Example sentences of "back [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Their names will be in Japanese history books if they can persuade the Soviet leader to hand back the islands .
2 It is at least disconcerting and sometimes painful to have the memories flooding back to spoil the enjoyment of success , and what could be more effective in bringing back the memories than the sight of an unknown stranger receiving an honorary degree apparently for no good reason .
3 And it brought back the memories of bouquets and the first Miss World competition she won way back in 1911 .
4 In 50 years time when they celebrate the 100th anniversary , they 'll have an aid , a time capsule containing photographs and documents about the life of today 's garrison , buried will bring back the memories .
5 Yuletide always brought back the memories of little Matthew , taken by the plague , but not before the mite had shown Sir John the wonder with which every child greeted Christmas .
6 The idea was to try to bring back the spirit of entrepreneurship that I thought people in these neighbourhoods would be inclined towards if the right environment were established . ’
7 At the moment of death Jesus hands back the Spirit to God ( Luke 23:46 ) .
8 The child becomes frightened and holds back the faeces making the constipation worse ( Levine and Bakow 1976 ) .
9 Having bought back the service then erm that is what I referred to earlier as reckonable service .
10 Er I think my wife would like to take advantage of er buying back the service of the earliest before nineteen seventy three .
11 This was augmented by Hastings 's conversion and two penalties , and only now , with more than a quarter of the match gone , did France pull themselves together and begin to pull back the Lions ' lead .
12 There was a long pause as we all tried to hold back the giggles .
13 Ferranti carried on with the contracts because it did not want to give the purported customers an excuse not to pay back the credit .
14 Nor was it always clear on what basis the Principal Education Officer and Chief Inspector on occasions referred back the proposals of the project team .
15 Mark was in a jogging phase , trying to hold back the river of age , puffing around in his new Nike Air .
16 2 Push down the clutch plate ( a ) and draw back the piston rod ( b )
17 6 To remove the cartridge , hold the gun vertical , depress the clutch plate ( a ) and pull back the piston rod until it clears the end of the cartridge
18 It was a period of penury such that James and his team spent one night in Pau furtively thieving back the petrol that had been stolen from their car and eventually hitchhiking back home via Le Havre , with no food on the way — and it brought out in James qualities of tenacity that he had n't really suspected in himself .
19 As I feel so well now I have been able to sort out the problems with my husband and we now feel that we have got back the relationship we got married to share .
20 This can be used to pay back the capital you borrow now .
21 This is generally for a set sum , over an agreed period , during which you sill pay back the capital and the interest : the rate of interest is fixed at the time you take out the loan , so your monthly repayments never change .
22 ‘ What you put into the business , ’ Daisy said , ‘ you should have treated it as a loan and let me pay you back the capital .
23 The criterion is the number of years before the pre-tax cash receipts from the project pay back the capital invested .
24 To write a feature story on the Inaugural First Flight it was arranged for me to join the westbound plane at Moose Jaw and telegraph back the story from Calgary .
25 EDUCATION Secretary John Patten 's relentless attempt to turn back the school clocks continues this week with the release of the proposed new children 's reading list .
26 I want to go back the year , nineteen hundred , and let's hear the causes of death , because when many infectives caused by viruses and the bacteria , the life expectancy for a male was fifty , and for a women was fifty four .
27 As I turned away and headed back the way I had come I passed two dead cows lying on the grass , large shrapnel wounds on their bodies .
28 I start going back the way I came .
29 Much of its stealth comes from a design that minimises the chance of radar waves bouncing back the way they came .
30 Not looking back the way they had come , because she could not bear to watch Joe .
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