Example sentences of "it [modal v] be [vb pp] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wants growth on the scale of Korea and to ‘ uncouple the Northern Irish economy from the mainland ’ — at the moment he fears that it may be dragged back by the South East . |
| 2 | Quite restrictive , but having gone through a phase of ambivalence about what population they could accommodate , one view was that there was no real problem , another view in the fifties it should be cut back . |
| 3 | It will force you to think and plan what to do with every item and if necessary give specific instructions about when it should be brought back for your attention . |
| 4 | We 're having a discussion about erm , whether it should be brought back |
| 5 | Well we were having a discussion about erm whether it should be brought back . |
| 6 | ‘ Cricket ’ , remarked Pelham Warner sternly , ‘ is not a circus , and it would be far better that it should be driven back to the village green … than yield a jot to the petulant demands of the spectator . ’ |
| 7 | If the complaint turns out to be more serious or if agreement can not be reached on a resolution , it must be referred back for a full investigation . |
| 8 | It could be argued back , however , that intent is one of the hardest things to prove . |
| 9 | Although the advance tax would be payable on the special dividends , it could be clawed back under the Chancellor 's proposed scheme . |
| 10 | The hugely distended stomach had to be decompressed before it could be returned back into the abdomen , and the defect in the left hemidiaphragm ( 6×5 cm ) was repaired with 2–0 silk sutures . |
| 11 | I 'd already told him where she kept it … and he was afraid that if he left it there it 'd be traced back to him . |
| 12 | Work on which cumulative and other forms of assessment have been based may be returned to candidates on a written undertaking that it shall be given back , if required , at any time within one year from the examination . |
| 13 | It would be sent back if it was n't filled in would n't it ? |
| 14 | We would not be able to see such a star because light from its surface would not reach us ; it would be dragged back by the star 's gravitational field . |
| 15 | Investors have been expecting its publication for the last two weeks but are fearful it will be kept back for the week when Parliament goes into the Christmas recess . |
| 16 | Does my right hon. Friend realise that in dealing with things that we hold so dear we want to make sure that the European Community gives us a good bargain and that what we give to it will be given back to us ? |
| 17 | But if it is proved the club received pension money , it will be given back . |
| 18 | It is expected that the A–20 will be moved by road to the Weeks Museum in Florida , where it will be put back into stock flying condition . |
| 19 | Once the water has turned the generator , it will be discharged back into the river in exactly the same state and volume as abstracted . |
| 20 | It will be looked back upon by history as one of the remarkable achievements of the human spirit to have discovered how a very little violence can destroy the good conscience of the major institutions of society , and interchange the positions of sense and nonsense , right or wrong . |
| 21 | There may be promises that it will be paid back in three months , in direct proportion to clearance of outstanding client debts . |
| 22 | Once the routine is established the dog is unlikely to vary its habits significantly as it will be attracted back to the scent . |
| 23 | You may want to change the format , say from Video 8 to VHS , so that it can be played back on your table-top VCR , or to convert the sound track from hi-fi to a linear edge track which can then be edited by audio dub . |
| 24 | An individual accountant will often be charged with the task of recording project expenditure so that , as at node 9 of Figure 2.2 , it can be fed back and compared with the project plan . |
| 25 | An individual accountant will often be charged with the task of recording project expenditure so that , as at node 9 of Figure 2.2 , it can be fed back and compared with the project plan . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , a generalization is only acceptable to the reader when it can be traced back to the evidence collected . |
| 27 | It can be traced back to Hogg and Barke and Lewis Grassic Gibbon . |
| 28 | It can be traced back to the creation of a committee of New Socialists in 1989 , which held a Congress in 1990 and formed a small Socialist Party of the USSR . |
| 29 | It can be traced back , for instance , to the rudimentary sexual division of labour between hunting ( male ) and horticulture ( mainly female ) in certain ‘ primitive ’ societies ( Terray , 1972 , pp. 108–110 ) . |
| 30 | The sovereignty of Parliament has been the linchpin of our unwritten and flexible constitution ; it can be traced back in our political practice and constitutional theory for almost three centuries ; and yet the constitutional authorities have come to see it as the fundamental constitutional problem needing challenge and change . |