Example sentences of "[verb] is [vb pp] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the laser reaches the pale stone surface the light emitted is bounced back instead of absorbed and the process ceases . |
| 2 | Working reflectively , light shown here as transmitted is reflected back through the cell , re-twisted , and seen by the viewer . |
| 3 | The real issue is that the power of the female to gestate is brought back into symbolic conjunction with the generation of the divine presence , a conjunction excluded by patriarchal religion for four millennia . |
| 4 | Nahh … what I 'd really like to do is come back as the guy who shot Reagan a few years back , only I would n't miss ! |
| 5 | I have tried to deal with this in good faith , but if anyone feels they have a problem , all they have to do is come back to this office . ’ |
| 6 | Now what I would like to do is come back and see you either next week or the week after . |
| 7 | Now we 've found D Y by D X all we need to do is put back Q to what it was . |
| 8 | I 've mentioned it to him and what he 's saying is come back with a firm proposal . |
| 9 | Genette systematically coins new terms for aspects of narrative which have already been named but which imply a psychological or realist element : flashback becomes amalepsis , point of view becomes focalization , the opposition between telling and showing is translated back into Plato 's terms diegesis and mimesis , and so on . |