Example sentences of "back to an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Always cut back to an outward facing bud so that new shoots will not grow inwards toward the centre and cross each other . |
| 2 | It was superbly performed and I found it enjoyable , although it did seem to hark back to an earlier period of American modern dance . |
| 3 | ‘ Those who return will go back to an increasingly tolerable life and they will send messages back to those who are still in the camps and that will reinforce the voluntary return . ’ |
| 4 | He even named the Government Chief Whip , Mr Tim Renton , and the party chairman , Mr Kenneth Baker , as Waddington allies who ‘ saw the danger ( but ) failed to prevent such a folly ’ which , Mr Tebbit argued , was in danger of handing back to an opportunist Labour Party the very ‘ key group of voters whose support is vital for a fourth election victory ’ — by implication Tory populists sensitive to what he called ‘ being swamped by people of different culture , history and religion ’ . |
| 5 | They hark back to an older , more religious notion , where it 's not a question of wholeness of being , but of holes . |
| 6 | Nigel got back to an empty house with no Gina . |
| 7 | The tone of the festivities was set by Göring 's public eulogy , stating : ‘ We … look back to an unbroken chain of glorious victories such as only one man could attain in a single year of his life , one who is not only a statesman and military commander , but at the same time also Leader and man of the people : our Führer … ’ |
| 8 | For example , if a first-generation hybrid between a brown and an albino mouse is crossed back to an albino , the offspring will be in the ratio 1 brown to 1 albino : if two hybrids are mated to one another , the ratio will be 3 brown to 1 albino . |
| 9 | In a deep trance , the subject is taken back to an earlier age , in order to discover the possible cause of a problem , such as a phobia , or a psychological reason for a physiological condition , which , on the surface , appears to have no organic cause . |
| 10 | There can be no going back to an age when dealing with child abuse was a grave but minor aspect of a child care worker 's caseload , exciting little public interest . |
| 11 | How often a sudden aroma can take us back to an earlier time in our lives and cause us to feel happy or sad depending on the memories aroused . |
| 12 | When there is no longer the contrast of a busy working day outside , coming back to an empty home can be less attractive , as shown in the situation described below . |
| 13 | Smith had therefore turned back to an earlier idea of Carl Gauss . |
| 14 | Many patients with severe chemical sensitivity trace their problems back to an incident of this sort . |
| 15 | Maybe , like the lemmings , the pattern dates back to an era when their goal was closer and the swim was not so long . |
| 16 | It was like going back to an old friend , familiar and almost cosy . |
| 17 | In the course of treating Mrs Tighe , Bernstein used hypnotic suggestion and then regression , intending to take her back to an earlier time in her current life . |
| 18 | Only five weeks after having a baby , Sukey 's figure was back to an enviable slimness . |
| 19 | The Faculty also calls for group losses surrendered ( within a ‘ 75% group ’ ) , which can not be relieved in the same accounting period , to be allowed to be carried back to an earlier accounting period . |
| 20 | Horns go back to an older world where surrenders were not accepted , to the dead defiant Roland rather than the brave , polite , compromise-creating Sir Gawain , whose dinner is served to ‘ nwe nakryn noyse ’ — the sound of chivalric kettledrums . |
| 21 | When I arrived at MGM , I felt like I was going back to an enormous boarding school again . |
| 22 | He thus seems to go too far initially , and then shrink back to an anodyne conclusion . |
| 23 | Initially , he attempted to browbeat the pope into judging the case in his favour or handing it back to an English ecclesiastical court . |
| 24 | The decision to abandon the Pavillon de Flore as a permanent exhibition space goes back to an official report drawn up before I.M. Pei started work on renovating the Museum and building his pyramid . |
| 25 | She had always prided herself on her resoluteness and fortitude but there was one fear she had never managed to conquer — a fear of rats which dated back to an incident when she was three years old . |
| 26 | I want to begin by going back to an argument that Aristotle put forward in the Ethics , since I think that the point at which his argument breaks down can illuminate the nature of the problem some feminist thinking has faced . |
| 27 | Teachers who have themselves learnt English as a foreign language may cast their minds back to an earlier stage in their own development ; experience of learning other languages may also provide some help . |
| 28 | The same Wordsworth , much-mocked , thought himself back to an innocent vision , told us that grass is green and water wet because he had reached beyond familiarity to some primal wonder that these things were so and not otherwise , to some mythic sense that he was giving or finding the words for the things , not merely repeating . |
| 29 | So do you think you 're inventing your own tradition , which is a perfectly time honoured and respectable thing to do , or do you think you 're harking back to an old tradition or or what ? |
| 30 | It may be useful at this point to suggest , following Halliday and Hasan , that there is a continuum of cohesive elements that may be used for referring back to an entity already mentioned in the discourse . |