Example sentences of "are [verb] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To achieve this it will be essential to create a culture where services are given back to the people and delivered with the attitude that the ‘ customer is sovereign ’ . |
| 2 | Mrs Leinen fears if they are flown back to the United States she 'll lose custody forever . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , the mummies of the pharaohs , removed from display by President Sadat in 1970 , are to go back on show in the Cairo museum in May . |
| 4 | If Mr Newton is right , perhaps Mr Lamont will one day be able to please the traditionalists … by announcing that the railways are to go back to the good old steam age . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , unless we are to fall back on the unsatisfactory practice of listing verbs which do support the construction and those which do not , some other factor must be waiting to be discovered , which will help to explain why ( 56 ) and ( 67 ) seem outright ungrammatical , and yet we can have either of ( 68 ) and ( 69 ) : ( 68 ) Tania left despondently ( 69 ) Tania left despondent To conclude , we may point out that there will clearly be a close connexion , under certain choices of lexical items , between the surface construction ( 44 ) and ordinary predicative position . |
| 6 | Ethical debates about the quality of life and the limits to medical intervention are certain to become more pressing as frontiers are rolled back on what is technically possible . |
| 7 | EIGHT Yorkshire miners , trapped for 15 hours behind thousands of tons of rock , coal and twisted steel half a mile underground , are expected back at work today after what British Coal described as ‘ a stunningly successful ’ rescue operation . |
| 8 | are sucked back by the wet |
| 9 | The residuals are smoothed using the same recipe as before , and the results are added back to the results of the first smooth ; this is illustrated in exercise 9.1 . |
| 10 | But its annual surpluses ( $56 billion in fiscal 1989 ) are added back for the purposes of the Gramm-Rudman deficit-cutting law . |
| 11 | These weeks are looked back on affectionately by pupils as they remember the camaraderie they have developed with Staff , parent and senior pupils . |
| 12 | Then in winter the wicker table and chairs are moved back into the house , to be replaced by an old formica kitchen table . |
| 13 | They will also fit the 6 cylinder 109 if the bell housing is changed and the engine mounts are moved back on the chassis . |
| 14 | Sevens ‘ at risk ’ if Five Nations matches are moved back to April |
| 15 | As fish are sinking back through the surface , other fish will be appearing through it , so that there is constant activity . |
| 16 | Strategically located road blocks are used to enforce systematic searches of traffic , and vehicle registration numbers are fed back to central control for checking . |
| 17 | Perhaps the most extraordinary moment in the story is when the Butterfly appears and ali the butterflies in the world , in a great swarm , are absorbed back into his essence . |
| 18 | Just as in reverse discourse the categories of subordination are turned back upon the regimes of truth which disqualify , so this ‘ other ’ sensibility is in part affirmed as an inversion and absence of sensibility 's traditional criteria . |
| 19 | Some of those contributions are channelled back to the Church Commissioners for distribution . |
| 20 | For the same reason you should place any edge stitches that are selected back to B position — the selector level will select the pattern of needles in working position , regardless of where they fall on the needlebed . |
| 21 | When the project is completed , the group members are transferred back to the basic structure , or they are given operating responsibility for the new product in a new unit . |
| 22 | In some cases , care must be taken not to put ideas into a respondent 's head early in an interview lest these are reflected back at a later point . |
| 23 | The sound waves bounce off objects in their path and are reflected back to the dolphin where they are channelled through oil-filled sinuses in the lower jaw to the inner ear . |
| 24 | These then go out into the environment , are reflected back in a multitude of different ways according to the objects encountered , are picked up by the most amazingly refined hearing organs , matched against an inner mind structure capable of interpreting this data as a full and complete three-dimensional world and used as a major sensory means of perceiving their watery or aerial world . |
| 25 | But meanwhile many Japanese eyes are turning back to the root cause : policy co-ordination and America . |
| 26 | The locals are turning back to wildlife and natural resources to survive . |
| 27 | It tells us that the soldiers are thinking back to before the war , to the sun as if it were something in the distant past which they took for granted but has now become their last hope and so they are turning back to nature to put right a problem they caused . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Our ferry port which opened in nineteen seventy six is now the second largest ferry port on the south coast and it is city-owned yielding profit they are reinvested back into our city . |
| 30 | Note that only some of the additional text rows created by lexicographic activity in the Working-Set are copied back to the Main Database . |