Example sentences of "be [to-vb] back [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , the mummies of the pharaohs , removed from display by President Sadat in 1970 , are to go back on show in the Cairo museum in May . |
| 2 | ‘ You 're to go back to Braine-le-Comte . |
| 3 | Plus , I 've still got to write something witty to drag home , if I 'm to go back to employment that is . |
| 4 | To offer purely economic criteria for its identity would be to slide back into economism . |
| 5 | Given that prices are assumed to remain fixed , their reaction to the building up of stocks in the short-run will be to cut back on output and lay off workers , thereby creating DD unemployment . |
| 6 | The only way to compete with Third World and eastern bloc ships seems to be to cut back on crew rest hours and leave . |
| 7 | IF WILLIAM CAXTON , the father of British printing , were to come back to life after 500 years in the grave , he would see a lot of changes . |
| 8 | The first thing you would notice about the landscape if you were to travel back in time was how wet it was . |
| 9 | The result is to go back to roots of pop music , mixing documentary , fly-on-the-wall conversations and live sets from an interesting assortment of guests , often tackling numbers you would n't normally see them perform on TV . |
| 10 | What I would like to do is to come back on Monday sorry Tuesday , Tuesday , Tuesday . |
| 11 | Ok , so you 've had a great Christmas , but if your New Year 's resolution is to get back into shape then you 'd better check out Kathy Smith 's new Workout videos . |
| 12 | Curbishley said : ‘ My main aim is to get back to fitness and I did n't want to try too much too quickly . |
| 13 | ‘ My mission is to take back to Ramsey such alms as I have been able to gain , at least by the goodwill of Worcester and Evesham . |
| 14 | Going back : Graham Robb , the Tory candidate defeated in Hartlepool at the general election , is to move back to Darlington . |
| 15 | It would also need to pay attention to regional variations , since it is true , even in these days of mass mobility and the mass media , that to travel to a place remote from a major centre of population is to move back in time and rediscover the traditions and practices of an earlier period . |
| 16 | Despite health problems compounded by the trip , Mr Jones is to head back to Romania in three weeks . |
| 17 | The aim of that bill is to cut back on rules and regulations , to reduce the number of statutory instruments which in nineteen ninety two reached a record level of three thousand three hundred and fifty nine , yes three thousand three hundred and fifty nine statutory instruments and here we are debating banks . |
| 18 | Unless I went back to Harwich , I was going to be flat broke in a couple of days and just at that moment the last thing I wanted to do was to go back to Harwich . |
| 19 | The only thing he wanted right now was to go back to Jubilee Wood . |
| 20 | The plan was to look back at intervals after leaving camp to see how long it took for various features of the Land Rover to disappear , so that I would know how much longer there was to walk when they reappeared in the evening . |
| 21 | I thought all this was to get back at Steve for his having had an affair with Maria Luisa . ’ |
| 22 | All Maria wanted was to get back to Mrs Lennox and old Jock again . |
| 23 | His first instinct was to rush back to Isobel . |