Example sentences of "be [vb pp] back to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To achieve this it will be essential to create a culture where services are given back to the people and delivered with the attitude that the ‘ customer is sovereign ’ . |
| 2 | Mrs Leinen fears if they are flown back to the United States she 'll lose custody forever . |
| 3 | A spokesman for the ministry confirmed that an outbreak of food poisoning in Bedworth in July had been traced back to the monastery . |
| 4 | The choice of 6 January for this purpose has been traced back to the gnostic Christians of Egypt , the corresponding date in the calendar used there being traditionally associated with the blessing of the Nile . |
| 5 | This tradition has been traced back to the sixth century AD . |
| 6 | The origins of the black cat , as a distinct colour type , have been traced back to the ancient Phoenicians , who sneaked some of the sacred cats out of Egypt and began trading in them around the Mediterranean . |
| 7 | An NRA spokesman said the spillage had been traced back to the Lartington Treatment Works , where there had been no threat to drinking water . |
| 8 | Where the wings of pain had dropped him , there had miraculously been infinite but unblinding light , a great strenuous joy that was somehow calm , like a crystal bowl that you do not drink out of , and now he had been floated back to the comfortable shore of his cool clean bed . |
| 9 | The issue has been referred back to the MacLeod Estates , from whom a reply is awaited . |
| 10 | A number of test cases on Sunday trading and the possible conflict with the treaty of Rome have already come before the European Court and all have been referred back to the various countries involved . |
| 11 | The residuals are smoothed using the same recipe as before , and the results are added back to the results of the first smooth ; this is illustrated in exercise 9.1 . |
| 12 | Hoping against hope that she had not ducked out back to her own flat — not that she 'd blame her ! — Leith skirted the room until her eyes were drawn to a settee that had been pushed back to the side of the room . |
| 13 | The sea breeze was strong enough to mould the skirts of passing women , and Grunte , who could remember little of the events of the night , save that he had spent a good deal of money feeding the faces of his party faithful ( ‘ Pity about Hyacinth ’ ) , and that he had been seen back to the Grand after a drink or two by Leroy Burns ( ‘ Grand fellow , must see if I ca n't find him another Sierra ’ ) , gave thought to his pending performance . |
| 14 | It was therefore with great irritation that I noticed a day or two later that they had all been moved back to the ‘ General Interest ’ section . |
| 15 | Some of those contributions are channelled back to the Church Commissioners for distribution . |
| 16 | When the project is completed , the group members are transferred back to the basic structure , or they are given operating responsibility for the new product in a new unit . |
| 17 | I 'm going to recommend to IMP that you 're sent back to the laboratory and they send us someone we know and trust ! |
| 18 | In October 1944 the Leaders faced the problem of redecorating the Primary School room which had been handed back to the church after having been in use during the War as a First Aid Post for a unit of the St John 's Ambulance Brigade led by Miss Mary Lutton . |
| 19 | Baby One has been handed back to the local health authority and is being cared for at another hospital . |
| 20 | German embassy officials in Moscow said the unframed pictures , contained in a battered brown portfolio , had been handed back to the embassy by a former Red Army officer who insisted on remaining anonymous . |
| 21 | Four bags of toxic waste which were found abandoned on the Oxford ring road have been handed back to the company that lost them . |
| 22 | The sound waves bounce off objects in their path and are reflected back to the dolphin where they are channelled through oil-filled sinuses in the lower jaw to the inner ear . |
| 23 | Note that only some of the additional text rows created by lexicographic activity in the Working-Set are copied back to the Main Database . |
| 24 | He saw service in both world wars , having been called back to the RAF reserve when the Second World War broke out and stayed in until 1947 . |
| 25 | I certainly would n't have been invited back to the Parsons ' , but I could have lived with that . |
| 26 | For a moment , until the old men had been dragged back to the barricade , all was chaos . |
| 27 | But the Allies had been driven back to the borders of India by the initial Japanese offensive . |
| 28 | The evacuees included 3,000 who had returned to their homes on Monday but had been driven back to the centres by the volcano 's sulphurous stench . |
| 29 | Several placements have broken down , including that for one person in this study ( WG ) , who was returned to hospital at the last datapoint ( this person has since been brought back to a staffed house in her home district ) . |
| 30 | And with that slice of humour , we are brought back to the present . |