Example sentences of "to go back [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main thing is I do n't want to go back into the private sector unless I absolutely have to . |
| 2 | ‘ You wo n't need to go back into the Little Vestry . |
| 3 | Though it is possible to trace a system of remedies outside the court structure back a thousand years ( Wraith and Hutchesson , 1973 ) , it is unnecessary to go back beyond the National Insurance Act 1911 for an historical background to modern tribunals . |
| 4 | She asked us to go back to the golden age of Callaghan . |
| 5 | The Freudian realistic view it seems to me , could n't allow you to draw either conclusion , you could n't , neither conclude , that things were better in the past and therefore we ou ought to go back to the golden age , nor , could you conclude that things will ever be any better in the future . |
| 6 | Soon there will be nothing left to know and I shall have to go back to the Annual Assessment . |
| 7 | ( In order to analyse this , we need to go back to the general model with . ) |
| 8 | A magnificent bookplate of 1899 with , on the male side ( left in picture ) , twelve quarterings , some of which appear to go back to the 13th century . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | We have to go back to the first quarter of 1986 to see such a low figure for construction output per person in the past decade . |
| 11 | If you do n't do it , it 'll be two possibly threeish because you 're not too sure , you 've got to go back to the second appointment and he might do it but then again he may not . |
| 12 | The privatization bill will probably have to go back to the upper house , whatever happens in the Commons . |
| 13 | I mean effectively , I always wanted to go back to the middle ages er , with , with the history books of English society . |
| 14 | If you have genuine difficulty in keeping to the diet in this book or any other diet , your best bet is to go back to the calorie-counting method , supervised by a diet club , dietitian , or doctor . |
| 15 | But to go back to the old ways ‘ would be a colossal mistake , ’ he declared . |
| 16 | Nevertheless you also feel pressure on you to go back to the old ways . |
| 17 | After the luxury of labour-saving devices it is just too tedious to go back to the old ways . |
| 18 | We need to go back to the old ways : I mean , think of it , it was in the Andes that corn was improved , that the potato was developed . |
| 19 | ‘ I would love to go back to the old house … |
| 20 | Burton said that he had promised to go back to the Old Vic for £45 a week to do Hamlet , and he was sticking to it . |
| 21 | But Tory schools minister Michael Fallon , MP for Darlington hit back : ‘ No one wants to go back to the old days of councillors running hospitals , of Nupe deciding whether or not your operations should be carried out . ’ |
| 22 | Let's go back and tell Faye to go back to the nursing agency with a more open mind . ’ |
| 23 | I do not want to go back to the foreign environment of Tbilisi , ’ he said . |
| 24 | It may be possible , while accepting the underlying general principle , to argue against its applicability to nuclear weapons : for instance , by saying that a nuclear bomb is not a chemical weapon as such , the poison gas being a mere incidental by-product ; or to go back to the fundamental prohibition of ‘ weapons that cause unnecessary suffering ’ and argue that the suffering caused by a nuclear weapon is not disproportionate to its military effectiveness . |
| 25 | It 's hardly worth drawing the cheques in certain cases and the capital programme , could n't see it actually when I looked for it first time , had to go back to the pink sheet and found the noughts , now we 're not as generous as we 'd like to be , but at least we try . |
| 26 | Next evening , bruised and with minor cuts and a cracked arm , I forced myself to go back to the three bars though , by then , very nervous . |
| 27 | When they reach an obstacle , such as the sharks , they have to go back to the previous question . |
| 28 | the reader has to go back to the previous stretch of discourse to establish what This refers to . |
| 29 | ‘ Could n't we have a second chair ? ’ ventured John Gould , inciting the first major row : ‘ We 'll have to re-think the whole thing ’ says James ‘ we 'll have to go back to the very beginning and re-block it ! ’ |
| 30 | This determines the level of the water in the cistern so it needs to go back to the same notch |