Example sentences of "[conj] return [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The abolition of national service , Commonwealth immigration , the entry into the labour market of the ‘ baby boom ’ generation , and the increasing numbers of married women remaining in or returning to work all provided additional supplies of labour . |
| 2 | ‘ Nurseries provide the best possible start for children and give women choices about returning to work or returning to training . ’ |
| 3 | We will be looking at a wide range of candidates — you may be a new graduate , or in mid-career and looking for a change of direction , or returning to employment after a career break . |
| 4 | We will develop measures to encourage women with family responsibilities to enter or return to teaching . |
| 5 | The decision to take time off work or to return to work is complicated and will vary between individuals and at different times . |
| 6 | The Royal College 's proposals give the patient an unrealistic choice : to accept treatment in the community or to return to hospital . |
| 7 | He links this to the act of consciousness raising , which I consider presents the greatest problem for the insider who can not leave the field or return to academia . |
| 8 | If , however , they show no sign of ability to make contact or to learn by five years they are placed in a special school , welfare institution or returned to family surroundings . |
| 9 | Upon receipt of such written , telefaxed or telexed claim , or its agent or representative shall have the right to test or to inspect the Licensed Software at its then location or to have the Licensed Software despatched to a point designated by or returned to carriage pre-paid . |
| 10 | MUCH of the carbon assimilated by plants is allocated to fine root production , and the amount of carbon and nutrients subsequently returned to the soil from fine root turnover equals or surpasses that returned through leaf litter in many forests . |
| 11 | On seeing them escape , Shovel requested that he be shot with his own pistol , rather than return in disgrace . |
| 12 | He noted that return on individual lots would obviously be better for vendors at 9% than Christie 's current 15%-10% but that the levelling off to one figure meant that Christie 's will look more competitive overall whenever they enter the market . |
| 13 | But both measures are opposed by OPEC representatives worried that returns on investment in oil production could be hit . |
| 14 | In all my years of experience , I would suggest that only the smallest minority of pension holders have appreciated the fact that returns on death were derisory , and that there was a relationship between the benefits on death and the benefits at the end . |
| 15 | In medieval times independent auditors were employed by feudal barons to ensure that returns from tenant farmers accurately reflected revenues received from estates . |
| 16 | ‘ If it cheers you any , be assured that the depth of feeling you hold for me is more than returned in kind . ’ |
| 17 | Two carriers operated from Essex Road , these ran a daily service to the Medway towns , taking goods for sale from the village , and returning with merchandise both private and trade , including potions for the village herbalist . |
| 18 | The purpose of the ‘ new ’ probation-order team would be to monitor standard operating procedures , research programme strategies , communications networks , command structures , and any other structural factors which might be linked to the corporation 's previous misbehaviour and then make recommendations which the company could not refuse to implement without the risk of revoking the probation licence and returning to court for resentencing . |
| 19 | Consider a salesman who has to visit each of n towns once , starting from and returning to town l . |
| 20 | When the accompanying stream drops over a ledge , it is a signal to retreat and return to daylight . |
| 21 | But , in the early days of production on the site , an order sent off from the mill to London was accidentally read and returned as tweed . |
| 22 | She went out and returned around midnight . |
| 23 | His immediate response was to tell Maj-Gen Schmidt-Richberg to make further attempts to contact Tito 's forces moving north to stand fast for 24 hours ; and to return to HQ 5 Corps for further orders at 1600 hrs the following afternoon , 14 May . |
| 24 | Gould had only a couple of weeks to spare here ( he had been delayed a week in Maitland on the lower reaches of the Hunter while he waited to meet up with Stephen Coxen ) , having promised Eliza to forsake his desire to continue collecting , and to return in time for the delivery of their child . |
| 25 | The employee top 10 features those companies which are expanding fastest , and it says something for the performance of WPP that it has managed to perform well in eps and return on capital terms at the same time as it has achieved that expansion . |
| 26 | The financial plan showed the investment impact on sales , profit and return on investment per year over the next ten years , while the financing plan described how the investment was to be financed : namely , from borrowings in the early years until the plan became self-financing from funds accrued from current operations , in year four . |
| 27 | He then described his proposals to reduce that cost penalty and turn the division from an operating loss into a satisfactory profit and return on investment . |
| 28 | Unemployment in the sector would be reduced by two hundred thousand , and existing manufacturing capacity , previously made idle by imports , would once more be fully utilised , thus improving operating profit and return on investment . |
| 29 | Finally at 0015 the casualty was safely under tow to Lowestoft with the master and engineer aboard and the lifeboat was able to retrieve her hard-working crew and return to station . |
| 30 | AFTER BIRDSONG DISMANTLE EXISTING COMMUNICATIONS CHANNEL AND RETURN TO HOME NEST IMMEDIATELY . |