Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | This went back to the development of working-class antipathy to Thomas Malthus , who was seen as giving scientific justification to ruling-class opposition to reform , for after all the aim of his famous moral restraint was to convince the working class to postpone marriage as long as possible . |
| 32 | And these because you always wanted to be able to adapt rooms for different purposes and this folded back against the wall . |
| 33 | From their Edwardian dominance of golf and tennis , the British slipped back to the second rank . |
| 34 | The theory is that data from the vast bulk of incoming faxes is later inputted in some form back into the computer . |
| 35 | It is important , however , not to project this split back into the 1470s . |
| 36 | It is important , however , not to project this split back into the 1470s . |
| 37 | When she was most irritated by Caro 's holier-than-thou , most nearly offended by how stupid/insensitive Caro must think her , with her ‘ what a world you live in ’ , and was thinking ‘ How young , how predictable , how limited you are , ’ came the twist in the conversation , the unexpected note , that looking back along the line of the conversation , was the note Caro had been heading for all the time . |
| 38 | A FRESH wave of confidence swept through the market yesterday and boosted the FT-SE 100 Index back through the psychological 2,700 level . |
| 39 | In practice it is not always easy to stand back from the mass of information and choose a main message and a few submessages . |
| 40 | I have an appointment with Dr Dingle at 5 o'clock , so it seemed pointless going back to the Oxfordshire cottage last night . |
| 41 | He says the fibrous nature of Linseed makes it impossible to plough back into the soil . |
| 42 | A bird , a pigeon perhaps , took startled flight , its wings almost brushing her , and Sabine jumped back against the wall , her heart hammering . |
| 43 | The last EF1-11s based at Saudi arrived back at the Oxfordshire base at the weekend . |
| 44 | Erm so you 've either got you know the , the , the sort of or the old people , or you 've got the young people , and that reaches back down the age range into things like child abuse which is now , you know , very er much er on the agenda . |
| 45 | One of those walks stretches alongside the estuary , and at one point it is possible to look back to the solidity and placidity of the harbour and out , across Doom Bar , to an unpredictable sea . |
| 46 | If you feel fit to go back to the inn , Mr Hambro , I 'll be glad to drive you and Miss Rossignol round there . ’ |
| 47 | They were supposed to come back to the offices and do a three hour training |
| 48 | And that , in turn , is likely to feed back on the Government in the form of pressures from the most irresistible of all Tory constituencies , the City . |
| 49 | On present form , future generations are likely to look back on the 1992 election — with its emphasis on marginal tax rates — as at best rather quaint , or at worst a tragic irrelevance . |
| 50 | It is just as likely to draw back from the hole . |
| 51 | Most of these refer back to the content of the video but repeat viewing is not suggested . |
| 52 | The alternative is to lift the ban on supplying weapons to Bosnia 's Muslims , the main victims of the war and the ones most likely to fight back against the Serbs effectively . |
| 53 | The other three looked back at the Shuttle . |
| 54 | A new culture is also developing in the controlled zones which tries to incorporate traditional campesina culture into the themes of the liberation struggle , popular theatre and music groups reinterpret the theatre-dance , the sones and boleros still found in the rural areas of El Salvador , These date back to the Spanish colonial period but much has been lost because of the impact of commercialized Western culture . |
| 55 | These date back to the recommendations of the 1967 Nora Report in France . |
| 56 | I think I 'll be happier to get back to the traditional gold and yellows and browns on wallflowers . |
| 57 | ‘ Well , I certainly find that if I sit down and play blues for forty-five minutes or an hour , it 's hard to get back into the rock feel . |
| 58 | And then I expect you 'll be glad to get back to the Vicarage . |
| 59 | His slides were good and his descriptions fairly accurate , but I sensed we were all glad to get back to the comfort of the hotel and I to my electric fire . |
| 60 | The damp close air was heavy about them , it slowed their pace and they were glad to get back to the steading and watch Sullivan repairing the tractor . |