turning back
collocation in Englishmeaningsofturningandback
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turning
noun[C]
uk/ˈtɜː.nɪŋ/us/ˈtɝː.nɪŋ/
a place, especially a road, track, or path, where you can leave the road you ...
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back
noun[C]
uk/bæk/us/bæk/
the inside or outside part of an object, vehicle, building, etc. that is furthest from ...
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(Definition ofturningandbackfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Turningbackto single-agreement verbs, we can now suggest a solution to the typological puzzle they present.
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Turningback, you descend more steps before arriving on a sector of a circular platform at the start of the glass colonnade.
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Turningbackto the ' new broom thesis ', this implies that new leaders cannot be new brooms if they do not have a solid political base.
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Turningbackto our discussion of variation in biology, it is certainly true that aspects of form are determined by the organism's interaction with its context (environment).
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With feelings and music now fully out in the open, there is noturningback; the scene quickly draws to an end.
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Turningbackto the acquisition of lexical forms, maternal reproductive verbal replies which incorporate part of the child's preceding phonetic forms would also constitute a contrast.
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The motion ofturningbackto its original target was a continuation of the sharp left turn.
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After centuries of detachment, the focus of attention is nowturningbackto the fingertip and from it to the moon.
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One spoke then, inturningbackto a phrase from the 1950s, of 'electronic music'.
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It grew vigorously, and simultaneously it committed itself to different paths, withoutturningbackto look at its own results.
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For these religiously oriented parents, once their infant is resuscitated, there is noturningback.
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Turningbackfor the moment to the subject of opera with an author-designed allegorical meaning (of whatever sort), we should consider three issues that have been largely ignored by critics.
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There is a feeling that their productive environment has fundamentally altered and that there is noturningback.
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Duffin sees value inturningbackthe technological clock to embrace ways of hearing that we are in danger of losing for ever.
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Early neo-scholastics especially did not conceive of themselves as merelyturningbackthe clock, but sought to defend scholastic thought as a way of solving contemporary problems.
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Once that happens, there is noturningback.
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We have embarked on a course from which there is noturningback.
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The matter is urgent, because this coal business has a nasty habit ofturningbackupon you suddenly when you least expect it.
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