Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] be [vb pp] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | In order to fund this process hospital building has been cut back . |
| 2 | just to point out to members that the promised report on the lorry management plan which is in the first preparation has been put back to the January committee meeting on the Highways Committee so that we can get full advantage from the traffic and |
| 3 | The hull and the deck mouldings are identical to those of the earlier yacht , except that the transom has been raked back from the tuck to meet an extension of the deck . |
| 4 | This softly layered bob has been teased back from the face and dressed with wax |
| 5 | But their bid has been knocked back by the Government which claimed their independent valuation was only about half the real value . |
| 6 | Since then , Demidenko has been welcomed back to the Festival regularly and now that he has settled permanently in London , it is all the easier . |
| 7 | When the laser reaches the pale stone surface the light emitted is bounced back instead of absorbed and the process ceases . |
| 8 | Sir Gregory had been given back much of his estate during Mary 's short reign , and his Catholicism , while viewed askance by some of the villagers , was in general tolerated . |
| 9 | Huge waves have been swept back into a movie star style . |
| 10 | Look out , too , for clocked cars whose odometers have been turned back . |
| 11 | The data have been weighted back to reflect the profile of the population over 30 in Britain . |
| 12 | Some of these recordings are now being used by the YCCC as evidence in the legal actions which they are taking out against the city and tannery , and some of the recordings have been played back to other community groups in similar situations but who have not developed their thinking to the extent of the YCCC . |
| 13 | The issue has been referred back to the MacLeod Estates , from whom a reply is awaited . |
| 14 | Export factoring has been held back by gaps in the companies ' international networks . |
| 15 | The trial of a man accused of stabbing another man to death in the doorway of his home has been put back until later in the week . |
| 16 | In fishing this literally means that the catching sector has been forced back into a more primitive , earlier phase . |
| 17 | Help from industry has provided a welcome boost to the restoration of R-Robert , with the bomb beam assembly restored by Dan-Air Services at Lasham , the outer wings were rebuilt by Monarch Aircraft Engineering at Luton , the port engine has been put back into original condition by British Airways Engineering at Heathrow and the cockpit canopy frame donated by the RAF Museum and reglazed by British Airways . |
| 18 | There were Iris and Michael , both just over 70 , whose marriage had been held back by his being a divorced Irish Catholic . |
| 19 | None of the design budget of the public areas had been wasted back here . |
| 20 | Nevertheless AFHQ was not informed that the Croats had been turned back until the morning of 16 May , and even then it took some time for the information to be fully taken in by all branches concerned . |
| 21 | A spokesman for the ministry confirmed that an outbreak of food poisoning in Bedworth in July had been traced back to the monastery . |
| 22 | Building contracts are sold to insiders , rubbish is disposed of on payment of massive backhanders and driving licences have been sold back to convicted drink-drivers . |
| 23 | What is most interesting , however , is that after a long famine , Latin America and its political and economic uncertainties have been thrust back on to centre stage . |
| 24 | ‘ The boat nousts have been taken back by the sea about six or eight feet , ’ she said , and stones had been piled on top of them . |
| 25 | A major advantage of this type of input was that these basic validation checks were made at input time and any errors detected were displayed back to the operator immediately , thus allowing corrections to be made quickly . |
| 26 | Business has been held back by a combination of recession and tough environmental laws but the drive is on to recover lost sales volume . |
| 27 | It also said that its proposed flotation has been held back to late this year or early next . |
| 28 | However , it is not necessary for the user to prove conclusively that the right has been exercised back to this date . |
| 29 | Burun cursed , and Rostov saw that the straw circle had been moved back and turned sideways so that it was no wider than a man 's forearm . |
| 30 | All that had been achieved was a more punitive regime , while the cause of sex reform had been set back by the whitewashing of women and the doctrine of the uncleanness of men . |