Example sentences of "[vb -s] back [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dick Hebdige stands back from the virtual war |
| 2 | An imposing large house stands back from the main road , known as Thorne Hall , dated 1881 . |
| 3 | Greg Grant looks back to the Victorian adventurers who conquered nature to put a communication girdle around the world . |
| 4 | At a time when plans for global communications seem to rest on the semantics of international standards , Greg Grant looks back to the Victorian adventurers who conquered nature to put a communication girdle around the world . |
| 5 | And it , kind of faces both ways , it , it looks back to the early period of the development of Freud 's thought that we 've already spoken about , and its beginnings back in the eighteen nineties , and in certain other respects , it looks forward , to the kind of revolution that was going to occur after World War Two . |
| 6 | This old way , ‘ With an alien people clutching their gods ’ , looks back to the savage world which Eliot had been exploring , the world trapped in the ritual of ‘ birth , and copulation , and death ’ . |
| 7 | Today , the Mirror looks back to the first tragic deaths in one of the world 's longest and more bitter conflicts . |
| 8 | They were things that you took to enhance your experience and to make it more intense — to make your personal development became part of your life , It was a very high-minded approach and when one looks at what has happened to the drug scene today and one looks back to the prevailing attitudes at the time , one can see the absolute , total abhorrence among drug takers that I knew in those days of amphetamines , heroin , barbiturates , mandrax — all those things that had an adverse physical effect which were considered to by highly dangerous to one 's personal development and to one 's daily living . |
| 9 | But more affecting still is the first half of the record , in which he looks back with a wry , but far from dry , eye on his own childhood . |
| 10 | Judith Grossman 's novel , Her Own Terms , published in 1988 , looks back at a working-class scholarship-girl in the 1950s , who goes to Oxford from a South London Grammar school ; Grossman shows in passing how formidably well-read and linguistically equipped her heroine was . |
| 11 | As the Docklands beer festival fades from view , Martyn Cornell looks back at the sad demise of brewing in the Cockney heartland |
| 12 | The master raconteur looks back at the many amusing moments of his 47-year career at the BBC . |
| 13 | He looks back on a stimulating and happy relationship with his fellow Board members . |
| 14 | Gargy Patel looks back on the first twelve months of the motorway completed after two decades of delay . |
| 15 | Peace People development co-ordinator Patrick Corrigan looks back on the mass rallies of 1976 . |
| 16 | Executive Support Manager Allan Paterson looks back over the TOP Programme as it has progressed at Hunterston and considers some of its achievements . |
| 17 | The car leaps forward , tears between two lorries and lurches back into the middle lane . |
| 18 | I met a teacher recently , one of our best , the sort of charismatic individual with a ready smile , a mind full of anarchic ideas , a love of literature and an effortless but much practised classroom skill which bounces back from the interested eyes 0& his students . |
| 19 | But in November 1950 the Chinese sent some 250 000 " volunteers " across the Yalu , and the war swung back in favour of the North Koreans and their allies as they drove the UN forces back to the 38th parallel . |
| 20 | Then he drags his victim into the bushes or the trees , kills and cuts back to the other road and the car and makes his getaway . |
| 21 | A second application of this technique only leads back to the original solution , apart from an arbitrary complex constant . |
| 22 | But it has a lyrical depth which reaches back to the great black music of the Seventies and artists like Stevie Wonder and Curtis Mayfield , while touching on Steely Dan , Elvis Costello and Joy Division . |
| 23 | Elsewhere , like on ‘ Criminals ’ or ‘ Shaky Ground ’ , you get all the weird , unresolved chording that Michael Stipe favours , and a suitably battered vocal that reaches back to the old mountain music and forward to Dinosaur Jr , Lemonheads and Nick Cave . |
| 24 | This is what it means to say that Dostoevsky brushes against Raskolnikov and Svidrigailov as he reaches back towards the underground man . |
| 25 | Ronnie Biggs harks back to a bygone age . |
| 26 | ‘ Each panic harks back to a mythical age of contentment and social order . ’ |
| 27 | Yet despite a modulatory and harmonic palette occasionally redolent of mid-Classicism , his employment of formal procedures unmistakably harks back to the bygone era ( much the same could be said of Mozart 's church music ) . |
| 28 | The architecture shows the influence of the Italian colonisation ; the modern harbour harks back to the healthy export of livestock to the Gulf States ; and the large scale agricultural activity in the adjacent fertile valley now lies dormant with equipment and crops stolen and even the electricity pylons stripped of their cables . |
| 29 | The latter phrase harks back to the bare trust provision in section 6(3) . |
| 30 | The synthesised audible warning harks back to the 25 , but the computer controlled , MacPherson strut-based self-levelling air suspension is much more ‘ cutting edge ’ for Renault . |