justifying herself to him on the telephone . |
| 4 | Their achievement was in pushing back the frontiers of distance running with world records . |
| 5 | Even Captain Kirk has stopped pushing back the frontiers of the universe boldly to go on to the streets as a cop with the unlikely name of Hooker , a case of Starsky being put into a hutch . |
| 6 | THIS is the most advanced operating theatre in Europe , equipped with life-saving devices that are pushing back the frontiers of medical science . |
| 7 | The Climbers : A History of Mountaineering by Chris Bonington ( BBC Books , Hodder and Stoughton , £16.95 ) : Men against the mountain , pushing back the frontiers of the possible . |
| 8 | We are dedicated to experimentation , to pushing back the frontiers of football as we know them , to boldly go where no self-respecting soccer club has gone before , and no , I do not mean the Whaddon and Mitchley Sunday League . |
| 9 | Says Dent : ‘ The plastics industry has a tradition of pushing back the frontiers of technology . |
| 10 | While we believe that it is important to continue researching and improving existing products , we also devote more than 50 per cent of our Research and Development resource to developing new products , pushing back the frontiers of technology . |
| 11 | Increasingly , however , bankers are pushing back the limits of technology-inspired redesign . |
| 12 | It has , by pushing back the boundaries of human knowledge , given us much that has enriched our lives . |
| 13 | A second hour went by , while little by little I abandoned hope first of one bus connection , and then of another , until there were footsteps and a small thin man hurried in , pushing back the strands of hair which had plastered themselves across his forehead . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Instead , she imagines a kind of lifelong therapy , a continuous flow of repressed material , liberated through art and fantasy , pushing back the borders of the self . |
| 16 | BOUNCING BACK THE BRAINS BEHIND THE FUNNIEST FILMS EVER MADE |
| 17 | Powerful groups have ways and means of clawing back the spoils of tactical defeats . |
| 18 | He steadily closed the gap , clawing back the miles between their speeding cars , until only a fast diminishing couple of hundred yards separated them . |
| 19 | And at that stage England were 50 without loss , with Gooch and Mike Atherton seizing back the initiative with some memorable strokes after Ian Healy had spearheaded a gutsy rearguard action . |
| 20 | Shelton has an enormous emotional range but here she showed restraint , as though choking back the extremes of expression with which these dark poems ripple . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't care if she 's got a fucking cannon in there , ’ Farrell snapped , pulling back the slide on the UZI . |
| 23 | Mr Scott says turning back the clock to when Thornaby had its own town council , salaried professional officers and support services is no longer credible . |
| 24 | Welcome back : In a few minutes we 'll be turning back the clock with the men who kept Britain 's coalmines working during the Second World War . |
| 25 | ‘ You know what the trouble is with these bloody monstrosities ? ’ asks Neil Strachan , turning back the pages of the journal with his disapproving Presbyterian fingers . |
| 26 | Er I think my wife would like to take advantage of er buying back the service of the earliest before nineteen seventy three . |
| 27 | Then on December 31 , right before they started ringing in the new tax year , executive vice president Ron Lachman wrote out a cheque to Systemhouse buying back the piece of Interactive that had originally been the most famous part of the old Lachman Associates ( UX No 220 ) . |
| 28 | Sir Anthony had concluded his business with the plump lawyer as far as he was able to overcome his distaste for discussing deals or mentioning money , and he was holding back the brambles for her , as it were , letting her into their company , and she butted through , a young dog again , let out for a walk . |
| 29 | Two factors are holding back the development of GIS applications . |
| 30 | After that , there was no holding back the flow of American capital into the British industry . |