Example sentences of "[verb] been [vb pp] back from " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE extraordinary thing about Laura Ashley is not that it has been dragged back from the financial brink ; it is that it was ever pushed there in the first place . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , ICE-T 's new LP ‘ Home Invasion ’ , the rapper 's first release since the ‘ Cop Killer ’ furore , has been pushed back from its original November 10 release date to early 1993 . |
| 3 | The upfilling of section sof beach on the south side of the old fly ash block , which was agreed by the Director at the request of ELDC Councillors , has been held back from the Contractor . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The game has been put back from next Tuesday because of the Old Trafford second leg . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This softly layered bob has been teased back from the face and dressed with wax |
| 8 | The taste for sweet and highly spiced food , which made little use of the plants which grew easily in our temperate Northern climate , may well have been brought back from the Holy Land by returning Crusaders . |
| 9 | In that year , the Norwegian Olaf and Swegan the Dane vented their fury on the shire , having been driven back from an attempt on London . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Mr Evans said that capital spending had been cut back from original plans to offset the squeeze on profitability . |
| 12 | It is not clear whether these were part of the advance column who had been marched back from Bleiburg or some of the vast majority of the Croats who had never entered Austria at all . |
| 13 | Her hear , damp from the bath , had been pulled back from her face , giving it a very youthful expression . |
| 14 | For what would you have done this time last year if a lass had been held back from you like this ? |
| 15 | General Montgomery , who had been brought back from Italy to take a very prominent part in the ‘ D day ’ operation and the subsequent advance through France , Belgium , Holland and Germany , had been appointed Field Marshall and found himself considered a hero of the people , wherever he went . |
| 16 | Dalgliesh found himself wondering if it had been brought back from a school trip to the capital . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Or had something which had been brought back from Romania in another golf bag been fitted inside it ? |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The prosecution could not prove that he had encashed the giros because they are destroyed by the DSS twelve months after they have been received back from the clearing banks . |
| 21 | ‘ What has happened is that we have been clawed back from the disastrous level of whitefish we started at to a position in line with the top end of scientific advice . ’ |
| 22 | They are , indeed , reported by people who have been brought back from the edge of death — though mundane scientists tend to attribute them to the effects of oxygen starvation on a failing brain . |