Example sentences of "be [verb] back [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Workfare was on the committee 's agenda but the committee has now been wound up and it is thought workfare has been pushed back as an idea requiring long-term consideration rather than implementation in the near future . |
| 2 | Love-making 's not easy when you 're driving back from an evening meeting in Cheltenham to reach London by 1.30am and you both have to be up early for work the next day . ’ |
| 3 | So do you think you 're inventing your own tradition , which is a perfectly time honoured and respectable thing to do , or do you think you 're harking back to an old tradition or or what ? |
| 4 | In that year , the Norwegian Olaf and Swegan the Dane vented their fury on the shire , having been driven back from an attempt on London . |
| 5 | All information should be confidential in the sense that it can not be traced back to an individual , i.e. anonymity must be guaranteed to achieve frankness . |
| 6 | The Faculty also calls for group losses surrendered ( within a ‘ 75% group ’ ) , which can not be relieved in the same accounting period , to be allowed to be carried back to an earlier accounting period . |
| 7 | ‘ Now if the defendants were bound to charge the plaintiff for the carriage of his goods a less sum , and they refused to carry them except upon payment of a greater sum , as he was compelled to pay the amount demanded , and could not otherwise have his goods carried , the case falls within the principle of several decided cases , in which it has been held that money which a party has been wrongfully compelled to pay under circumstances in which he was unable to resist the imposition , may be recovered back in an action for money had and received . |
| 8 | It has been well argued that the payment having been voluntary , it can not be recovered back in an action for money had and received . |
| 9 | It has been well argued that the payment having been voluntary , it can not be recovered back in an action for money had and received . |
| 10 | Long hair must be held back with an elastic band : clasps and metal grips are not allowed . |
| 11 | If we 'd been put back with an American maybe it meant that at least one of us could expect to be released . |
| 12 | They took the lead courtesy of Trevor Smith 's sixth goal of the season but were pegged back by an equaliser from Johnny Jameson who failed to appear for the second half . |
| 13 | Mozart 's hopes were set back at an early stage for on 29 September he reported a conversation with Prince Zeill who said the Elector had told him : |
| 14 | It is incredible that the Labour party , which has reformed itself and brought itself up to date in so many other policies , is going back to an old policy on local government finance . |
| 15 | And she said , when she qualifies it will be years before she 's gets back to an F grade ! |
| 16 | For example , if a first-generation hybrid between a brown and an albino mouse is crossed back to an albino , the offspring will be in the ratio 1 brown to 1 albino : if two hybrids are mated to one another , the ratio will be 3 brown to 1 albino . |
| 17 | The signal is converted back into an analogue waveform just before it is fed to the picture tube and loudspeakers . |
| 18 | In a deep trance , the subject is taken back to an earlier age , in order to discover the possible cause of a problem , such as a phobia , or a psychological reason for a physiological condition , which , on the surface , appears to have no organic cause . |
| 19 | When the twelfth-century bard , Cynddelw , recalled ‘ the clash of Powys … with Oswald ’ , he was looking back on an episode which had considerable significance not only for the Welsh but also for the Mercians . |
| 20 | Boniface was looking back to an age in which the privileges of the churches of the Anglo-Saxons had been untouched and inviolate , or so it was thought , and he saw this age as ending — as he tells Aethelbald — in the time of Ceolred , king of the Mercians , and Osred , king of the Northumbrians ( both of whose reigns ended in 716 ) , whom Boniface accuses of behaving as Aethelbald was now doing and as a consequence of which they both perished miserably . |
| 21 | When I arrived at MGM , I felt like I was going back to an enormous boarding school again . |