Example sentences of "[verb] be [vb pp] back from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The upfilling of section sof beach on the south side of the old fly ash block , which was agreed by the Director at the request of ELDC Councillors , has been held back from the Contractor . |
| 3 | The hull and the deck mouldings are identical to those of the earlier yacht , except that the transom has been raked back from the tuck to meet an extension of the deck . |
| 4 | This softly layered bob has been teased back from the face and dressed with wax |
| 5 | The taste for sweet and highly spiced food , which made little use of the plants which grew easily in our temperate Northern climate , may well have been brought back from the Holy Land by returning Crusaders . |
| 6 | The prosecution could not prove that he had encashed the giros because they are destroyed by the DSS twelve months after they have been received back from the clearing banks . |
| 7 | ‘ What has happened is that we have been clawed back from the disastrous level of whitefish we started at to a position in line with the top end of scientific advice . ’ |
| 8 | They are , indeed , reported by people who have been brought back from the edge of death — though mundane scientists tend to attribute them to the effects of oxygen starvation on a failing brain . |