Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [be] [vb pp] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | just to point out to members that the promised report on the lorry management plan which is in the first preparation has been put back to the January committee meeting on the Highways Committee so that we can get full advantage from the traffic and |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But their bid has been knocked back by the Government which claimed their independent valuation was only about half the real value . |
| 4 | The issue has been referred back to the MacLeod Estates , from whom a reply is awaited . |
| 5 | Export factoring has been held back by gaps in the companies ' international networks . |
| 6 | The trial of a man accused of stabbing another man to death in the doorway of his home has been put back until later in the week . |
| 7 | In fishing this literally means that the catching sector has been forced back into a more primitive , earlier phase . |
| 8 | Help from industry has provided a welcome boost to the restoration of R-Robert , with the bomb beam assembly restored by Dan-Air Services at Lasham , the outer wings were rebuilt by Monarch Aircraft Engineering at Luton , the port engine has been put back into original condition by British Airways Engineering at Heathrow and the cockpit canopy frame donated by the RAF Museum and reglazed by British Airways . |
| 9 | There were Iris and Michael , both just over 70 , whose marriage had been held back by his being a divorced Irish Catholic . |
| 10 | Business has been held back by a combination of recession and tough environmental laws but the drive is on to recover lost sales volume . |
| 11 | It also said that its proposed flotation has been held back to late this year or early next . |
| 12 | However , it is not necessary for the user to prove conclusively that the right has been exercised back to this date . |
| 13 | All that had been achieved was a more punitive regime , while the cause of sex reform had been set back by the whitewashing of women and the doctrine of the uncleanness of men . |
| 14 | The lay-out of the town had been established back in the twelfth century when a new market place had replaced the old , congested commercial area alongside the church . |
| 15 | The arrival of the T9000 Transputer threatened to be an anti-climax , given that the device had been previewed back in 1991 ( CI No 1,653 ) . |
| 16 | However , the process had been set back by delays in the assembly programme [ see p. 38706 ] . |
| 17 | As a consequence , the members of the team have been thrown back on what amounts to a re-discovery of the mental welfare officer role — visiting , keeping an eye on things , and acting as a gatekeeper for routing some resources to individuals and families . |
| 18 | Workfare was on the committee 's agenda but the committee has now been wound up and it is thought workfare has been pushed back as an idea requiring long-term consideration rather than implementation in the near future . |
| 19 | The Terminator has been sent back in time from a future world dominated by machines to assassinate Sarah ( Linda Hamilton from TV 's Beauty and the Beast ) . |
| 20 | The salmonella has been traced back to contaminated Scotch eggs . |
| 21 | Mills 's activity as a surveyor and architect has been traced back to 1638 , but his claim to architectural celebrity was his building in 1654–6 of Thorpe Hall , near Peterborough , for Oliver St John [ q.v . ] , |
| 22 | At his funeral you could see where his head had been stitched back onto his body . |
| 23 | However , in April 1990 the President of the World Bank , Barber Conable , said that economic development had been held back in sub-Saharan African countries by the weakness of their political systems , nepotism and corruption . |
| 24 | The game has been put back from next Tuesday because of the Old Trafford second leg . |
| 25 | He commented to a local newspaper : ‘ Every penny has been ploughed back in . |
| 26 | The bodies of eight of the nine airmen killed when their Hercules crashed last week have been flown back to RAF Lyneham . |
| 27 | So far , more than 2,000 bodies picked up in the border area have been sent back to their families . |
| 28 | AN IDEA for transmitting signals through the mains wiring has been traced back to 1897 , when Joseph Routin and C. E. L. Brown of Zurich , Switzerland , took out British Patent number 24833 . |
| 29 | The full flesh of his cheeks and chin had been scalped back to the bone . |
| 30 | Mr Evans said that capital spending had been cut back from original plans to offset the squeeze on profitability . |