Example sentences of "back on the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I leaned back on the young tree that as a sapling had been the Killer . |
| 2 | WHEN THE Generating Board had tired of its investigations in the Dorset hinterland and its tussles with the Cornish protesters , it decided to fall back on the one site in the West Country where it felt confident it could successfully build the second British Pressurized Water Reactor . |
| 3 | When the Birmingham architect Joseph Crouch looked back on the nineteenth century , he reflected that ‘ the spirit of Evangelical religion in England has changed in a singular manner during the past fifty or sixty years . |
| 4 | I were knocked back on the bloody floor . |
| 5 | He leaned back on the padded headboard and smiled at Shelley . |
| 6 | Jean-Paul lay back on the silken divans and closed his eyes . |
| 7 | The journey back on the four mile journey took 24 minutes against 27 for the outward one , the brakesmen on both bogie trailer cars helping to control the descent . |
| 8 | If you make it a chore or a conflict you are already back on the vicious cycle . |
| 9 | Finding myself in the coal bunker at the back of the bungalow I did nothing till the morning of dawning when maximum light was to be utilised for a rather essential cold water wash under an outside tap , and I was soon back on the solid road remarking that the hedgerows ' newborn leaves utter great things . |
| 10 | That famous stain was back on the front steps . |
| 11 | In summing up on this ideas section , we seem to be moving towards advocating that you : ( i ) fix on some aims or targets or intentions ( ii ) decide how these might relate to the actions and behaviour of pupils and teachers ( iii ) try to produce a teaching unit that is illustrative of these intentions and that strives towards promoting some of the desired behaviour ( iv ) report back on the actual relationship between the intentions and the behaviour . |
| 12 | We then suggested that people create small groups in which individual responses could be gathered together and discussed before the chosen spokesperson reported back on the collective view . |
| 13 | Persian forces crossed the river Araxes in mid-July 1826 and forced Russia 's frontier troops to fall back on the Georgian capital of Tiflis ( Tbilisi ) . |
| 14 | Back on the 17th fairway the wait of ten minutes had given Andy time to think . |
| 15 | ‘ He will be satisfied if he gets back on the Irish team , but it is not possibility he could push himself right to the forefront . ’ |
| 16 | Workers will not be allowed back on the out-of-service Vulcan II well in Conoco 's Vulcan field until the area is completely clear of gas . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , unless we are to fall back on the unsatisfactory practice of listing verbs which do support the construction and those which do not , some other factor must be waiting to be discovered , which will help to explain why ( 56 ) and ( 67 ) seem outright ungrammatical , and yet we can have either of ( 68 ) and ( 69 ) : ( 68 ) Tania left despondently ( 69 ) Tania left despondent To conclude , we may point out that there will clearly be a close connexion , under certain choices of lexical items , between the surface construction ( 44 ) and ordinary predicative position . |
| 18 | Looking back on the scant evidence we have to assume that , along with the guilty , some innocent men and women went to their deaths , despite their confessions . |
| 19 | I would buy the parchment and arrange its transport down to the wharves and we concluded that , if we sold the wine brought back on the first voyage , we would make a profit . |
| 20 | They 're coming back on the first Wednesday of next month with a bus load of about forty Women 's Institute members — ’ She broke off as she realised he was staring at her in horror . |
| 21 | they booked a six week holiday coming back on the first week on boxing day they 've got free car hire for the whole six weeks , not the insurance . |
| 22 | On present form , future generations are likely to look back on the 1992 election — with its emphasis on marginal tax rates — as at best rather quaint , or at worst a tragic irrelevance . |
| 23 | The ageing NI team is looking back on the key events of the last decade of the millennium . |
| 24 | Last time round they went to south east Asia , trekked in Nepal as far as the Everest base camp , saw Thailand and China then came back on the Trans-Siberian Railway . |
| 25 | PIETER MULLER from South Africa — mentioned in those pages by John Robbie as one of the future ‘ hopes ’ when the Springboks are back on the international scene — is starring in the centre for GREYSTONES , Robbie 's former Irish club , in the AIL second division . |
| 26 | I 've enjoyed my four years at Widnes but I think a change of clubs will help me get back on the international scene , ’ said Tait , 27 , who has agreed a three-year contract with the Headingley club . |
| 27 | That would be the end of any engagements elsewhere , just when he was beginning to get back on the international circuit . |
| 28 | Celia fell back on the only excuse she felt able to make . |
| 29 | The poignant music drifted into the coffee-house , and Meredith settled back on the Victorian chair to enjoy it and her surroundings . |
| 30 | With continued social unrest in Britain through the eighties and into the early nineties , it is clear that social protest , particularly with regard to the attitudes and responses of those in authority to collective violence , is back on the political agenda . |