Example sentences of "[noun sg] to back " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nearer home Reagan displayed in Central America readiness to back established and sometimes reactionary governments against left-wing guerrilla movements , as in El Salvador , or opposition to left-wing governments , as in Nicaragua . |
| 2 | When Paul Devereux took over The Ley Hunter in 1976 , it was widely assumed that some form of energy existed at ancient sites , but there had been virtually no research to back these ideas up . |
| 3 | However , as well as a means to drive volume sales , the deal is an obvious way for Sun to back into Microsoft Corp Windows NT . |
| 4 | This official was furious when it appeared that Oslear had spoken to media men about his determination to back Palmer and Hampshire , as well as Lamb , the only England cricketer who has had the courage to take on the cricket establishment . |
| 5 | He informed them of Gen Morgan 's visit to Belgrade two days earlier , and Tito 's refusal to back down on his claim to sovereignty over Venezia Giulia . |
| 6 | How strong this support will prove to be in the last analysis remains to be seen , but Labour 's treatment of Mr Gould and its refusal to back calls for a referendum on the Treaty suggest that any hopes of altering the movement towards European Federalism remain with the Conservative Party . |
| 7 | The campaign has been launched in part because of what Greenpeace calls the government 's failure to back alternatives to chlorine-based technology and instead to encourage the use of HCFCs , which are still damaging to the ozone layer . |
| 8 | In economic affairs , his most serious failure had been his reluctance to back Pierre Mendès-France in a vital policy debate inside the government in late 1944 and early 1945 . |
| 9 | At the earlier hearing , Sheriff Reid had heard that Walters had dreamt up the fraud after a Jersey-based financier had failed to come up with cash to back market research for a new board game . |
| 10 | Murphy pays credit to back row |
| 11 | To obtain a sine output , use the two schottky diodes back to back on the summing point to round the triangle : the resulting sine is accurate to about 1% THD . |
| 12 | Back to back with Howard Brenton 's HID , this simplistic piece of agit-prop suggests that the RSC 's Almeida season will have decidedly limited appeal . |
| 13 | He 's battled his appetite ( two , three desserts , meals back to back ) and sedentary lapses for years . |
| 14 | Back To Back ( Big World ) |
| 15 | Condition the hardboard by brushing its rough face with water — about one litre for a 2400 × 1200mm ( 8 × 4ft ) sheet — then stack the sheets back to back flat on the floor for 48 hours . |
| 16 | These were back to back on the long side-walls each with their Habitat anglepoise , Roland 's black , Val 's rose-pink . |
| 17 | Some do discounts for ‘ back to back ’ courses , extending the three or four day holiday to a week . |
| 18 | Back to back bar charts can be used as back to back stem and leaf displays were to compare two distributions . |
| 19 | Back to back bar charts can be used as back to back stem and leaf displays were to compare two distributions . |
| 20 | ‘ Right , let's spread out a bit and get back to back , ’ said Yanto with a grin , ‘ you ready Bill ? ’ |
| 21 | The two boys stood back to back , the girls did the same . |
| 22 | In collisions at relatively low energies of PETRA ( the electron-positron accelerator at DESY ) the quark and anti-quark produce two streams of particles that appear back to back in apparatus surrounding the collision point . |
| 23 | It will closely resemble a pair of normal diesel locomotives coupled back to back . |
| 24 | What the apparatus ‘ sees ’ is the decay of the Z o into an electron and a positron ( an antielectron ) flying off back to back from the point of the collision . |
| 25 | Assessments of individuals along any of these scales is an element of the shared local knowledge which develops out of living in face to face ( or often back to back ) communities . |
| 26 | For their own safety they should stand back to back so that they have a completely free field of fire over 180 degrees each . |
| 27 | I 've had books back to back , and , as a result , I do n't get a chance to do much else . |
| 28 | Chairs must be placed down the room , back to back , one less in number than the players who gallop round them in time to the music . |
| 29 | We did a back to back test on about eight speakers and found that two were drastically different from the rest , and that was the normal 25-watt speaker and the Celestion Vintage 30 . |
| 30 | To show how adult even a major Fox movie could be in the late sixties , the credit sequence has the two lovebirds in bed together , cutely sleeping side by side and back to back . |