Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] back [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first case , elitism does not provide an explanation , being merely a loose term to describe a social category about which other features rather than the elite characteristic provide what explanation there is ; in the second case , the power elite looks remarkably like a social class , and elite explanation has come back full circle to its point of departure . |
| 2 | He has wooed back respected figures who had quit Pasok , and enticed one former conservative minister , Yannis Boutos , to join him . |
| 3 | AT&T Microelectronics has bought back worldwide marketing rights in the ISDN chip it developed for Sun Sparcstation 10s and has contracted with CoSystems Inc to sell and support the widget . |
| 4 | The mission then cross-checked the names with those of people repatriated to Namibia through the UN High Commissioner for Refugees programme , which has brought back 41,000 Namibians , including most Swapo guerrillas . |
| 5 | Recession has brought back racial politics . |
| 6 | ‘ It has pulled back several miles . |
| 7 | North America and Europe are catching up fast , but it is appropriate that a Japanese company has gone back 30 years for a discarded technology to solve some of the problems . |
| 8 | ‘ For love is something so positive , so strong , so real , ’ he wrote exultantly to Theo , ‘ that it is as impossible for one who loves to take back that feeling as it is to take his own life . ’ |
| 9 | In brief , he has to step back two generations and undergo what one may call a painful cultural circumcision ( God 's Lively People , Fontana , 1971 ) . |
| 10 | The award winner in the urban category was Bridgefoot Multi-Storey in Stratford-upon-Avon , which may turn out to be just the attraction the town needs to woo back Shakespeare-mad Americans jumpy about international travel in the wake of the Gulf War . |
| 11 | The barrier has held back both sides . |
| 12 | Sometimes the party in default makes an offer to put things right , e.g. the seller offers to buy back defective goods . |
| 13 | For every step forward , the institution often seems to slip back two steps . |
| 14 | He is happy coming to Presteigne and hopes to come back next year . |
| 15 | He says that being at Barrow Wake does bring back bad memories . |
| 16 | Following BRS the buyer also makes explicit the common law rules on acceptance by conduct , in case the seller simply fails to send back any acknowledgement at all . |