Example sentences of "back [prep] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mini screen displays temperature and cycle conditions , so the user can scroll back through the preceding 120 hours for information on the performances and temperature range of the unit . |
| 2 | And what we 've done now , and with colleagues from Germany , is to take cores off north west Africa , say about twenty metres down into the sediment , we sample them in the lab here and took the small amounts of sediment and examined them for these long chain compounds and we were extremely excited to see that as we went down this core , back through the last few hundred thousand years , we could see our signal on sea surface temperature oscillating about roughly in the same way that er has been found with other methods of getting at the past history of the climate . |
| 3 | A FRESH wave of confidence swept through the market yesterday and boosted the FT-SE 100 Index back through the psychological 2,700 level . |
| 4 | It is an idea — the idea that the practice of our art should ideally be an avocation rather than a vocation — which has a distinguished and ancient lineage , to be traced back through the English bourgeois idea of ‘ the gentleman ’ to the Italian aristocratic idea of ‘ the courtier ’ . |
| 5 | Leaving the main building at bedtime , I walked back through the old walled garden , the churchyard , and down the grassy lane to the cottage annexe where I had my room . |
| 6 | In Nottinghamshire no less than 164,508 ‘ presumed pickets ’ were turned back during the first 27 weeks of the strike ’ ( Wallington , 1985 : 154 ) . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | He told me , before I first went to England in 1947 , to make sure I came back for the next Australian season so that I would be eligible for selection for the '48 tour . |
| 9 | And when I got back for the last few weeks Mortimer had left … ’ |
| 10 | You 're going back after the normal four days , are n't you , Taff ? ’ |
| 11 | Popular American poetry of the period encouraged not only ‘ the coming together of East and West ’ , but also Vachel Lindsay 's attempts ‘ to carry … vaudeville form back towards the old Greek precedent of the half-chanted lyric ’ . |
| 12 | You would be totally unaffected by it , okay , now there is one way that you might think camp ons are quite strange , and that is , if you 've got a camp on on , right , and somebody 's engaged , but they 're engaged for longer than 75 seconds , you get a ring back , but you do n't get a successful ring back , you get a ring back of the same long , say 2 and a half seconds , it might ring engaged , okay , if the person 's still engaged . |
| 13 | We stepped off the plane into warm balmy air , happy to be back amongst the many English and Maltese friends we have made here . |
| 14 | In all cases it could still be wise to check back against the nine more general objectives that were stated earlier and also refer to the draft checklist 1 ( page 85 ) . |
| 15 | As a rule of thumb , if Target has sufficient distributable reserves to effect the purchase of its own shares , it will also have sufficient capacity to carry back against the preceding six years ' mainstream corporation tax all the ACT incurred on the distribution , so this should not be a real cost . |
| 16 | He tumbled back against the slick damp wall . |
| 17 | If they sit back against the jolly green juggernaut they 'll get run over — make no mistake about it . |
| 18 | Then he ran back along the bare wooden branch that hung across his cage and turning suddenly , raised his wings in the air and lunged forward towards Creggan again . |
| 19 | Yeah yeah yeah and they they 're coming back with the three separate quotes . |
| 20 | Why should Shadrach contemplate for a moment stepping back into the burning fiery furnace ? |
| 21 | The origins of this transformation may be traced back into the late 19th century but the upheaval finally came at the time of Vietnam , flower-power and the campus revolutions . |
| 22 | The writer-self tunnels back into the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart , into the lumber room , dark and sometimes frightening , where memory dwells . |
| 23 | Had it not been for another round of cost cutting , the group would have crept back into the black last year . |
| 24 | It roared back into the black last year to the tune of £6.8 million , compared with taxable losses in 1991 of £1.2 million . |
| 25 | PRESIDENT Alberto Fujimori is striving both to stabilise the economy and to lead the country back into the international financial fold . |
| 26 | Ever since his election as ARFU president in 1988 , French has been involved in many discussions with South African rugby officials assisting and advising them in their aim once again to be welcomed back into the international playing fraternity . |
| 27 | After all that , it 's back into the fabulous chauffeur-driven limousine for the trip home . |
| 28 | Stepping back into the present tense for a moment , we can usefully compare Mrs Leavis 's dismal judgement from the 1930s with a more recent complaint against falling reading standards , issued by C. B. Cox and the ubiquitous Dr Boyson in their educational Black Paper for 1977 . |
| 29 | erm District Council to erm support the er service and we will come back into the thirty thousand council . |
| 30 | He had told them many a fairy story and when they checked , they returned more furious than before , dragging him out of his dirty , fetid pit back into the great vaulted torture chamber to be questioned once again . |