Example sentences of "back by [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was to be a review for them , when any man who would like to go back to France would be sent back by a route through Marseilles , and he would provide for any man who wished to serve with his newly formed force , the Free French . |
| 2 | I 'm called back by a member of the Guardia Nacional . |
| 3 | An illuminating example of this kind of recognition on the part of teachers is provided by a lengthy continuation sheet clipped to one of the returned questionnaires and sent back by a member of one of the departments . |
| 4 | Evenwood were pegged back by a Darren Rawlston goal at home to Billingham Town after Sean Monaghan had put them ahead . |
| 5 | In the United States a national botanical garden was founded to exploit the seeds and plants brought back by a Pacific exploration expedition under Charles Wilkes in the years 1838–42 . |
| 6 | One unguarded remark by Byrkin , one remark that had been carried back by a man with innocence on his face to those who would judge Byrkin . |
| 7 | By refusing office , Labour would lose all the parliamentary advantages it had gained by becoming the official Opposition in 1922 ; its position in the country might be put back by a decade . |
| 8 | And the silk scarf with it in a faded paisley design looked like something brought back by a missionary aunt from India about thirty years ago . |
| 9 | And Nurse Cohen above him , her head snapped back by a blow and the blood splintering from it . |
| 10 | The problem is that more and more heat is being kept back by a blanket of gases surrounding the Earth ( including Carbon Dioxide and CFCs ) and as a result temperatures around the world are gradually increasing . |
| 11 | After five minutes patiently waiting I noticed that he had been distracted on his way back by a friend behind the counter . |
| 12 | This onslaught was driven back by a police baton charge in the course of which four youths were slightly hurt . |
| 13 | Things that had been yoked , harnessed , held down and held back by a power that was dissolving . |
| 14 | ‘ No regular soldier I ever knew wore cross bandoleers , or had long hair held back by a headband . |
| 15 | Waved back by a Kalashnikov-wielding , spotty boy-soldier , I was subject to a ten-minute harangue by two bad-tempered border guards . |
| 16 | He advanced again , but was driven back by a hail of blows . |
| 17 | But they were driven back by a hail of huge roof slates . |
| 18 | Other less clear-cut chances were also smashed back by a Springbok side which continues to make the most of their discipline despite having less ball and creating fewer chances than the opposition . |
| 19 | Business has been held back by a combination of recession and tough environmental laws but the drive is on to recover lost sales volume . |
| 20 | And it was as if Boy was now suddenly the drowning one , and O was the lifeguard ; O slapped him twice around the face , pulled his head back by a handful of hair and placed his mouth over Boy 's before he had time to speak , and kissed him right there in the doorway of The Bar . |
| 21 | The fabrics side was held back by a decline in demand for batiks in West Africa . |
| 22 | When the facts became known through contact established with the Curator of the New Mills Heritage Centre , some action was taken and all Mackie Memorial Library books that could be found in local bookshops were bought back by the Derbyshire authorities . |
| 23 | Will the right hon. Gentleman further explain to my constituent why people who reach that age end up in the appalling position of having all their age allowances clawed back by the Government ? |
| 24 | But their bid has been knocked back by the Government which claimed their independent valuation was only about half the real value . |
| 25 | He had briefly considered going out fighting anyway , but had been held back by the thought that he should deal with those immediately responsible for his predicament . |
| 26 | ‘ The boat nousts have been taken back by the sea about six or eight feet , ’ she said , and stones had been piled on top of them . |
| 27 | The Great Lesson for the Irish tourists was that everything loose was run back by the New Zealand teams . |
| 28 | Too often , however , the academic progress of the gifted child is held back by the way classrooms and teaching are organised . |
| 29 | Then the handful of riders wheeled their mounts in wild haste , and rode back by the way they had come , and after them in headlong pursuit streamed Reginald de Grey and his knights and men-at-arms . |
| 30 | Do you want your law book back by the way ? |