| We've had a few false dawns this year where we've had one or two results but then went back to square one. |
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| Their hope, in the very bleakness of their existence, is ultimately shattered, and we realize they are back to square one at best. |
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| So, if the post or the publisher lost the top copy of your ms, you were back to square one. |
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| And then the inherent looniness of the regime reasserts itself and we are back to square one. |
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| He made his comeback a year later but after 12 games he was back to square one. |
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| But after only four months, the owner announced he was closing it down and they were back to square one. |
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| However, try not to buy anything else on credit while you still have this debt, otherwise you'll be back to square one. |
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| Having spent all summer to earn money to put yourself through college, Christmas comes and goes and you find yourself back to square one. |
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| A negative result, however, will effectively send the case back to square one. |
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| The minute I finished my treatment I was back to square one, and they say they don't have anything else that I can do. |
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| One member of the executive said yesterday that the pay deal could now be ripped up, sending the dispute back to square one. |
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| Justifying speciesism takes us back to square one, but with an ugly, misleading and tendentious neologism thrown in. |
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| Do I need to go back to square one or do I just keep the mileage up without the speed work? |
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| I think that the prosecution and the police have gone back to square one. |
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| In 1999 we lost all of our good players and went back to square one. |
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| Last week's decision by the Bureau will not enter into force, therefore, and we will be back to square one. |
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| This study is not saying that we must go back to square one and start from scratch. |
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| They could cut their losses and decide to go back to square one and start again. |
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| If you go back to your old ways of eating, you'll go back to square one or even worse. |
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| If we are going to rewrite history, then we need to go back to square one and start all over again. |
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| Once the game has begun, players can go back to square one as many times as they like, thus consolidating the learning process. |
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| It's like solving a Chinese tangram: Each time one puzzle piece doesn't fit, it's back to square one. |
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| Peter and his friends were back to square one, Galilee and boats, needing to do the only thing they knew. |
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| However, according to the weather forecast, the winds will pick up this evening and then we are back to square one tomorrow. |
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| So back to square one, how do we get this economy on the move? |
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| If an agreement on the Statute is rendered impossible, we are back to square one as regards the travel costs, too. |
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| Going back to square one would be an unjust outcome and a prize to the aggressor. |
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| So it is back to square one unless the Good Friday Agreement holds. |
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| Mr Maxwell added that the defendant had been making steps towards living a proper lifestyle and, if she lost her liberty, she would be back to square one. |
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| Engineers managed to get trains running on time again by the early hours today, but further problems near Bethnal Green put them back to square one. |
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| Another short-lived experience of AFD aid was the fund for the replacement of rapid buses in Dakar, for 10 years later the situation is back to square one. |
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| Canadian diplomacy cannot go back to square one. |
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| In opposing this bill, the Bloc Québécois and Liberal members do not realize how many workers who have had the same job or worked in the same industry their entire lives could end up having to go back to square one. |
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| That is the situation, and we would not like to go back to square one. |
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| The government will have to withdraw the bill, go back to square one as my colleague asked, and include an industry that is extremely important for Quebec and for all of Canada. |
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| I am afraid that we may then go back to square one. |
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| Today, we have a situation where everyone is back to square one. |
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| It has taken us a year to get back to square one. |
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| If I let my guard down and don't pay attention to what triggers it and to my treatment, I go back to square one and my skin gets dry, inflamed, sore and itchy. |
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| Attempts to delete or change some of its substantive elements would not only upset this balance but could send the negotiating process back to square one. |
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| Of course the solution put in place back then isn't perfect, but change insists that you go back to square one of the consultation process, not to mention all the consequences within the company. |
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| That brought some districts back to square one. |
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| I am now back to square one with everything in the downstairs of my property ruined. |
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| The Thandi Partnership do not seem to learn from past errors and so we are now back to square one. |
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| It is staggering to realise that when we, as Parliament, vote on the plan's current version, we shall in fact be back to square one, and this after two years of hard graft on the part of the Commission and Parliament. |
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| After spending six hours on the intake we realized that there was nothing wrong with it, so we are back to square one. |
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| After spending six hours on the intake we realized that there was nothing wrong with it, so we went back to square one. |
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| I believe that we must somehow go back to square one and that the Commission must produce its own proposal, taking Parliament's recommendations into consideration. |
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| We discovered that our first idea would never work, so we were back to square one. |
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| To go back to square one, when did you start guitaring? |
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| Withal he has the problem of maintaining the interest of the reader who is always being sent back to square one in a sort of intellectual game of snakes and ladders. |
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| Just to get me back to square one, where I was at in the old days. |
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| So far, Sarah and her partner Holder have barked up the wrong tree, resulting in a vicious revenge attack by Rosie's father on a suspect, and now they are back to square one. |
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| The Swan-McManus treble was completed when Back To Square One, who started 6-4 favourite, made a winning debut in the bumper. |
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| But can they have accepted Edmund Wilson's verdict that all detective fiction is only Holmesish imitation, and elected to go back to Square One? |
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