Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] [verb] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smith therefore felt that the manufacturers ' allocations should be cut back to a more realistic level than the BEA 's plant-ordering programme , while he allocated more steel for the foundation and building work on power station sites which was the bottleneck . |
| 2 | Flowering shoots of winter jasmine , J. nudiflorum , should be cut back to within two or three buds from the main stem , while the oldest stems on honeysuckle should be cut back close to the base . |
| 3 | Poinsettias should be cut back to within 4in of the roots , and left to rest until new shoots appear . |
| 4 | When the emergent leaves are formed , they should be cut back at the bottom at the stalks . |
| 5 | The foliage of the pulmonaria should be cut back in winter to allow its new flowers to come through unconcealed in spring . |
| 6 | When however consideration is given to which patients should be transferred back to locally based hospitals from the geographically remote major illness hospitals , there are comparatively few for whom such a transfer is in their best interests , clinically or socially . |
| 7 | Perhaps we should be getting back to the roots of organisations like the RA and footpath preservation societies in encouraging people to wander more freely and make use of neglected local paths . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But , whatever happened to the Germans , McCreery was suggesting that the 200,000 Croats at least should be sent back to Tito . |
| 10 | It is suggested that defective receipts should not be accepted , but should be sent back to be corrected . |
| 11 | But her husband applied to the courts to have the children returned and in April this year a High Court judge ruled they should be sent back to him in South Dakota . |
| 12 | EASTER egg packaging should be posted back to manufacturers , say the organisers of a ‘ return to sender ’ campaign launched today to highlight unnecessary wrapping . |
| 13 | Market research should assess consumer satisfaction , whilst consumer likes and preferences that stem from use or consumption of the product should be fed back into the advertising , promotion and product differentiation that are important inputs at the information search and evaluation of alternatives stages in the model . |
| 14 | Progress during implementation should be monitored on both a time and a cost basis against a critical path-based plan , and regular reports should be fed back to more senior management . |
| 15 | By right and custom , he himself and James here should be going back to the house for the reading of the will , but this very new Sir Joseph had made it evident yesterday that he wanted no reading done in the house and that he would let them know when he wanted the matter dealt with . |
| 16 | Could we not be told that after Wellesley 's magnificent Arabian charger , Diomed , left him by a brother officer killed in a squalid duel , was piked at Assaye he insisted he should be nursed back to fitness and not put down like the other wounded horses ? |
| 17 | ‘ He should be allowed back to Ireland instead of having to hide . |
| 18 | Inexpensive cottons can be hung from rods or poles and left to hang free at the bottom , although they should be caught back over doors and windows with tie-backs . |
| 19 | Erm , on the basis that they should be put back into the position that they would have been had there been no breach . |
| 20 | At a meeting of the European Commission last week , the Commissioner for tax , France 's Christiane Scrivener , shocked her colleagues by suggesting that the member states ' case may prove overwhelming or at least that the system as first proposed should be put back until 1995 . |
| 21 | The money should be paid back with interest . |
| 22 | The cost of upgrading each workstation to CD-Rom is around £300 , a figure that should be paid back in around three years . |
| 23 | Within days he was back in London , reporting to his Executive that the strike was hopeless and that the members should be got back to work . |
| 24 | He did n't know why he was saying these words ; deep down he knew that he should be running back to the truck and getting the rescue organized . |
| 25 | The proportion of commission should be passed back to the Claimant . |
| 26 | Critics say the houses should be brought back into use . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Asked if the death penalty should be brought back for terrorist murderers , a majority supported its return . |
| 29 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 30 | At this , Golding decided they should be driven back to Swans ' Meadow , accompanied by Finch and a lugubrious detective sergeant called Barrett . |