Example sentences of "[modal v] be [verb] back for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They demanded that the Shah , who had fled from Iran and who was undergoing treatment for cancer in the USA , should be sent back for trial before the hostages were set free . |
| 2 | Asked if the death penalty should be brought back for terrorist murderers , a majority supported its return . |
| 3 | But embedded voices and ambiguous modes of focalisation are not particular to narrative fiction , and the analytical techniques derived from linguistics for literary stylistics and narratology may be borrowed back for application to non-literary discourses with all the added explanatory power that such interdisciplinary sabbaticals can achieve . |
| 4 | The small ones will be kept back for seed , and anything damaged by worms or excavation will become cattle fodder ; but all the rest go for chips . |
| 5 | Parallel trade is now so well established that Health Department payments to pharmacists can be clawed back for sales of discounted drugs . |