Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [verb] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was therefore with great irritation that I noticed a day or two later that they had all been moved back to the ‘ General Interest ’ section . |
| 2 | A change in Eisenhower 's thinking on the USSR can perhaps be traced back to the visit by Churchill and Eden at the end of June 1954 . |
| 3 | It meant he had finally been accepted back into the Royal fold after being stripped of his OBE when he was jailed for tax evasion . |
| 4 | Emphasis is put on the fact that learned skills such as shorthand are never forgotten and can soon be brought back to the standard required . |
| 5 | Twenty-three-year-old Jill Yate took the opportunity of telling her boss that , although she had had a wonderful year travelling around Europe , she was beginning to feel homesick and would soon be going back to the United States . |
| 6 | The ultimate origin of our seven-day week and the restrictions for long imposed on Sunday activities can thus be traced back to the Babylonians . |
| 7 | The lowering of interest rates last year provided extra spending power for the family but , as Mr Ingram , 34 , pointed out , that will probably now just be kept back for the rainy days to come in 1994 . |
| 8 | The simple translation is , first , that the 750m people in the countryside , including 90m who work in what amount to private factories , can not be sent back to the commune , however much China 's old-guard ideologues might wish . |
| 9 | It could not be sent back to the original commission which was dominated by Lateran supporters , so a neatly balanced new one had to be constituted with Ottaviani and Bea as joint chairmen . |
| 10 | This is a confidential document and considerable care is taken to ensure that it can not be related back to the company in question , although there is always an element of trade off between absolute confidentiality and achieving the desired results . |
| 11 | 3 ) The ball must not be passed back to the goalkeeper from outside the penalty area . |
| 12 | But I 've come to accept that it 's far more sensitive and vulnerable than my other possessions and it can not be hauled back to the manufacturers at the first sign of malfunction . |
| 13 | In the full light of 5 Corps " insistence that the Cossacks could not be handed back without the use of force , the conference ruled that nevertheless the Cossacks should be handed back , without qualification . |
| 14 | They have to reveal all , and if something goes wrong how are they to know that all that information will not be handed back to the secret police from whom they are trying to escape by seeking asylum ? |
| 15 | When there is this kind of historical development of a signal system it is important that it should not be read back in the exclusive terms of later signals . |
| 16 | Workers will not be allowed back on the out-of-service Vulcan II well in Conoco 's Vulcan field until the area is completely clear of gas . |
| 17 | At Key Stage 2 , with older pupils , the enquiry can easily be pushed back to the Victorian Age , when pupils are now faced with the " problem " that all the people who lived at that time are now dead . |
| 18 | To overcome the problem of missing and lost keys and keys not being handed back by the guest on departure and to combat the problem of security by which unauthorised persons obtain keys to rooms , many hotels are going to the expense of installing keyless locks on their rooms . |
| 19 | ‘ My priority had always been to get back into the Irish side , and I was never prepared to look any further than that . |
| 20 | Delays before trial can therefore affect the result , for a defendant who is committed to hospital and recovers there would usually be released back into the community fairly swiftly . |
| 21 | The persistent failures can always be traced back to the original false premise that all existence is controlled by an undefined and unassailable ‘ god ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ Why do n't you tell me what to do ? ’ , and similar questions , should always be passed back to the counsellee . |
| 23 | When a task has been accomplished , a report on this fact must at once be fed back into the system . |
| 24 | This claim was based on the perception that ( i ) no police had been deployed to counter the attack , despite warnings that it was expected ; ( ii ) police had dispersed residents from barricades which they had erected to protect themselves ; and ( ii ) several of the attackers had arrived in police armoured vehicles and had later been escorted back to the hostel by police . |
| 25 | Command of the main army was entrusted for the moment to a veteran Huguenot general , Sir John [ later first Earl of ] Ligonier , aged 65 , who had also been called back from the Continent , though it was understood he would become subordinate to Cumberland as soon as the latter was ready to take over . |
| 26 | Businesses that have sponsored for more than three years will also be brought back into the scheme . |
| 27 | there is increased liberality in interpretation in several texts , but they can mostly be traced back to the increasing imperial intervention in trust cases from the time of Marcus Aurelius . |
| 28 | If information could be transmitted from here to a Centauri in less time than this , it would effectively be travelling back into the past . |
| 29 | The problem in such cases can often be traced back to the actions of the owner . |
| 30 | The start of the London Underground-BR Crossrail scheme , scheduled originally for 1995 , could now be put back following the decision to involve the private sector.Likely to take five years to complete , the scheme would run from Reading and Aylesbury in the west across London to Shenfield in Essex in the east . |