Example sentences of "[vb pp] back to [art] [noun] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Interactionists made much of how such variations could lead to a ‘ deviancy amplification spiral ’ : if the public ( informed by the media of rises in the criminal statistics ) believes crime to be on the increase and more of a problem they may be more sensitive to it , report more to the police who will then record more and therefore produce a further rise in recorded crime , which is then fed back to the public by the media , and so on ( see Wilkins , 1964 ; and Young , 1971 ) . |
| 2 | German embassy officials in Moscow said the unframed pictures , contained in a battered brown portfolio , had been handed back to the embassy by a former Red Army officer who insisted on remaining anonymous . |
| 3 | A change in Eisenhower 's thinking on the USSR can perhaps be traced back to the visit by Churchill and Eden at the end of June 1954 . |
| 4 | The origin of Islamic interest in science can be traced back to the closure by Justinian of the Neoplatonic Academy at Athens in 529 . |
| 5 | Or maybe a process of natural selection had winnowed out the overworked and discontented , the theoretical and jaded and left the few who were propelled back to the school by the same affection , curiosity and remembered enthusiasm that had drawn us . |
| 6 | She was brought back to the moment by Louise . |
| 7 | The evacuees included 3,000 who had returned to their homes on Monday but had been driven back to the centres by the volcano 's sulphurous stench . |
| 8 | She did n't want to be escorted back to the apartment by him . |
| 9 | This claim was based on the perception that ( i ) no police had been deployed to counter the attack , despite warnings that it was expected ; ( ii ) police had dispersed residents from barricades which they had erected to protect themselves ; and ( ii ) several of the attackers had arrived in police armoured vehicles and had later been escorted back to the hostel by police . |
| 10 | He had been escorted back to the Vicarage by a plainclothes officer , not the one who had been working most closely with Commander Dalgliesh , but an older man , broad-shouldered , stolid , reassuringly calm , who had spoken to him in a soft country accent which he could n't recognize but was most certainly not local . |
| 11 | All too often , banks are even repaid twice : once in interest , and again with loans smuggled out of poor countries then re-cycled back to the North by corrupt Third World elites anxious to secure personal fortunes . |
| 12 | At this signal the master tape is run up to speed , an okay then being passed back to the Director by the Technical Manager . |
| 13 | Despite the almost empty room , Isabel had been taken back to the gallery by a circuitous route through little-known passages deep inside the castle walls . |