Example sentences of "[noun] have [been] [vb pp] back from " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This softly layered bob has been teased back from the face and dressed with wax |
| 3 | The game has been put back from next Tuesday because of the Old Trafford second leg . |
| 4 | Mr Evans said that capital spending had been cut back from original plans to offset the squeeze on profitability . |
| 5 | For what would you have done this time last year if a lass had been held back from you like this ? |
| 6 | The Bushmen have been pushed back from much richer regions into the most inhospitable areas of Africa by other more technologically advanced peoples with whose enmity they still have continually to reckon . |
| 7 | Management changes and the resolution of teething problems with machinery improved matters although the target completion date has been put back from May to June 1993 . |
| 8 | He declared that he was ‘ a British subject by birth ’ , born at Rutledge Terrace , Galway , a house which his family did not inhabit until some years after William Joyce had been brought back from New York . |
| 9 | Even though the overall union target had been cut back from £4.7 million to £2 million , only four unions came in on target : NALGO with £250,000 ; the National Union of Seamen and Fire Brigades Union with £50,000 each ; the fourth was the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers , led by the vociferously right-wing Gavin Laird . |