Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] back to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no transport on the island , and to walk in perfect quiet along the little narrow roads , discovering wayside temples and little shrines ; meet a crowd of smiling , noisy children coming out of school ; or to go back to the quayside where fish , vegetables , cheap jewellery , sunglasses , cooked food , hot snacks were all being sold in the open air ; all this was a blissful change from the hectic atmosphere of the city . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | As the last of the boys arrived I thought that maybe I could just make my way to the back of the queue , or sprint back to the changing room on one pretext or another and conveniently lose my place in the line . |
| 4 | Right , we , we , we did actually draw , or we not draw , we , we adopted a constitution during the year and the officers that are erm elected are the Chair , the Secretary and the Treasurer , erm and other , together with other such officers , yeah to determine by general meeting , erm , so it 's really only those three , er and we have sometimes had Advice Chair if there 's only been one Chairman have n't we , one Chair person erm so I think people need to say if they do n't wish to carry on the jobs they 're doing and if anybody wishes to nominate anyone in a particular post then slip at the bottom of the minutes could be filled in and either brought to meeting or sent back to the Secretary . |
| 5 | Pilots have complained that airlines force them to work long hours , new jets are being grounded or sent back to the manufacturers for modification , and the government has been attacked for a series of embarrassing lapses at major airports . |
| 6 | If society is to impose extra burdens on farmers ' costs of production in order to preserve or go back to an idyllic view of the countryside , which may never have existed anyway , it must pay for it . |
| 7 | ‘ Are you going to stay here or go back to the Villa Fiesole ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | Should they not be picked up , the paddlers made for a second rendezvous ( phase five ) further offshore or headed back to the beach to lie up for the following night , when the submarine would come to a different rendezvous . |
| 10 | However , there is an attempt to set up a message desk , where if your phone , at the moment , switchboard will put calls through to you , if you do n't answer by a certain number of rings , it will either divert to another number or come back to the switchboard . |
| 11 | I became increasingly interested in gay men 's specific ways of seeing the world — what one might call , to use a now unfashionable phrase of Raymond Williams , male homosexual structures of feeling — but to qualify for inclusion in this framework , texts had to pass an ‘ authorship test ’ ( ‘ is/was he gay ? ’ ) that harked back to the bad old days of crudely biographical criticism . |
| 12 | The last thing I wanted was to find myself slithering down the steep craggy section above the corrie , having mistakenly bypassed the Y-shaped gully that led back to the car , yet I could sense I was getting it all a bit wrong . |
| 13 | When she peered through her fingers it seemed to her that the butterfly was quite happy in its warm cage : not a flutter from its four wings as she proceeded carefully along the box-edged paths that led back to the green garden door . |
| 14 | The upper gallery was lit only by two of the many triple candle-holders in wall-scounces , one at the top of the stairs , and one down the left corridor that led back to the front of the house . |
| 15 | But a minute or two later , as they turned out of the car park and headed for the road that led back to the villa , Ronni gave way to the growing desolation within her . |
| 16 | Another speculation is that this odd behaviour ( to humans ) is a genetically controlled one that goes back to the days of the giant ground sloths . |
| 17 | Jacobson 's rehabilitation of Cain is in a literary tradition that goes back to the Romantic poets , who identified with Cain as an outsider . |
| 18 | An enmity that goes back to the battle of Manzikert in the wilds of Anatolia 922 years ago will not vanish just because something as ephemeral as communism has gone away . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Brighton & Hove has a tradition of fine hotel-keeping and hospitality that goes back to the Prince Regent 's days . |
| 21 | And at the same time , and slightly in contradiction to that , I found it increasing erm , er , perception and indication of dissatisfaction with the way in which the joint er , collaborative structures were actually working , if I may say , especially at the top level in terms of the political erm erm , so I say to you colleagues , that you are required as er , by statute to , to have in place collaborative structures , er , under a statute that goes back to the nineteen seventies , and I should also say to you that up and down the country that authorities like your own are at this stage doing what you 're doing , and that is reviewing the effectiveness of the operation of those structures , and probably coming to much the same conclusions . |
| 22 | The smaller machines in ICL 's 2900 series provide an eleven-bit link field that points back to the home bucket if the record is stored in overflow . |
| 23 | Traces of at least a dozen different cars up that wee track that leads back to the road , and of two or three heavy vehicles , all very deeply indented . |
| 24 | It has stuck to an antiquated way of operating that harks back to the days of guild power , and has refused to countenance criticism . |
| 25 | Whenever that happens , rather than going back to the track I play something else that will fit , or I leave it as an improvisational section , so to speak . |
| 26 | The front end , continually revised in the Dino range , was tidied up again , this time with pop-up headlamps , deleting the sole styling detail that dated back to the late '50s and early '60s . |
| 27 | This image of Celtic was one that dated back to the '20s when the club tried to sell the free scoring centre-forward Jimmy McGrory when he was en route to a catholic pilgrimage at Lourdes . |
| 28 | He reminded her of the ancient tradition of Christianity in that part of Ireland , one that dated back to the first century after the crucifixion , before Rome was supreme . |
| 29 | Elsewhere , like on ‘ Criminals ’ or ‘ Shaky Ground ’ , you get all the weird , unresolved chording that Michael Stipe favours , and a suitably battered vocal that reaches back to the old mountain music and forward to Dinosaur Jr , Lemonheads and Nick Cave . |
| 30 | Rather than moving back to a more conventional approach based on genuine consultation , it had opted for a system giving it greater control . |