Example sentences of "have [been] [vb pp] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know without the women 's support group especially and without other support you know , we would 've been starved back to work . |
| 2 | A recruitment committee is to be formed to provide jobs for players and Greville Edwards has been invited back as a commission-only commercial manager to revive the sponsorship and hospitality income . |
| 3 | It has been cut back to 700 shops , each with just six departments . |
| 4 | More recently , bus route 220 has been cut back to Tooting , leaving 64 alone to serve Mitcham and Croydon . |
| 5 | The old control tower has been pressed back into service , but this time using mobile equipment . |
| 6 | The old , inimical Adam has been beaten back to such seedy redoubts . |
| 7 | It has been sent back with a frosty message from one of his constituents , who is unidentified . |
| 8 | The Terminator has been sent back in time from a future world dominated by machines to assassinate Sarah ( Linda Hamilton from TV 's Beauty and the Beast ) . |
| 9 | By end September 1991 , £165,000 worth of items has been credited back to Merseyside stores . |
| 10 | THE body of a 53-year-old French Catholic priest who was murdered in Brazil on Christmas Eve has been flown back to France , amid a row between the church and police over the investigation of his death . |
| 11 | THE extraordinary thing about Laura Ashley is not that it has been dragged back from the financial brink ; it is that it was ever pushed there in the first place . |
| 12 | The issue has been referred back to the MacLeod Estates , from whom a reply is awaited . |
| 13 | He commented to a local newspaper : ‘ Every penny has been ploughed back in . |
| 14 | However , it is not necessary for the user to prove conclusively that the right has been exercised back to this date . |
| 15 | Also heading for Scotland is James Leckey whose Village Homes Cosworth 4x4 has been rushed back into shape after suffering damaged suspension on last weekend 's Mayo Rally . |
| 16 | Workfare was on the committee 's agenda but the committee has now been wound up and it is thought workfare has been pushed back as an idea requiring long-term consideration rather than implementation in the near future . |
| 17 | Even the mid-week football slot has been pushed back to 11.20pm from its prime slot after News at Ten . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , ICE-T 's new LP ‘ Home Invasion ’ , the rapper 's first release since the ‘ Cop Killer ’ furore , has been pushed back from its original November 10 release date to early 1993 . |
| 19 | The restaurant has been turned back into a house — little expense spared and the quality of work by the local joiner is superb , no other word for it . |
| 20 | Now the screen has been moved back to its original position , a new loft formed and the balustrade reunited with the lower part . |
| 21 | The salmonella has been traced back to contaminated Scotch eggs . |
| 22 | The choice of 6 January for this purpose has been traced back to the gnostic Christians of Egypt , the corresponding date in the calendar used there being traditionally associated with the blessing of the Nile . |
| 23 | This tradition has been traced back to the sixth century AD . |
| 24 | AN IDEA for transmitting signals through the mains wiring has been traced back to 1897 , when Joseph Routin and C. E. L. Brown of Zurich , Switzerland , took out British Patent number 24833 . |
| 25 | Mills 's activity as a surveyor and architect has been traced back to 1638 , but his claim to architectural celebrity was his building in 1654–6 of Thorpe Hall , near Peterborough , for Oliver St John [ q.v . ] , |
| 26 | She feels a barrier has gone up between them , that her comments to the girls were perfectly justified and that the whole thing has been thrown back in her face . |
| 27 | In fishing this literally means that the catching sector has been forced back into a more primitive , earlier phase . |
| 28 | But their bid has been knocked back by the Government which claimed their independent valuation was only about half the real value . |
| 29 | It also said that its proposed flotation has been held back to late this year or early next . |
| 30 | Export factoring has been held back by gaps in the companies ' international networks . |