Example sentences of "return to [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pie was made to celebrate the bicentenary of the first pie , which was baked in 1788 to celebrate the return to sanity of George Ill . |
| 2 | Glaxo Group Research has a range of policies to provide support to , and facilitate the easier return to work of , women who have been on maternity leave . |
| 3 | In the late 1980s , this demand has been much increased by the partial return to school of those who were out of school or sent away to rural areas during the school boycotts and political turmoil of the late 1970s and early 1980s . |
| 4 | The prime reason for bringing in a new constitution in 1937 was the return to dominance of the republican grouping , the side which had lost the civil war , and which had retained the intention of establishing a republic . |
| 5 | The return to action of the highly regarded John Rae Collective should have launched the concert in style , but they were decidedly lacklustre after an extended layoff , and showed only occasional flashes of the energy and invention which made them Scotland 's best and most creative jazz outfit . |
| 6 | The slight movements from the recovery cage brought her back to the present and she felt a great sense of relief as she watched the gradual return to consciousness of her patient . |
| 7 | ‘ The coming of age of [ political ] democracy in our society ’ was , in the event , marked in 1979 not by the return to office of the Labour Government which had written the terms of reference for the Bullock Committee , and to which the trade union movement might look for the advancement of industrial democracy as the movement had specified it . |
| 8 | But they have their own good news with the return to fitness of the GB forward Hugh Waddell , out with a broken jaw since November , and David Creasser , who has played only once this season . |
| 9 | Mervyn Cawston , 41 , keeps his place in goal despite the return to fitness of Kevin Foster and O'Sullivan is also pleased with the recent form of converted centre-back Kurt Davidson . |
| 10 | SCOTLAND manager Andy Roxburgh has welcomed the return to fitness of Middlesbrough midfielder Willie Falconer . |
| 11 | Many of the significant trends in Spanish art over the last ten years are represented : the return to expressionism of Sicilia , Sevilla and Barcelo , the lyrical style of Campano and Broto , the monumental sculpture of Susana Solano and the geometrical works of Sergi Aguilar , not forgetting the surrealist objects of Pepe Espaliu and the metaphysical inspiration of Dis Berlin . |
| 12 | France decided not to rely upon either the Americans or the perfidious British — a reaction which was strengthened by the return to power of Charles de Gaulle ( May 1958 ) . |
| 13 | According to Hun Sen , the government , while accepting most of the plan , wanted it to include " concrete measures " to prevent the return to power of the " genocidal " Pol Pot regime ( the Khmer Rouge regime of 1976-79 ) . |
| 14 | He welcomed the return to power of Soviet President Gorbachev . |
| 15 | A general election held in June 1987 resulted in the return to power of a coalition government led by Paias Wingti , but this was defeated in a parliamentary vote of no confidence on July 4 , 1988 , and replaced by a coalition led by Namaliu . |
| 16 | The SOC Deputy Foreign Minister Sok An said that the US move would contribute to preventing the return to power of the Khmers Rouges and would raise living standards . |
| 17 | In September 1991 , after the banning of the republican Communist Party , Ikramov had ordered the removal of Lenin 's statue in Dushanbe — a controversial order which appeared to precipitate the return to power of the majority communist faction in the Supreme Soviet [ see p. 38418 ] . |
| 18 | The latest development prompted widespread speculation that the army intended to supervise fresh elections which could favour the return to power of Benazir Bhutto , leader of the Pakistan People 's Party ( PPP ) . |
| 19 | ‘ We are talking about the return to power of the Communist nomenklatura ( party elite ) , ’ Mr Kostikov said later in an interview with Russian and Reuter television , ‘ … that very nomenklatura which fell with such a thunderous crash in August 1991 . ’ |