Example sentences of "[modal v] be drag back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The gravitational field of the singularity would be so strong that light could not escape from the region around it but would be dragged back by the gravitational field . |
| 4 | That is to say , an object fired vertically upward from the surface of the star with a velocity of less than a thousand kilometers per second would be dragged back by the gravitational field of the star and would return to the surface , whereas an object with a velocity greater than that would escape to infinity . |
| 5 | After that time any light emitted from the star would not be able to escape to infinity but would be dragged back by the gravitational field . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | However , if the sun were to shrink until it was only a few miles across , the bending would be so great that light leaving the sun would not get away but would be dragged back by the sun 's gravitational field . |
| 8 | On this assumption , a Cambridge don , John Michell , wrote a paper in 1783 in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London in which he pointed out that a star that was sufficiently massive and compact would have such a strong gravitational field that light could not escape : any light emitted from the surface of the star would be dragged back by the star 's gravitational attraction before it could get very far . |