Example sentences of "could be [verb] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | These conflicts , he contended , although highlighted in the differences between the Western Marxism of Lukács and the orthodoxy of Marxist-Leninism , could be traced back to the work of Marx himself . |
| 2 | On that occasion three miles of slums were levelled as a pathway along which the stranded plane could be dragged back to the International Airport runway . |
| 3 | Although the advance tax would be payable on the special dividends , it could be clawed back under the Chancellor 's proposed scheme . |
| 4 | It stated that anyone who moved into a property valued at less that £10 a year could be sent back to the place where he or she was last legally settled if they were likely to become chargeable to the poor rates . |
| 5 | Administrative assistant — the accuracy of the checking procedure , ie the number of errors undetected at this stage that could be referred back by the personnel section or the finance department . |
| 6 | Does my hon. Friend agree that such an arrangement would not only broaden the health services already made available to patients but achieve financial savings that could be ploughed back into the provision of other services ? |
| 7 | So Montblanc began to specialize in the Safety pen , in which the whole nib section could be screwed back into the barrel , thereby sealing the ink container like a cork in a bottle . |
| 8 | In the age of imperialism , an older model of history based on the rise and fall of empires could be projected back onto the fossil record to justify the world-wide expansion of modern Europeans . |
| 9 | Thus London Rolling Stone 's product could be fed back to the West Coast parent . |
| 10 | If all goes well , the peregrine could be released back into the wild in 3 months time . |
| 11 | Sometimes the excess products could be released back onto the market , but at other times they were sold abroad at a loss or simply destroyed . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In this way , provided they are given guidance on the type and volume of work expected , schools could be brought back into the mainstream of assessing their own pupils ' work instead of being totally dependent on the success or failure of the guessing games they play with the examiner . |