Example sentences of "[is] [verb] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The governments ' answer , it seems , is to go back to the ERM as it worked for most of the 1980s — a more flexible ERM , in which exchange-rate realignments happened now and then , instead of being resisted at all costs . |
| 2 | If you have genuine difficulty in keeping to the diet in this book or any other diet , your best bet is to go back to the calorie-counting method , supervised by a diet club , dietitian , or doctor . |
| 3 | Now at this juncture here you would n't actually say what products you 're gon na do , cos you 're not gon na go back and say well I 'm thinking of er two hundred thousand pounds of convertible term assurance and we 're looking personal pension plan , but you 'll tell the guy you 're gon na go back to the branch , we 've got a variety of different things sir and what I wan na do is to go back to the branch and work on one or two ideas for you and then present them to you at some time in the future . |
| 4 | Perhaps the other point I can make is to go back to the question of why women tutors and people in the university generally have emphasised harassment of students by academic staff more than they 've emphasised harassment by students of one another , and I think it 's not that it was thought that students did n't commonly make each other uncomfortable , but as an issue of principle in terms of whether it 's appropriate for university or college authorities to intervene in what many people regard as students ' private lives . |
| 5 | The mats are formed by a special cutting and macerating machine which harvests the grass and presses it into a five to ten millimetre layer which is placed back on the stubble . |
| 6 | Shortly after he is flown back to the mainland , to the most south naval base of Rio Grande in Tierra del Fuego . |
| 7 | There are encouraging signs , however , that the TV western is struggling back into the saddle . |
| 8 | A proportion is intercepted by the leaves and stems of plants , and some is evaporated back into the atmosphere . |
| 9 | It is not entirely clear why the end of such features grows for a period and then is recurved back towards the coast . |
| 10 | The tax is claimed back from the Tax Office by either the college or the Association , or both . |
| 11 | Larger gravel is discharged back into the river . |
| 12 | The whale turns broadside so that it is lifted back into the sea . |
| 13 | The Bill is reported back to the whole House as amended . |
| 14 | The stricken David Lawrence is carried back to the dressing-room . |
| 15 | When the penis is stimulated by touch , the " feeling message " is carried back to the spinal cord at the sacral level from which the nerves emerge . |
| 16 | Nahh … what I 'd really like to do is come back as the guy who shot Reagan a few years back , only I would n't miss ! |
| 17 | The ageing NI team is looking back on the key events of the last decade of the millennium . |
| 18 | A price is settled and the fish is pushed back down the stairs , flumpity , flump , bump . |
| 19 | The vehicles are put away again , and the now cold and slightly unappetising evening meal is pushed back into the microwave . |
| 20 | The real test of any training , of course , is how well it is applied back at the workface , and apart from Neale 's role in P-E , only the coming cricket season will show him how effective the Grid can be . |
| 21 | Assessment is likely to have educational value , however , only if the outcome is fed back to the senior house officer . |
| 22 | As body weight is transferred back to the centre of the machine , lifting the bike still further , the rider heaves himself forward over the front . |
| 23 | Will he take a personal interest in stopping this scandalous dumping and make sure that the overshoot is clawed back during the next two years , the time remaining to the EC-Chinese trade agreement ? |
| 24 | The emergence of the superego vastly extended this trend because it represented a characteristically human — or , we might say , neurotic — tendency : namely , an ability to redirect a drive to the extent that it is turned back against the ego itself ( i.e. , hate of the father becomes hate of oneself for hating him ) . |
| 25 | Freud 's finding was that guilt is , starts off as an aggressive drive in the id that could go anywhere , preferably towards other people , but the superego uses some of this aggression and destructive energy arising in the id and then turns it back against the ego , and uses it to punish the ego , so the aggression , instead of going into someone else or into the outside world , is turned back against the self and to that extent is self-destructive . |
| 26 | Next the first capacitor is connected back to the input so that a fresh sample voltage is taken . |
| 27 | The flow rate is adjustable , and so is the angle at which the water is pumped back into the tank — upward or downward as well as to either side . |
| 28 | Working reflectively , light shown here as transmitted is reflected back through the cell , re-twisted , and seen by the viewer . |
| 29 | If he takes an ( optical ) photograph of the wall he will have a snap of featureless plaster , as the light is reflected back from the surface and not from inside the structure . |
| 30 | Suddenly , after a century of realism and what Rice calls ‘ little Protestant novels ’ , the tide is turning back towards the fantastical , towards ‘ magic , the extreme and the eccentric ’ . |