Example sentences of "[vb pp] back in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Ibrahim Sadek , an Egyptian engineering consultant , lays the blame on the lack of unleaded fuel and to state production of outdated car engines : ‘ We are producing Fiats with engines designed back in the Forties ’ , he told the World Conference on Preparing for Climatic Change which ended in Cairo yesterday . |
| 2 | But they were pegged back in the 41st minute when John Bumstead scored with a diving header from Scott Minto ’ s centre . |
| 3 | This house was first built back in the 1890s as a residence for the local missionary . |
| 4 | The next psychological breakpoint is the 1,000dpi mark which was the point at which digital phototypesetting began to be accepted back in the late 60s and through the 70s . |
| 5 | Before that the village 's only successful days had occurred back in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries , when it was a centre of the Basque whaling trade . |
| 6 | Dunwoody was surprised when the judge called him the winner on Remittance Man in the opening Bristol Novice Hurdle , believing Peter Scudamore had got back in the final strides on the favourite Regal Ambition after being headed halfway up the run-in . |
| 7 | It is a highly successful adaptation of an advertisement which was first shown back in the early 1980s in Britain . |
| 8 | If you use an equaliser during your video editing sessions , carefully check the effect of each adjustment as you go , by monitoring the sound over a loudspeaker ( headphones may not give a true impression of how the tone corrections will sound when played back in the normal way ) . |
| 9 | Housing was the first of the public sector programmes to be tied back in the 1960s . |
| 10 | As it turned out , the principal had caught the other boys , and they were all being marched back in the front door of the school , but Mouse did n't know that . |
| 11 | Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp shares jumped almost 8.5% on Friday on hopes that the government will spend heavily on a major new communications network : Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa said on Thursday that an economic stimulus package , widely expected to include funds for a network of high-speed fibre optic cables , would be even larger than 1992 's supplementary budget ; if the government steps in with new funding , the state-controlled phone company would likely end up laying the cable and providing services ; the project is the one first mooted back in the early 1980s to connect every home and business in Japan . |
| 12 | The possibility of a bypass was first mooted back in the 1930s , but the notion was recently resurrected as a solution to the picturesque village 's traffic problems . |
| 13 | Had IBM known back in the early 1980s what it knows now , it would have opened up its VM operating system , which also has its roots in development , but , coming from the button-down IBM world has many more security and management features than Unix started out with . |
| 14 | The Peke-faced cat was known back in the 1930s , but the other three were all discovered in the 1960s and were quickly established by enthusiastic local breeders , delighted to be founding new lines of pedigree cats . |
| 15 | I think the answer is to be found back in the basic theory . |
| 16 | When he had arrived back in the cold dawn that early morning after the night with Emily , it was to find his landlady Mrs McIntosh waiting , his valise and books by her , her face severe . |
| 17 | The majority , the huge majority , were to be shipped back in the same closed trains to the Motherland of Russia . |
| 18 | Her black hair was swept back in the careless style that only the most expensive hairdressing can give . |
| 19 | Calico , which got started back in the early 1980s and which Unir claims AT&T could n't push because of USL and C++ , has reportedly 200 man/years invested in it . |
| 20 | Now she was sunk back in the same state , or perilously near to it . |
| 21 | My next book was due to have been a literary novel but that 's been put back in the top drawer . |
| 22 | These fields in humans were discovered back in the 1940s and 1950s . |
| 23 | In spite of the growing success , there was still never any spare cash as profits were endlessly ploughed back in the unremitting quest for newer , more powerful machinery . |
| 24 | Daine had been caught and convicted back in the real world . |
| 25 | It is a large-scale data collection and analysis exercise begun back in the early 1960s by the General Electric Company . |
| 26 | He 'd begun back in the fifties as a prison officer . |
| 27 | The biggest category by far in this year 's list is the one for which the awards were originally created back in the 1960s , the Export Awards . |
| 28 | Thus was sexual liberation defined by an almost exclusively male heterosexual group , drawing on old subversions — Dada , Surrealism , Beat , Situationism — diffused through the mass-market expansion into commercial sex that Playboy had pioneered back in the 1950s . |
| 29 | Her breasts were stranded back in the fifties . |
| 30 | When there is this kind of historical development of a signal system it is important that it should not be read back in the exclusive terms of later signals . |