Example sentences of "back on [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And for the disabled , for a short while , you 're back on equal terms with life . |
| 2 | The Ridley Report : Unique event back on calmer waters Ian Ridley on a triumph for tradition after last year 's acrimony between two old heavyweights |
| 3 | We felt it right to accept the inevitable costs at this stage in the economic cycle and not to cut back on long-term plans that will strengthen the economy . |
| 4 | The open-ended commitment to a vastly expensive discretionary scheme for criminal injuries compensation , sanctioned by statute in 1988 but not yet brought into force at the time of writing , was a particular Treasury bête noire , leading to pressure to cut back on other things if Ministers maintained that it was politically unacceptable to curtail the cost . |
| 5 | If you 're planning the holiday of a lifetime or aiming to spend fortunes on a new hobby or faddish craze you 'll have to cut back on other expenses Saturday . |
| 6 | Sometimes , though , an adult gets its own back on such short-changers by accepting their sperm , not for fertilisation , but as a welcome snack . |
| 7 | In 1990 there was a breakthrough in public consciousness when entire libraries were being closed in the Midlands and other parts of Britain , and other libraries were cutting back on new books , or freezing purchase grants . |
| 8 | And in 1944 when Cole wrote his book as part of the Movement 's centenary tribute to the Rochdale Pioneers , when Consumers ' Co-operation could still look back on many decades of unbroken success , it would have been as natural for him to suppose that the Pioneers had in this respect been mistaken and that their mistake stood in need of explanation . |
| 9 | I brought my bombs back on many occasions , because I am quite certain we never got anywhere near anything that looked like a target . |
| 10 | Sun-tanned , fit and contented , we could look back on fourteen days of carefree cruising ; four hundred miles through some of the finest scenery in the British Isles with the freedom of the hills for good measure . |
| 11 | While the preparatory drafts , drawn up in Rome before the Council opened and very largely rejected by the fathers , had made heavy use of scholastic terminology and not much of Scripture — as was generally characteristic of pre-conciliar theology — the Council almost systematically reversed this , eliminating scholastic terms again and again and falling back on biblical ones . |
| 12 | However , cutting back on personal items does not always produce the necessary economies . |
| 13 | but even more content to have me hoe the weeds and ungum the filters for her while she sat half-naked on an ancient natural tube steel chair tipped back on two legs against the natural pulpboard side of her natural module A farmhouse , playing her warped old guitar . |
| 14 | He leaned the chair back on two legs and put the sole of one shoe against the bedrails , then pulled on the rope of nylon until his biceps began to crack . |
| 15 | Finn , grinning , and Francie lit cigarettes and tilted their chairs back on two legs . |
| 16 | If SR is to remain a relevant magazine it has to continue to attract new young readers — with outlets for feminist and particularly lesbian thought being cut back on all sides SR could well be a first line in this battle for the foreseeable future . |
| 17 | A very fair admission , McLeish thought admiringly , and made his standard speech about the need , if he might , to come back on various points as they occurred to him . |
| 18 | DESPAIRING factory owner Michael Whitehead looked back on 18 years of ‘ bloody hard work ’ last night and said : ‘ I 've got nothing for all my graft . ’ |
| 19 | Meantime , Clinton is obliged to release to the states billions in Medicare funds which the last regime held back on technical grounds . |
| 20 | He sat down on the rug in front of the Anywhithers and leaned back on straight arms , gazing up at the sky . |
| 21 | Is n't it just possible that students are missing out by being held back on full-time courses for so long ? |
| 22 | ‘ The Dept of Health is urging us to cut back on fatty foods , yet here is just that sort of food promoted as really good value . ’ |
| 23 | The challenge , a 5km run , a 30km cycle ride and then back on 2 legs for the long run home . |
| 24 | There would be prize freezes , limits on co-operatives , and controls to prevent producers from cutting back on low-priced goods in favour of more profitable lines to control inflation . |
| 25 | I look back on those emotions with wry amusement but also with a certain amount of self-respect . |
| 26 | The more successful the shops became , the more the branch managers reported back on those lines which sold well , thereby wielding a power which Laura did not at first wish to accept . |
| 27 | Looking back on those years between the two wars , and knowing Sam as I did , I am convinced that , had my parents landed in America , as intended , then he would have been in the prohibition racket , without any doubts . |
| 28 | When I look back on those days now , I think how perfectly harmless it all was by comparison with today 's pornography . |
| 29 | I often think back on those days ; they seemed so halcyon , but I do n't regret their passing , for the days now are sweeter , even if so many must be spent apart . |
| 30 | On the subject of my aunts , I must share with you something which still makes me smile when I think back on those days of yore , which were for us children — halcyon days . |