Example sentences of "[noun] [is] [vb pp] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If all is satisfactory the credit card is handed back to the customer with a copy of the sales voucher and a receipted bill . |
| 2 | On short finals full flap is lowered , the speed is brought back to 75 kts and the propeller levers are moved into fully fine in case there is a need to go around for any reason . |
| 3 | As body weight is transferred back to the centre of the machine , lifting the bike still further , the rider heaves himself forward over the front . |
| 4 | But Zoff knows the knives could be out if Gazza is rushed back into action too quickly . |
| 5 | One lucky spin-off from the system is that it reproduces intelligible sound at normal pitch , when the tape is played back at twice the intended speed . |
| 6 | If he takes an ( optical ) photograph of the wall he will have a snap of featureless plaster , as the light is reflected back from the surface and not from inside the structure . |
| 7 | Next the first capacitor is connected back to the input so that a fresh sample voltage is taken . |
| 8 | Come August , when the action is beamed back from Barcelona , they might just recognise that man who works down at the local track . |
| 9 | Money from the rent of the gymnasium is put back into the company to pay for repairs , contract window-cleaning and other matters of mutual concern . |
| 10 | But gradually the blood is drawn back into the body and the veins harden into rigid struts that will give the wing its strength . |
| 11 | Larger gravel is discharged back into the river . |
| 12 | In April each of the canes seen protruding starkly from the ground in February is cut back to the second bud and stakes are planted for their support . |
| 13 | Radiation emitted by the electron is transformed back to the laboratory frame , and is concentrated in to a narrow cone around the forward direction ( c ) , generating a ( Doppler ) frequency upshift ( γ ) . |
| 14 | In consequence , the Committee is forced back upon the classical model , despite the consistent tendency elsewhere in its pages to accord to English an educational validity independent from and at least equal to classics . |
| 15 | It is only necessary to refer to the second of those cases which were decisions of this court , because in the judgments in the second of those cases , reference is made back to Brown v. Draper . |
| 16 | Whenever liquids or greases are used during maintenance , all excess spillages must be cleared up as quickly as possible and before the equipment is put back into operation . |
| 17 | Too often , however , the academic progress of the gifted child is held back by the way classrooms and teaching are organised . |
| 18 | supervision and they 're used until the head of the femur right , the head of the femur is fixed back into the socket joint and the muscles and ligaments have tightened up so that they hold the bone in place and treatment can go on until they 're about a year the consequences of not treating this condition are quite severe , the child will grow up with a very odd gait . |
| 19 | In this way , the show of emotions is held back by conditioning . |
| 20 | Within this tradition , the argument has been that Simmel 's The Philosophy of Money provides an important critique of alienation , which , unfortunately , the author perceived as a condition of modernity itself instead of a specific attribute of capitalism ; but , once his philosophy is directed back to its proper object , there is much to be learnt from his examples . |
| 21 | The MGFV is paid back to Ford Credit , but if you 've kept the car in good nick and it fetches more than the MGFV then you keep any profit . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | My attention is drawn back to the unpleasant here and now by a banging gavel : thunder shakes the firmament . |
| 24 | Once a site is put back into production , it may not be immediately obvious that the archaeological sites have been destroyed . |
| 25 | The tax is claimed back from the Tax Office by either the college or the Association , or both . |
| 26 | Assessment is likely to have educational value , however , only if the outcome is fed back to the senior house officer . |
| 27 | Malcolm Dalkin of LV Motors , who produce the Aerogen wind generator range , maintains that if a tiny trickle charge is put back into a yacht 's batteries it will both maintain their performance and could increase their lifespan by two or three years . |
| 28 | His own face and Billie 's stared back at him . |
| 29 | A price is settled and the fish is pushed back down the stairs , flumpity , flump , bump . |
| 30 | I hate angling just because the fish does n't scream it does n't mean the hook did n't hurt when it was inserted and then taken out when the fish is thrown back into the water because it is n't big enough . |