Example sentences of "[conj] go back [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ I would hope if sufficient parents support me they will either postpone the tests until Easter , by which time the children will have some idea of what it is like , or go back to the previous system . |
| 3 | He decided it would take less time to break the copyguards than to go back for the correct disc . |
| 4 | The part to go is the Business Systems line of Motorola Inc 68000- and Intel Corp iAPX-86-based Unix machines that are the direct successors to Texas 's old TI 980 and TI 990 minicomputer business that goes back to the early 1970s . |
| 5 | Jacobson 's rehabilitation of Cain is in a literary tradition that goes back to the Romantic poets , who identified with Cain as an outsider . |
| 6 | This central role for private property has a long history in European thought and goes back to the eighteenth-century notion of the social contract . |
| 7 | And it it it 's called the fog index but the thing that 's interesting about it is that I 've got , I 've got some interesting examples of fog indexes erm and you 'll get people like Churchill who sometimes made speeches and their fog index is quite small you 're going to use this you know example and they might have a fog , fog index that 's fine and what Anne and I are talking about with say something like the Telegraph or the Times or whatever , might have a fog index that people but this is because Churchill was very clear , very concise and going back to the original point about , or some of the original points about this , and I was mak raising these issues earlier this evening one of the great sadnesses that I have is that , is that when I first went into journalism the tabloids as we call them were incredibly well written beautifully styled , well researched and okay they might have been punchier and shorter and everything else , compared to the turning up the er the , the Times or whatever , but they were well written and you might have had , if you can put the fog index test , test on it you might have had a fog index of say six or seven compared to eleven on the Telegraph story , but it was still full of clarity like to read . |
| 8 | Both looked well pleased after hours of hard drinking and glowered at their sober master 's harsh strictures to leave their ale and go back through the pouring rain to King 's Steps and another unpleasant journey along the Thames . |
| 9 | There are certain associates , who 're not going to use a rate book , there 's associates who er , because you 're doing a two appointment sale , will always have time to come back to the office and get a computer quote and go back with the right answer . |
| 10 | You find some tape in a kitchen drawer and go back to the front hall , turning him round so that you 're between him and the door . |
| 11 | ‘ I felt there was a real danger that we would turn full circle and go back to the dark days under Revie when the manager 's indecision was final . ’ |
| 12 | and as we 're right up towards the end and now after the bank holiday we 've had lovely fine weather anyway , we got off to the main road and turned at Fibwell traffic lights onto the A twenty one and we got the to end of the dual carriageway onto the tail end of the queue as it started into the road works so I just went over the central reservation and went back down the dual carriageway to the traffic lights at |
| 13 | The fox turned at once and went back into the covert , about ten yards from the point where he broke . |
| 14 | He scrambled upright and went back into the empty flat . |
| 15 | I picked up my bag and went back into the cold street . |
| 16 | I snatched his sliding door open and went back into the arctic cold where I punched the button to summon the lift . |
| 17 | ‘ Be our guest , ’ said Noolan and went back into the social room leaving the large figure , head wreathed in cigarette smoke , seated at the top of the big committee sized table . |
| 18 | Then she changed her mind , and went back to the brimming bath . |
| 19 | The Lady Prioress , anxious about the whereabouts of the Lady Eleanor , left the refectory and went back to the darkened convent building . |
| 20 | She put him in the cubicle and went back to the nursing station to phone the physiotherapy department . |
| 21 | Simon pushed himself away from the table and went back to the hissing kettle to make his coffee . |
| 22 | I finished cleaning my mouth and hands and went back to the dead man 's chamber . |
| 23 | He shut the letter box and went back to the little crowd on the pavement . |
| 24 | But to go back to the old ways ‘ would be a colossal mistake , ’ he declared . |