Example sentences of "back by the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Administrative assistant — the accuracy of the checking procedure , ie the number of errors undetected at this stage that could be referred back by the personnel section or the finance department . |
| 2 | This Labour is highly reminiscent of the Babylonian myth of the Garden of Eden brought back by the Hebrews from captivity and incorporated with modifica-tions into Genesis , as the apples of the Tree of Death , with Satan in the guise of the snake ( see p. 158 below ) . |
| 3 | They felt that they were ‘ not getting on ’ with their craft work or were ‘ held back by the students with severe learning difficulties ’ . |
| 4 | I think we should go back by the paths . |
| 5 | ‘ Now we have lost the horses we may as well go back by the paths . ’ |
| 6 | Dent to Brigflatts and back by the Dales Way |
| 7 | With that settled , they were back by the outbuildings near the house when she again remembered her car and thought she had better find out where it was garaged before she again forgot to bring it up . |
| 8 | Edouard stood back by the doors , watching her , his face oddly closed . |
| 9 | At one point , they saw the sea receding from the near-by beaches ; sucked away and apparently forced back by the earthquakes , so that quantities of sea creatures were left stranded . |
| 10 | They were disinclined to be held back by the deliberations of a slow moving and ponderous Commission . |
| 11 | About fifty people attempted to gain entrance , but were held back by the police . |
| 12 | In addition , the economies of the most advanced capitalist nations would advance to a point where any further development of production would be held back by the crises of capitalism and by the desire to produce for profit rather than the general good . |
| 13 | Reasoning about diseases of the heart and blood vessels began to have a sound basis when , in the seventeenth century , William Harvey established that blood circulates from the heart , through arteries to the minute capillary vessels in every organ , and back by the veins to the heart . |
| 14 | At the Legation we were welcomed back by the servants and reverted happily to our accustomed way of life . |