turning back

collocation in English

meanings of turningand back

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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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Examples of turning back

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Turningback to single-agreement verbs, we can now suggest a solution to the typological puzzle they present.
Turningback, you descend more steps before arriving on a sector of a circular platform at the start of the glass colonnade.
Turningback to the ' new broom thesis ', this implies that new leaders cannot be new brooms if they do not have a solid political base.
Turningback to 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).
With feelings and music now fully out in the open, there is no turningback; the scene quickly draws to an end.
Turningback to the acquisition of lexical forms, maternal reproductive verbal replies which incorporate part of the child's preceding phonetic forms would also constitute a contrast.
The motion of turningback to its original target was a continuation of the sharp left turn.
After centuries of detachment, the focus of attention is now turningback to the fingertip and from it to the moon.
One spoke then, in turningback to a phrase from the 1950s, of 'electronic music'.
It grew vigorously, and simultaneously it committed itself to different paths, without turningback to look at its own results.
For these religiously oriented parents, once their infant is resuscitated, there is no turningback.
Turningback for 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.
There is a feeling that their productive environment has fundamentally altered and that there is no turningback.
Duffin sees value in turningback the technological clock to embrace ways of hearing that we are in danger of losing for ever.
Early neo-scholastics especially did not conceive of themselves as merely turningback the clock, but sought to defend scholastic thought as a way of solving contemporary problems.
Once that happens, there is no turningback.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
We have embarked on a course from which there is no turningback.
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The matter is urgent, because this coal business has a nasty habit of turningback upon you suddenly when you least expect it.
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