Example sentences of "are [v-ing] back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As fish are sinking back through the surface , other fish will be appearing through it , so that there is constant activity . |
| 2 | But meanwhile many Japanese eyes are turning back to the root cause : policy co-ordination and America . |
| 3 | No-one can deny that being pretty helps — no female on breakfast television would have a career otherwise — but I can not believe that we are turning back to the dark days when it was deemed the most important thing of all . |
| 4 | Burned by their experience of the volatility of the capital markets , many leading banks such as Bank of America and Lloyds are pulling back from the periphery of their systems to defend their home bases . |
| 5 | Perhaps we are heading back in a full-circle towards the days of Victorian philanthropy — Back towards the days before state provision when organisations like Barnardos , the Salvation Army and the C.O.S. were the dominant providers . |
| 6 | THE enthusiastic housekeeper will no doubt be pleased to hear that the carpet retailers are going back to the twist . |
| 7 | PHYSICS lecturers are going back to the nursery to teach toddlers in the water tub while admissions tutors consider the merits of palm-reading and astrology for selecting students at Newcastle Polytechnic . |
| 8 | It 's just as well they are going back inside the lavatory . |
| 9 | De Klerk said his visit showed South Africa and the world that " we are moving back to the fold " . |
| 10 | The arrows in the drawing are moving back from the boundary of the information field to the centre . |
| 11 | I hope all local areas will think about acquiring a stock of good movement photographs of local people which could be sent to the press in support of a feature — many local papers are cutting back on the expense of sending photographers out to events but are delighted to use suitable contributions . |
| 12 | Shoppers who were increasingly being scared off by the threat of town-centre misbehaviour and the fear of visiting football crowds , are flocking back under the watchful gaze of the cameras , which are monitored 24 hours a day by an Airdrie police team . |
| 13 | Some are seeking independence and freedom from family or institutional repression ; some are escaping from problems or abuse whether at home , within the family , or at school ; some are running back to the family and away from care authorities . |
| 14 | He added : ‘ For the fourth time , they are coming back to the people and asking everybody to forget two recessions , forget millions unemployed , forget thousands of bankruptcies and thousands more whose homes have been repossessed . |
| 15 | More children are coming back to the library to work because teachers give the initial push by bringing them … |
| 16 | ( Hereford cattle entries have slumped to an all time low of just fifty nine here at the show.The ancient local breed has been hit by competition from Continental cattle.But now the Hereford farmers are fighting back with a scheme to boost beef sales.Richard Barnett reports : ) |
| 17 | The British people are fighting back against the shoddy treatment with which we have put up for so long . |
| 18 | When you are working back from the cosine , sine or tangent you do n't know which of the 2 possible angles is correct . |