Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] be [vb pp] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , she thought , I might be called back and I would not know what to say , I do not want to go amongst mad people , to have them stare at me , to see the unpleasantness of a lot of geriatric cases . |
| 2 | Thank God , Charlie thought , I 'm still alive , and surely now I 'll be sent back to England . |
| 3 | It may be appropriate to establish in the course of the discussions the information on the potential acquiror which may be conveyed back to the client . |
| 4 | However , there are 26,000 empty council houses , a considerable portion of which could be brought back into use . |
| 5 | She said no decision had yet been made on extending the Bosnians ' stay , but said nobody would be sent back . |
| 6 | The Herald Society will be a recipient of this sponsorship programme , as officials of FMS have inspected herald G–APWA , which will be transported back to its birthplace at Woodley in the near future . |
| 7 | On active citizenship Labour has had little to say , although Labour spokespersons haves given support to the general idea of civic responsibility and the encouragement of a sense of community , which can be traced back to the nineteenth century traditions of civic virtue and community solidarity which are strong in the Labour party . |
| 8 | But increasingly , doubts , some of which can be traced back to a general report on the supply of professional services by the Monopolies Commission in 1970 , were raised about whether restraints on competition in the professions are necessarily beneficial . |
| 9 | It is a church whose authority lies in its age and its preservation of a form of worship which can be traced back through two millennia . |
| 10 | However the recent revival of interest in the practice , which can be traced back to 1977 , represents a new departure , rendering it of far greater potential significance than it has previously assumed . |
| 11 | Each word has component parts which can be traced back to one of 800 roots . |
| 12 | The family , which can be traced back to the thirteenth century , lived at the manor of Cavendish Overhall , Suffolk , until the house and lands were sold in 1596 by William Cavendish , Michael 's eldest brother . |
| 13 | As we have observed in earlier chapters , one of the major concerns of government one which can be traced back to the last century — is the control of the level of expenditure by the state . |
| 14 | Was the uninterrupted growth and full employment of the '50s and '60s partly due to a belief ( which can be traced back to World War II ) that demand management would prevent mass unemployment if it ever showed signs of recurring ? |
| 15 | And those pro the , the guidelines would , if accepted , enable schemes two and three to continue , on the basis that the capital receipts from the sale of the are earmarked for this sort of investments , and that these in their turn will generate a flow of capital receipts which can be ploughed back for the benefit of the to the totality of County Council 's capital programme . |
| 16 | If you grow clematis on roses , choose varieties like C. viticella which can be cut back so that they do not inhabit rose pruning . |
| 17 | Rotate crops and use green manures , ie leafy crops which can be dug back into the soil . |
| 18 | The switch of tactics on the part of the war-tax resistance movement which can be dated back to 1977 is potentially of great significance because it provided the conditions in which a broad-based political campaign may be mounted , calling for a statutory right of tax diversion and relying on litigation as an auxiliary and subordinate weapon , instead of depending exclusively on litigation to try to bring about a change in the law directly . |
| 19 | Churchill 's decision to set up S Branch and his support for the economists within the Cabinet Office stemmed from an enduring distrust of official advice on economic policy which can be dated back to his unhappy time at the Treasury in 1924–29 , particularly his much criticised decision , taken on official advice , to return to the gold standard in 1925 . |
| 20 | 1 x Purple sage Salvia officinalis ’ ‘ Purpurascens ’ has velvety , grey-purple leaves and spikes of blue summer flowers ; it makes a lax bush which can be pruned back in spring . |
| 21 | But you MUST fix somewhere to stay before you arrive or you may be bounced back under their vagrancy laws . |
| 22 | Once inside he left her in a dim , dingy room where she sat with her bundle and the firm belief that the cruel joke would soon be over and she 'd be taken back to her ward . |
| 23 | While those and many other bus users would simply cut the number of journeys they make , experts believe there would be a body of people , especially rail commmuters , who 'd be driven back into their cars by fare increases . |
| 24 | If Sien went back with them , she would be driven back to her old life in no time . |
| 25 | Within days of helping me you would be transferred back to the hospital wing of Vladimir , within a few months you would be home … think on it . |
| 26 | After the details have been displayed , you will be taken back immediately to the option prompt . |
| 27 | The canal itself will be handed back to Panama on December 31 , 1999 . |
| 28 | The Larrikins , who can be traced back to 1870 in Australia , were also organised into local gangs or ‘ pushes ’ , and even allowing for exaggeration and over-involvement ( we need not readily accept , for example , that they gorged themselves on raw meat or rigged elections by terrorising voters , as was sometimes alleged ) their behaviour was unbeatably appalling . |
| 29 | I knew when I got into trouble I might get sent back , because when you 've been to prison once , you can be sent back every time you get into trouble . |
| 30 | At least that way there is no way you can be held back by the so-called ‘ glass ceiling ’ — the phrase coined in the United States to describe the invisible barriers that allow women to rise only so far in an organisation . |