Example sentences of "[modal v] be [verb] back to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The proportion of commission should be passed back to the Claimant . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 6 | Provisions to take current assets to net realisable value must be written back to the extent that the reasons for making the provision no longer apply . |
| 7 | The Directive must be sent back to the drawing board . |
| 8 | This must be sent back to the returning officer by hand or by post so as to reach him before 9.00pm on polling day at local government elections and 10.00pm at parliamentary and European Parliament elections . |
| 9 | So whilst the intersections of logical spaces at an elemental level will allow the elemental functions to be maintained , these must be reflected back to the next higher level in the system to establish whether the required function of that assembly space has been achieved or corrupted . |
| 10 | The struggle must be carried back to the Dalek city , they argue . |
| 11 | The fiscal and institutional roots of stability might be traced back to the 1690s , with the financial revolution ( which meant that England 's ruling elite finally worked how to finance government effectively ) and the growth of bureaucracy ( which laid the foundations for firm executive control by the central government which emerged in the eighteenth century ) . |
| 12 | If the word is too long ( i.e. longer than some upper bound ) then do not attempt correction , in which case the word might be sent back to the user to be re-written . |
| 13 | And erm I think we 'll be going back to the kind of erm conditions that there were in the Victorian age and in Dickens ' age . |
| 14 | we 'll be going back to the Manor Ground a little later on to find out the winner in our manager competition . |
| 15 | Nick Harris reporting , and of course we 'll be going back to the Manor ground shortly and catching up hopefully with Nick Harris and some of Oxford United players . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Thus London Rolling Stone 's product could be fed back to the West Coast parent . |
| 20 | They feel that , on alcohol advertising in particular , the EC has ducked the issues posed by a single market and satellite broadcasting ; and that as a result regulations may be cut back to the loosest common denominator . |
| 21 | The question of the place of objects in the formation of mental imagery may be referred back to the discussion of play . |
| 22 | The origins of Cognitive–Behaviour therapy may be traced back to the philosopher Epictetus , who in the first century AD wrote ‘ People are disturbed not so much by events as by the views which they take of them ’ . |
| 23 | However , studies of children 's communicative abilities prior to the onset of spoken language have indicated that the origins of communication may be traced back to the earliest days after birth , and that full mastery of the morpho-syntactic devices for expressing complex meanings may not be fully understood until early adolescence . |
| 24 | Although first language acquisition is strictly related to the development of social identity , Watts ' conclusions that a certain set of perceptions is characteristic of Swiss-German readers ( p. 37 ) and that it " may be traced back to the kind of socialization into literacy " ( p. 39 ) are debatable mainly because the presented responses seem to be applicable to various categories of readers . |
| 25 | Matters previous transferred from the High Court under s 42 may be transferred back to the High Court ( s 42(4) ) . |
| 26 | The emphasis could well be changed once again , and may be switched back to the private sector , but in a new and different form — especially given the fact that an Urban Development Corporation was designated in Sheffield in March 1988 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Some of this stuff may be coming back to the states via the Far East . |
| 29 | The additional contributions would be channelled back to the lending institutions by the Department of Social Security . |
| 30 | Tha that would mean that all pensioners who are drawing the pension from pension funds would be penalised back to the date that you 're talking about . |