Example sentences of "[noun] back onto " in BNC.
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| 1 | A by pass for Newhnam seems unlikely , residents are hoping that time saved by the new second crossing might entice drivers back onto the motorway . |
| 2 | The simplest method is to switch off the lights and to lighten the shadow areas by reflecting some of the daylight back onto the subject . |
| 3 | He lifted the oars and began to pull at them again , digging heavily into the water to his right , bringing the boat back onto a straight course . |
| 4 | Bounce light is aimed upwards at the walls and ceiling for reflection back onto the subject below . |
| 5 | Agnes did not make the mistake now of asking her customer how much he intended to spend on the acid drops ; she reached up and took down the jar and , tilting it , tipped some acid drops into the scale ; then , putting the glass lid back onto the jar , she returned the whole to the shelf before once again blowing into a small paper bag and depositing the sweets inside . |
| 6 | So last year Philips Analytical decided to refocus its attention back onto its existing strengths and expertise and sold its Cambridge-based laboratory instrument business , Unicam , to the US company ATI in April . |
| 7 | Colchester played up the hill in the first half and began solidly , their pack pushing Walden back onto the defensive . |
| 8 | Now as he comes in front of that lorry back onto the carriageway , if the one that was over taking suddenly decides to pull back in his mate having flashed him , the value of a nearside mirror ? |
| 9 | The Home Secretary Michael Howard has announced measures to cut down on the amount of police paperwork and put more officers back onto the streets . |
| 10 | " There 's trouble brewing at home , " he said breathlessly , pushing his wire-frame glasses back onto his face . |
| 11 | In America corporate bosses and Wall Street are in rare agreement about the need to get retail investors back onto the shareholding registers . |
| 12 | Do the books feel very hard because I have a tendency to pull my head back onto them with excessive and habitual tension in the muscles of the neck ? |
| 13 | Do not drop your head back onto the floor at all . |
| 14 | Yeah , I just want to get the emphasis back onto that one first , and the products , we accepted it and we 've got to live with it at some point in time , but the longer I can put that off , the better . |
| 15 | He stuffs his pistol into the top of his trousers , tilts one of the two heavies back onto the rear chairlegs and drags him out the door , clumping down the steps to the gloom outside . |
| 16 | Mildred did her best to arrange the bucket hanging from the back , but it was obviously going to spill the minute they took off , she put the bucket back onto the window-sill , climbed onto the broom first , and then settled the bucket in her lap . |
| 17 | It had looked as if Robert Palmer was getting Digital Equipment Corp back onto an even keel , but now comes cause for great concern . |
| 18 | It had looked as if Robert Palmer was getting Digital Equipment Corp back onto an even keel , but now comes cause for great concern : too many companies decide that if the product is having a tough time in the market , the answer is to change the packaging , and DEC is tarting up its famous lower-case ‘ digital ’ logo , which has stood the company in excellent stead since 1957 ; the updated logo features ‘ a more contemporary typeface and slight modifications to the spacing of the design 's blocks ’ , and the white letters now appear on a burgundy background instead of the traditional blue — and we hope the company gets some very tough questioning at the annual meeting over the cost . |
| 19 | The ship settled down to a monotonous routine until the cries of the look-outs brought Selkirk and the captain back onto the deck . |
| 20 | Place the text block back onto the page and you will discover that it has been converted into a graphic which can be stretched and distorted as much as you want . |
| 21 | So it might The inner relief road , whichever alignment if I read you right , would actually push more traffic back onto the A fifty nine in Knaresborough . |
| 22 | To try out the 238 Syncaset I recorded a track using a drum machine on tracks 1–2 , rhythm guitar doubled onto tracks 3 and 4 ( then mixed and bounced onto track 8 , then bounced again through a compressor/noise gate back onto track 3 ) , bass guitar onto track 4 , harmony lead guitars onto tracks 5 and 6 ( again bounced onto track 8 and mixed back to track five with delay ) , lead vocal on track 6 , first vocal harmony detuned using the pitch control on track 7 and second harmony in normal pitch on track 8 . |
| 23 | He also put some of the onus for countering terrorism back onto the public . |
| 24 | Whatever , you ca n't apply the urban type of capital back onto the land , so it 's okay to say this would work if capital was completely and perfectly mobile , but it is n't so , you do n't get that and you do n't get balanced growth of that . |
| 25 | It rolled into a hollow and it took me half an hour to get it one yard back onto the road . |
| 26 | The cowboy pushed his stetson back onto the crown of his head . |
| 27 | The mid- and late nineteenth century saw a savage counter-attack on this system , with a reduction of pensions to a mere third of the value of the average working man 's wage , and a concerted attempt to shift more of the burden back onto the family . |
| 28 | The Australian 's withdrawal from a three year contract immediately shifted a considerable burden back onto Jarvis , but the former England seamer is not lacking in confidence about his prospects . |
| 29 | Does your garden back onto an alley or road ? |
| 30 | The bank has no plans to put the EDI application back onto the X400 network , because it uses a program developed by Brussels-based systems integrator Acse SA , which collects the information from the X25 mailbox , stores it on magnetic disk , checks it for the Binary Condensed Algorithm code number , and checks it against internal and external data . |