Example sentences of "a return to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the RMP at Thorey Island , Sunday morning brings watermanship tests , swimming and PT and a return to barracks after lunch . |
| 2 | It was an evening of blissful happiness for Jack 's brother , a return to boyhood , those beloved ‘ Malvern days when it was just the two of us against the P'daytabird ’ . |
| 3 | As in After Strange Gods , he is concerned in his conclusion with a return to sources , that is with going back to the savage and working forwards towards his solution to the problem– of modern industrial life ; again such a movement is presented in terms of a familiar encounter . |
| 4 | Humankind , to summarise , has been moving shoddywards since about 480 BC , when Confucius , Buddha , the Second Isaiah and Pythagoras died : to be succeeded , sages of wisdom and toleration that they were , by a return to superstition not unlike the reactions that tragically followed the Enlightenment or Victorian rationalism . |
| 5 | But there is a way through and in spite of how the sufferer may feel at the time , there will be a return to normality . |
| 6 | advantage of both , then I think that a solution can be found , and that a return to normality in the case of the conquered sufficient to render existence bearable , honourable , and even enjoyable , can be secured . |
| 7 | Each input or interaction upsets homeostasis , but the parts which make up the system are programmed to respond in such a way as to ensure a return to normality . |
| 8 | The liberal centre considered the Manifesto less than satisfactory but sufficient grounds for a return to normality . |
| 9 | Present troubles are not so much an outbreak of anarchy , as a return to normality , with all its faults … |
| 10 | The better explanation remains that the policy pursued by the trade unions during the winter of discontent did indeed mark a return to normality . |
| 11 | It implies that there will be a return to normality , to the philosophy of the pig-trough . |
| 12 | That is not what unions , under the present dispensation , are about ; and that is why , after three years of wage restraint under the compulsion of economic crisis , there was in 1979 what the Financial Times properly called a return to normality , with all its faults . |
| 13 | Ho responded immediately to this newspaper article by proposing various measures which might lead to a return to normality and to the hopeful provisions of the modus vivendi , not least an end to the press and radio incitements from both sides , but whether at this stage Ho and Blum were in the saddle or not , things were beginning to fall apart . |
| 14 | Liberals generally considered the Manifesto less than satisfactory but sufficient grounds for a return to normality . |
| 15 | A committee of heads of state of countries neighbouring Ethiopia was established to aid the process of a return to normality , stability and security there . |
| 16 | Blundell foresees equivalent advantages in transgenic plants for foods , fibres , energy products , pharmaceuticals , organic chemicals and construction materials — in short a return to agriculture as a major source of raw materials . |
| 17 | LAURA Ashley , at 93p , will tomorrow announce a return to trading profit after its recent setbacks . |
| 18 | When informed that his dream of a return to Idaho was out of the question , Joseph said : |
| 19 | For the Palestinians , the Lebanon conflict was now a ‘ war of liberation ’ in its own right , intimately bound up with the aspiration for a return to Palestine , a conflict in which the Maronite militias became a proxy enemy . |
| 20 | ( 2 ) That the evidence as to the situation of the mother and child in the event of a return to Ontario did not establish a risk that the child would be placed in an intolerable situation within the meaning of article 13 ; and that , accordingly , since article 13 did not apply and since the child 's removal was wrongful , the court had no discretion but was under a mandatory duty to order the child 's return to Ontario under article 12 of the Convention ( post , pp. 871A–C , 873H — 874C , G–H , 875A ) . |
| 21 | The album has its moments , and some people — forever willing a return to greatness from Dylan — will no doubt say it 's a masterwork . |
| 22 | A return to Uulaa at festival time always brightens me up , even with danger around , and I would have liked someone to share it with . |
| 23 | General de Gaulle wrote to Ho Chi Minh on 8 February 1966 , stressing that peace could only be restored by a return to non-intervention ; the United States was not named , but clearly this was in de Gaulle 's mind . |
| 24 | Having divested themselves of their overstocks , they are now issuing some exciting new products and are showing signs of a return to profitability . |
| 25 | Productivity improvements led to further losses of jobs , cut from 190,000 in 1979 to 51,600 in 1988 ( Figure 5.6B ) , and to a return to profitability and private ownership , although the survival of the Ravenscraig Works ( Strathclyde ) , threatened in 1990 , was owed to political factors . |
| 26 | But for Hurricane Andrew' we would have reported a profit of almost $22m in the third quarter and a return to profitability in for the nine months . |
| 27 | A return to profitability and , with it , BP 's traditionally high reputation will come from successful teamwork . |
| 28 | Now that the results of our efforts are showing in a return to profitability , everyone in Chemicals manufacturing knows that they have an important contribution to make in transforming the Chemicals business into a really successful part of Johnson Matthey . |
| 29 | City will welcome a return to home territory after three successive away games , which have seen them pick up only one point from the draw at Carlisle on Tuesday . |
| 30 | There was a period when cyclists disappeared from the Meet altogether but they have started to return in the last few years and among the highlights of this year 's event — May 22–25 — will be a return to races on the old grass cycle track around the perimeter of Richmond Cricket Club 's ground and a road race for penny-farthings . |