Example sentences of "back on [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Brian began to complain of muscle pains and was put back on a low dose papaveretum infusion ( 2–4mg/hr ) . |
2 | Collins should know — he can now look back on a managerial career which spanned Huddersfield , Hull City and Barnsley . |
3 | After the second course he was back on a normal diet , gaining weight rapidly . |
4 | But I 'm getting a , I 'd , I 'd , I 'm up to normal now , I 've got everything back on a normal par I think . |
5 | It sets out , by example as well as by direct command , the differences between right and wrong , so that the man who measures his conduct by Bible standards gains from it both " reproof " when he is in the wrong and " correction " to set him back on a right course . |
6 | Devlin said , ‘ In forty-one , I got back on a neutral boat , a Brazilian cargo ship from Ireland that put in at Lisbon , but that 's a tricky one . |
7 | Upon reaching retirement age Len found that he missed the job so much he came back on a part-time basis . |
8 | You 've got , again , a much more stable population , there are n't nearly so many teachers , young women teachers who leave the system to get married and then perhaps do n't go back at all , or only go back on a part-time basis . |
9 | In practice , however , they often fall back on a similar analysis ( Sarup , 1986 , pp. 40 , 95–8 ) . |
10 | Peter O'Toole 's happiest hour as the Soho scribe looking back on a mis-spent life . |
11 | Statement B seems to admit the greatest amount of contingency into the determination of outcomes , but nevertheless still falls back on a tendential law to explain how racism is reproduced . |
12 | I was relieved to find my protege still motionless underneath his breeze block , so I picked him up , showed him the food and then laid him back on a fresh bed made from the local evening paper . |
13 | ‘ Oh , a party from the castle across the Forth , they gathered it up and it was taken back on a royal barge . ’ |
14 | In 1987 the UK Government went back on a pre-election promise to introduce Landscape Conservation Orders to protect these areas , so proper control from the EEC would be most welcome . |
15 | I mean they , they both firmly saying they 're coming back on a full time basis , |
16 | It was really too cold for the clothes I had brought , so I fell back on a recommended resource . |
17 | Pupils can often fall back on a circular argument such as : Why is the relationship linear ? |
18 | A company enters into a sale and finance leaseback agreement with its pension fund , to sell the fund the company 's headquarters at its current fair market value and then lease it back on a 25 year finance lease . |
19 | LOOKING back on Northern Ireland as it was when the troubles started is uncannily like looking back on a silent movie . |
20 | Having built their cult reputation four years back on a rib-tickling broadside against bar-room self-aggrandisement called ‘ Preposterous Tales In The Life Of Ken McKenzie ’ and the hilariously deadpan ‘ Three English Football Grounds ’ , this South London duo now augment their tinny beatbox-plus-guitar formula with throbbing keyboard moodscapes as in current single ‘ We Stand Around ’ , the most unnerving paean to soccer obsessives ever recorded . |
21 | It was at this point that I decided to put her back on a loose creance , so that she could approach the lure from whatever direction she pleased . |
22 | And they 'll get back on a winning streak by putting the ‘ Ell back in Elland Road — just like it was in the glory days of super manager Don Revie and hard-man skipper Billy Bremner . |
23 | I leaned back on the young tree that as a sapling had been the Killer . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | When the Birmingham architect Joseph Crouch looked back on the nineteenth century , he reflected that ‘ the spirit of Evangelical religion in England has changed in a singular manner during the past fifty or sixty years . |
26 | I were knocked back on the bloody floor . |
27 | He leaned back on the padded headboard and smiled at Shelley . |
28 | Jean-Paul lay back on the silken divans and closed his eyes . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | If you make it a chore or a conflict you are already back on the vicious cycle . |