Example sentences of "[vb infin] back the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not unknown to eventually track back the source of rumour and confusion to events at ‘ Grange Hill ’ . |
| 2 | I 'll be very , very brief erm we can not fall back the control of the country which even the highest rate of recycling that a number of them have already achieved the Government recycling target so now you 've aimed er , I think it 's something rich it more or less stands for er , I would see the role of the County is essentially is co-ordination between the various waste collection authorities through to the greater of the extense of |
| 3 | If they did n't bring back the amount of money he 'd told them to , he beat them with a baseball bat . ’ |
| 4 | Just as the early European explorers of the North Atlantic would bring back the tusks of narwhals and pass them off as the horns of unicorns , so would the early Arabian and Indian sailors bring back the massive bones of the Cassowary as evidence of the giant " roc " of the Sinbad sagas , or the Garuda bird of Hindu mythology , which is today the symbol of Indonesia 's national airline . |
| 5 | Similarly , if we could trace back the ancestry of all the genes in existing mice , through successive replications , for the same long period , we would expect to find those genes in animals belonging to a single species . |
| 6 | The annual saving on your heating bill will therefore pay back the cost of the extra insulation . |
| 7 | He watched a man scratch back the memory of many years . |
| 8 | No amount of censorship could hold back the rise of a new social consciousness bursting to find expression . |
| 9 | When pope , barons and many bishops , as well as the queen and apparently the royal heir , were largely agreed , Reynolds could not hold back the tide of change . |
| 10 | Third , a doctor 's obligation when he can no longer hold back the approach of death is to make the patient comfortable , including easing his pain . |
| 11 | Watts fears not : he fears a return of union militancy ; he fears Labour 's desire to bring water under greater public control will put back the modernisation of the industry . |
| 12 | Given the context — a decade in which a radical , market-minded government had restructured almost all of the public services , in an endeavour to ‘ roll back the frontiers of the state ’ and introduce commercial principles in the provision of social welfare — its contents are surprising . |
| 13 | He added : ‘ If only we could roll back the frontiers of the 1960s . ’ |
| 14 | Mr Krenz , who is certain to become the next target of popular calls for revenge following the corruption revelations , left office warning that ‘ anti-democratic forces ’ could now roll back the process of change he had tried to introduce . |
| 15 | Mr Krenz , who is certain to become the next target of popular calls for revenge following the corruption revelations , left office warning that ‘ anti-democratic forces ’ could now roll back the process of change he had tried to introduce . |
| 16 | Mr Krenz , who is certain to become the next target of popular calls for revenge following the corruption revelations , left office warning that ‘ anti-democratic forces ’ could now roll back the process of change he had tried to introduce . |
| 17 | In each of the areas of major concern for the NVALA , there appeared to them to be influential individuals whose determination to ‘ push back the frontiers of permissiveness ’ was seen as the greatest threat to traditional Christian morality . |
| 18 | A brilliant word-processor proving shareware can push back the boundaries of software value for money . |
| 19 | A brilliant wordprocessor proving shareware can push back the boundaries of software value for money . |
| 20 | I do not think that we can turn back the tide of secularisation altogether in the area of dying , but we can call a halt to it by giving some serious thought to practices within our society and churches . |