Example sentences of "not [adv] [verb] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain , only to see them reimposed at a European level , with a European superstate exercising a new dominance from Brussels . |
| 2 | However , the exhibition does not necessarily refer back to the previous event , and there is hardly ever a sense of continuing from where the previous exhibition left off . |
| 3 | I mean , it 's not enough to fight back really , twelve . ’ |
| 4 | DEFENDING champions Ajax Amsterdam were knocked out of the UEFA Cup last night when a 1–0 home victory was not enough to claw back a 4–2 first leg deficit to French club Auxerre in the quarter-finals . |
| 5 | ‘ The policy of peaceful coexistence … does not only hold back the revolutionary struggle , but promotes its upsurge … the might of the Soviet Union serves as a decisive obstacle in the way of imperialist plans for unleashing a new world war . ’ |
| 6 | Both romantic lyricism and boogification not only date back to the beginnings of Elvis 's career but also continue to be used throughout its development . |
| 7 | So their credit policies were not generally held back by balance of payments considerations . |
| 8 | It was : ‘ If you want my will to be done , it requires you to actually do something ( which takes time and effort ) not just to sit back and expect it to happen ’ . |
| 9 | Whereas I mean , , if you sort of give the criticism first and say the wrong area is that , and then finish it off with the praise , they know where they stand , and when you come up to them and say you 've done a superb job , they 're not just sitting back , thinking oh yes , what 's coming next . |
| 10 | " Do not ever come back here , " she said in the hall . |
| 11 | If young children , dependent on an adult for basic needs , learnt that the adult does not always come back , then this has far-reaching consequences for them in their own adult experience . |
| 12 | The more respectable leaders of the Catholic community could not possibly sit back and leave things to the radicals of the DHAC . |
| 13 | Such restraining views are typical of many that are fully justified by the emphasis upon process studies that characterized the 1960s and 1970s and led to smaller investment of resources in historical studies and to the fear that process studies will not profitably link back with chronological ones — in fact there are many indications that such links are happening again including the way in which physical geographers who have been mainly concerned with processes and modelling are moving towards evolution . |
| 14 | What is clear , though , is that we can not really go back to ‘ 1970s feminism ’ , and that inasmuch as we do work with the social and political categories which are the valuable heritage of that period we now do so with a proper awareness of their construction and provisionality . |
| 15 | But a king could not simply sit back and wait for people to come to him . |
| 16 | As a practical measure , keep a full record of all jobs that you apply for and the responses that you receive to show that you have not simply sat back and waited for the money to roll in . |
| 17 | The Norton Lectures do not simply look back sadly . |
| 18 | Good morning David , I 'm enclosing three pages of a fax which I have just received from Teagasc capital T E A G A S C which is self explanatory stop , I hope you can make it all out , comma , if not please come back to me , full stop , paragraph , it would be a help if you could get your shipping agents to provide us with the rates they would have charged paragraph , many thanks and best regards , Sam . |
| 19 | Owen did not even go back to his office . |
| 20 | The cost saving in the preventative work , er , fall falls later on in the system , and that might not even accrue back to local government , and that 's the problem and I think if there was some specific erm , government grants that enabled local authorities to really get to grips with the preventative elements and could should that , that reduced overall government spending on the other end , on the impact end , I mean , I think we would be , we would be sort of making very much headway , but there does n't seem to be that specific initiative at this particular stage . |
| 21 | Utterly out of control now , these could not even fire back , for their port-side cannon could not be brought to bear . |
| 22 | She did not immediately come back with an answer , but looked at him steadily for some seconds before she said , ‘ That 's why you think you 've got me here for good , is n't it , Father ? |
| 23 | The infuriated Milan Cardinal told the city governor that both the Chief of Police and the governor would be excommunicated if Landriani was not immediately released back to the convent . |
| 24 | Every time I have to strike my heart is in my mouth , and although I do not consciously hold back when I strike , I wonder if I am doing so without being aware of it . |
| 25 | ‘ It was just a bit of crack , but curiously enough it gave me my first taste of playing in public , something I had not yet done back home . ’ |
| 26 | As I have not yet heard back from you since then , I wonder if you could confirm that you are still interested in receiving a copy of the tape ? |
| 27 | But that is another story which we can not yet look back on . |
| 28 | God has not yet come back to buy up his possessions ( the Christians ) , for whom he has paid the down-payment of the Spirit ( Eph. 1:14 ) ; and it is in the context of our future inheritance beyond death that Paul speaks of the Spirit as our ‘ earnest ’ in 2 Corinthians 5:5 . |
| 29 | The Lady Jinneth went out riding alone this afternoon , and she has not yet come back . |
| 30 | He can not afterwards go back on it . |