Example sentences of "have [verb] back on [art] " in BNC.

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1 Ignoring this , the present Government has cut back on the already poorly resourced Youth Training and Employment Training programme .
2 OR when a gate has swung back on a horse rapping its knees or trapping its foot .
3 Hewlett-Packard Co has swung back on the offensive in the US with a predatory enhanced workstation trade-in programme , which it says accepts the broadest range of workstations , personal computers and X terminals in part exchange for new Precision Architecture RISC workstations and X stations .
4 When they 'd landed back on the plate , he leaned forward , studying the pattern they 'd formed .
5 By eschewing the obvious solution of a differential dividend payment , the group has had to fall back on the option of endowing the chemicals company with additional cash by way of a rights issue from Zeneca .
6 Thus , we would have to fall back on the anthropic principle to explain why the electron has the mass and charge that it does .
7 Unless you take a different view , our own preference would be to pursue the question of a travelling display as actively as we can , recognising , however , that if it does not prove feasible for reasons of finance and other resources to mount such a display in the foreseeable future we may have to fall back on the reduced-size Barrel Vault display .
8 The reforms could also mean that the most experienced specialist officers , such as police divers , would have to go back on the beat .
9 The blame was placed squarely on the United States for having gone back on the Moscow agreement and on the basis worked out by Marshall and Molotov for renewing the meetings of the Joint Commission .
10 I am known as Sideways Reynolds and I might have to cut back on the speed on the corners .
11 Hence the study had to fall back on a proxy for measures of ill health — standardised mortality ratios ( SMRs ) or death rates from different diseases standardised by age .
12 He had a high-rolling joint on the SS Nocturne , a ship anchored outside the limits , and some nasty rumours had floated back on the tides along with a well-dressed corpse or two .
13 All seven Fulmars had landed back on the carrier by 2015 but two were again scrambled almost immediately on the approach of three more S.79s .
14 So she had to ride back on the she rode back on the
15 Right , and the background to that of course is , for those of you who may not know , Bullett was I suppose a more junior person in the State Department , when he went to Europe with Woodrow Wilson in nineteen eighteen , and nineteen whenever it was for a peace conference , and Bullett was the only one of the American delegation who resigned and confronted Wilson and said , look , you 've gone back on the fourteen points , you 're not doing what you said you would do .
16 They 've cut back on the number of trainees ; they 've cut back on the number of occasionally used specialists ; they 're really down to the bedrock now .
17 They 've cut back on the number of trainees ; they 've cut back on the number of occasionally used specialists ; they 're really down to the bedrock now .
18 And something 's changed in the intervening time , I mean I know there 's aggravation and times are hard , I know we 've cut back on the hours and the rest , but there 's a lot of things that are n't good .
19 On the far side of it stood a village of longhouses , much like the ones we had left back on the coast , except that these were entered by round doors instead of the normal rectangular ones .
20 When she 'd closed the case he had sunk back on the pillow , a thin smile on his face , his lips tinged with yellow .
21 THE Tories have fallen back on a quack cure for the economic ills they are forcing upon our country — even higher prescription charges .
22 Insecure Christian men feeling threatened have fallen back on the Scriptures with authoritarian tunnel vision , while Christian women are learning Greek and Hebrew in order to find a loophole to invalidate this ‘ yoke of bondage ’ .
23 The constituent legislation of other tribunals contains provisions allowing access to the High Court , whereas some tribunals have to fall back on the appeals contained in s.13 of the Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1971 .
24 I have got back on the adrenalin and enthusiasm for these first few matches and hopefully in the next six weeks you will see the best of me . ’
25 But with falling profits many employers have cut back on the perk .
26 You may think you have to cut back on the necessities of life for a few days or cancel a treat you had promised yourself and the family .
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