Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [vb -s] back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The base goes back to the RAFin SEptember 94. it 's not yet known what will be done with the land but many local people hope it 'll be used the upper H |
| 2 | The muscles bounce ; thus the runner gains back from the environment most of the energy he needs for his rebound . |
| 3 | Godard has revealingly said that cinema is dependent on capitalism in two senses : first in the making of the film and second that ‘ in film the money comes back in the image ’ ( MacCabe 1980 , p. 27 ) . |
| 4 | The large part of the responsibility falls back on the parents — or , in some cases , on grandparents . |
| 5 | The building dates back to the early 1800s and although it was partly rebuilt in the early 1900s it still resembles the original design . |
| 6 | The story goes back to the major earthquake , magnitude 7 on the Richter scale , which rocked Greece in February 1981 . |
| 7 | The origin of the synagogue goes back to the Babylonian period . |
| 8 | From slick dialogue about eating Christians , the play moves back to the world of the cinema . |
| 9 | The tube can be lowered into the tank and once a syphon has been made , the tube picks up gravel and agitates it and once you apply your thumb to the end of the hose , the gravel falls back to the bottom , leaving you with clean substrate and a bucketful of dirty water . |
| 10 | The history of the perehera goes back to the second century AD , when King Gajabuha won a great victory against his foes in southern India , the Tamils , chasing them back across the narrow strait into their homeland . |
| 11 | When the lid opens these contacts are lost and the loop folds back onto the core of the protein . |
| 12 | ( Koch 1985a , p. 149 ) Koch and others have stressed that because this conception of the gaze goes back to the Freudian idea of an originary bisexuality it therefore affords a better explanation of women 's actual viewing behaviour , e.g. their multiple identifications with either gender . |
| 13 | The man aargh ! and the man jumps out of the aeroplane gets back onto the train . |
| 14 | Where a listed company promotes an on-market " buy-in " of its shares , where the shareholders usually sell to an intermediary and the intermediary sells back to the company , the capital gains tax rules , rather than the ACT/distribution regime , will also apply as far as the vendor shareholders are concerned . |
| 15 | And what they do , is they give them a couple of choices of bo , you know , hip joints to go for and the guy decides , the surgeon decides , does his job and then the kit goes back to the manufacturer again and then when the , another hospital orders it they make up a , another kit . |
| 16 | In principle , this accounting is no different from commercial accounting except that the depreciation charges are being made into cash flows from each hospital to the Regional Health Authorities , who then reallocate the cash flows back to the District Health Authorities and the GPs , who in turn buy services from the hospitals . |
| 17 | The farm sets a good example in other ways too … branches pruned from the trees are shredded so the goodness goes back into the soil . |
| 18 | God 's claim to the firstborn goes back to the night of the Passover ( Exodus 12 ) . |
| 19 | When it gets to the last line the beam shoots back to the top . |
| 20 | You can lie and lie beautifully , but sooner or later the truth comes back like a wave and sweeps everything before it . |
| 21 | The psalm refers back to the dreadful moment when the children of Israel , set free from Egypt , quarrelled with Moses about the lack of water , saying : ‘ Is the Lord among us or not ? ’ |
| 22 | The whole area , a thicker , stronger basalt pavement , is funnel-shaped and the water pours back into the central hole that has been emptied to a depth of three or more metres . |
| 23 | Each time one hip thrusts forwards , the other draws back by an equal amount and is thus cocked for the next punch . |
| 24 | ( The name dates back to the days when all home electronics was a horrid brown colour — now it is an almost nasty black ) . |
| 25 | ‘ Just make sure the wallet goes back into the pocket , Vi , or there 'll be hell to pay . |
| 26 | The video looks back on the occupation of Latin America by Europeans and draws attention to the present situation of the millions of people throughout the continent who are suffering poverty and disease . |
| 27 | In the end there were certain logistical difficulties in getting all the petition forms back from the outlying islands in time for Helen Martini 's departure for London on Thursday 14 March . |
| 28 | The shopkeeper pays tax on his or her sales of all taxable goods , minus the tax paid by those who sold him or her the goods wholesale , and so the chain goes back to the producer . |
| 29 | precisely Mr Chairman if I could answer that the , the , the once the inspector comes back to the Fire Service and reports again and he is due back in June , we will then look at the matters he raises at that time and he will look at the progress report er what , what has happened since his last inspection and then we will have the opportunity to look at what the Inspector has , has to say after his visits , not very far away er , their Chief Officer will go on with this programme |
| 30 | A list of past rectors of the parish goes back to the year 1274 . |