Example sentences of "back [prep] the [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Morris sprawled back in the one armchair with his whisky , watching them all impassively . |
| 2 | Suddenly , this had become a special event and Lewis knew it , for his playing took on a new intensity as he began to alternate between rock ‘ n ’ roll classics from his early career back in the Fifties Sun era to later country material . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | By 1979 energy consumption was almost back to the 1973 level but this trend was abruptly curtailed by the second oil shock which contributed to the worst recession in the UK since the Second World War . |
| 7 | And the chances are that by the time the market picks up again in 1991 we will be back to the 1983 figure . |
| 8 | There is a sense in which after much complex art , much elaborate art , much sermonizing art of the sort I was talking about earlier , people sometimes get the urge to simplify things down and in a sense they say let's go back to the five finger exercise , let's see what a note on the piano sounds like instead of playing , you know , Chopin or Stravinsky all the time , let's remind ourselves what the actual note sounds like , or two notes together , or one note and then a gap and then another note , and you suddenly become aware of the richness , in a sense in these very simple elements . |
| 9 | All of which brings us back to the 1987 State of World Population Report and its coded messages . |
| 10 | UNCED itself , however , was launched as a result of a UN General Assembly resolution passed in December 1989 [ see p. 37433 ] , which referred back to the 1987 report of the World Commission on Environment and Development chaired by the then Norwegian Prime Minister , Gro Harlem Brundtland [ see pp. 35227-29 ] . |
| 11 | This in turn referred back to the 1987 report of the World Commission on Environment and Development , commonly known as the Brundtland Commission after its chair , the then Norwegian Prime Minister , Mrs Gro Harlem Brundtland . |
| 12 | If you cast your mind back to the 1966 World Cup , you may recall that Pak Doo Ik , the North Korean forward , also wore odd shorts and he went on to score the winner against Italy , so I thought it was worth a try . |
| 13 | ( Since 1985 , as Table 9.3 will show , the cost of oil imports has fallen substantially , although not completely back to the 1979 level . ) |
| 14 | The tithe maps of Halling show all the property belonging to the Bishop of Rochester , but also that of owners bordering on these lands , so if we go back to the 1633 estate map we find that lands above the Pilgrims Road and in the area around Court Farm are owned by Luson or Leveson and the 1731 map shows Marsham and R. Wood as present owners . |
| 15 | Each had had a different school experience : one in a G.P.D. S.T. school right through from its junior department , another going from a local primary school to the secondary school for year , then to a formerly all-boys but now mixed public school up to the V form , and then back to the VI form College in her home area . |
| 16 | Some aspects of open enrolment go back to the 1980 Education Act . |
| 17 | In these uncertain and troubled circumstances he was called back to the one thing outside his faith in which he could place his trust . |
| 18 | So we come back to the one explanation which resolves every difficulty : the ‘ discovery ’ made by the monks of Canterbury in 1120–21 , as the canons of York at once realized , was the moment of their enlargement . |
| 19 | We are back to the three act drama with which we began . |
| 20 | The problem of organization went back to the 1881 Scheme which Higginson If I understood that Scheme at all " — took to mean that the two schools ( Upper and Lower ) were to he united absolutely into one . |
| 21 | The current embrace in Britain of utility clothing and design is best traced back to the Eighties baseball thing — the period when genuine US clothing brands , from workwear to sports names like Russell Athletic , began turning up in shops like London 's Passenger and The Duffer of St George . |
| 22 | As the line that seemingly connects the two circle centres needed close scrutiny , I went back to the 1:25,000 scale maps or the area and laid a straight edge along the apparent intersection . |
| 23 | But going back to the 1944 triptych , you called it a base for the Crucifixion . |
| 24 | That heralded a sudden wave of institutional profit-taking-the first serious bout in two months — aggressively pushing the market back to the 2,650 level by late morning . |