Example sentences of "be [verb] back for [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parallel trade is now so well established that Health Department payments to pharmacists can be clawed back for sales of discounted drugs . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ( A further five were referred back for lack of such sponsors ) . |
| 4 | With consumption in Great Britain averaging 114kg ( 250lb ) per head per annum , incidentally the highest consumption figure in Europe , most of the crop is consumed in this country ; some potatoes are exported whilst the remainder are held back for use as a seed to produce the following year 's crop . |
| 5 | In fact the major pilgrimage route to Santiago is said to be that by which Priscillian 's body was brought back for burial from Trier . |
| 6 | Officials at the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) are increasingly concerned over the problem of Eastern Europe 's growing nuclear waste , which until the beginning of this year was taken back for reprocessing under special concessional terms by the Soviet Union . |