Example sentences of "[vb pp] back by a " in BNC.
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| 1 | One unguarded remark by Byrkin , one remark that had been carried back by a man with innocence on his face to those who would judge Byrkin . |
| 2 | Other less clear-cut chances were also smashed back by a Springbok side which continues to make the most of their discipline despite having less ball and creating fewer chances than the opposition . |
| 3 | Evenwood were pegged back by a Darren Rawlston goal at home to Billingham Town after Sean Monaghan had put them ahead . |
| 4 | They took the lead courtesy of Trevor Smith 's sixth goal of the season but were pegged back by an equaliser from Johnny Jameson who failed to appear for the second half . |
| 5 | The new conventional wisdom which divides the young old from the old old at 75 marks a boundary for entry into the last stage of life which has now been pushed back by a dozen years . |
| 6 | I 'm called back by a member of the Guardia Nacional . |
| 7 | In the United States a national botanical garden was founded to exploit the seeds and plants brought back by a Pacific exploration expedition under Charles Wilkes in the years 1838–42 . |
| 8 | This onslaught was driven back by a police baton charge in the course of which four youths were slightly hurt . |
| 9 | He advanced again , but was driven back by a hail of blows . |
| 10 | But they were driven back by a hail of huge roof slates . |
| 11 | ‘ I have offered a prediction to several officials of the Soviet government that , on the present slow course , the reforms run a very high risk of being set back by a general collapse of confidence in the rouble — an inflationary disintegration , ’ Mr Angell said . |
| 12 | Between 1873 and 1878 , for example , the hesitant growth of American trade unionism was dramatically set back by a 5-year economic depression . |
| 13 | Waved back by a Kalashnikov-wielding , spotty boy-soldier , I was subject to a ten-minute harangue by two bad-tempered border guards . |
| 14 | The torturers were waved back by a senior clerk who had accompanied the French King to the dungeon . |
| 15 | By refusing office , Labour would lose all the parliamentary advantages it had gained by becoming the official Opposition in 1922 ; its position in the country might be put back by a decade . |
| 16 | The problem is that more and more heat is being kept back by a blanket of gases surrounding the Earth ( including Carbon Dioxide and CFCs ) and as a result temperatures around the world are gradually increasing . |
| 17 | There was to be a review for them , when any man who would like to go back to France would be sent back by a route through Marseilles , and he would provide for any man who wished to serve with his newly formed force , the Free French . |
| 18 | The fabrics side was held back by a decline in demand for batiks in West Africa . |
| 19 | And the overall engineering figures seemed to have been held back by a ten per cent drop in the fourth quarter , pulling it down to the overall UK trend for the year of minus five per cent . |
| 20 | Business has been held back by a combination of recession and tough environmental laws but the drive is on to recover lost sales volume . |