Example sentences of "back to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it will be undesirable to put the clock back to traditional farming systems , which had to tolerate diseases , weeds and pests when there was no method of control available , even when agriculture was a labour-intensive industry . |
| 2 | Similarly after we have printed the brochure , a hotelier may decide to change the meal service either to buffet style or back to traditional waiter service . |
| 3 | So we 'd jump up an get one of these rabbit skins and then we 'd take it back to wholesale fruiter in Street , and get fourpence for it . |
| 4 | On Jan. 15 he told a news conference that the FLN regarded the HCS as " unconstitutional " ; its formation left " the way wide open for any kind of adventurism and extremist theses , [ and ] makes the road back to political stability long and arduous " . |
| 5 | He did not marry again until much later , when he was coming back to political life after the economic changes of 1962 , which made the shipping more important . |
| 6 | Whether we like it or not , and I must admit I do , Britain is back to two-and-a-bit party politics and Labour is now favourite to win the next election . |
| 7 | Presumbly Kev had been on the hotline to Wilko at half time and told him to get back to 4–4-2 asap ! |
| 8 | At a meeting tomorrow a proposal will be put forward that the car park revert back to female use for the time being . |
| 9 | Finally a framework which stretches back to distant school days but which retains its validity is that your presentation must have a clear beginning , a middle and an end . |
| 10 | Forster slithered to Delaney and got a grip , pulling him back to comparative safety . |
| 11 | and rushes you back to early childhood . |
| 12 | The origins of this failure may go back to early parenthood . |
| 13 | ‘ It was like turning the clock back to Imperial Tobacco in many ways — it was even sleepier from an internal control point of view — but to be fair , that was why I was hired . ’ |
| 14 | Why could n't they go back to small strategy meetings ? |
| 15 | At the end of the concert he took the four children back to Great Meadow . |
| 16 | When the men of Market Harborough died they were carried back to Great Bowden for burial , back to the country village on whose fields their town had sprung up . |
| 17 | The flight at once broke to the right and formed a defensive circle , the Messerschmitts overshooting them — and probably climbing back to higher altitude . |
| 18 | We must move back to higher ground above the fog . ’ |
| 19 | As the modern term for this genre the word fabliau can be traced back to scholarly writing of the seventeenth century . |
| 20 | On the historical tip , disco has an unsevered umbilical cord which still , even in the current phase of Caucasian robot tribalism , connects straight back to African-American Holiness churches within which preaching was delivered in searing , heavenly voices and the flock lifted up their own voices , spoke in strange tongues , rolled in holy fervour and fell backwards when smitten by the presence of the Lord . |
| 21 | He wore a grey bum freezer , a black polo-neck and Cuban heeled shoes , even after a Vogue chauffeur reported back to managing editor Harry Yoxall that he had picked up ‘ one of those photographers ’ for a New York shoot wearing a leather jacket . |
| 22 | Er , she explained to me a case she had analyzed where she , Anna Freud , was quite certain that some of the symptoms of the woman she was analyzing went back to infantile masturbation . |
| 23 | During this period significant changes were made to the Axminster looms , reconverting them back to two shot weaving and so making great advances in both quality and efficiency . |
| 24 | change back to first colour and knit about 10 rows . |
| 25 | INTEL P5 MICROPROCESSOR PUT BACK TO FIRST QUARTER 1993 |
| 26 | As the moon completes its orbit it seems to shrink or wane through the phases of gibbous , half moon and crescent , back to new moon . |
| 27 | And then we 'll have to deal with that other one and er and , and resolve that one way or the other and make , make sure we 've done that reasonably reasonably quickly , either g sending her back to new business or er trying to find another position for her if she ca n't actually cope with that . |
| 28 | When he got back to New Place , he was not a well man . |
| 29 | It is useful for the client to set him/herself specific homework assignments to complete before the following session — the notion of reporting back to one person , or a group , acts as an incentive for action . |
| 30 | ‘ I cut a picture of a model in a swimsuit out of Vogue and posted it back to one man . |