Example sentences of "returns to [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , remarkably , she has formed an affectionate bond with Rosa Hannah 's much loved senior cow , which for part of the year returns to her old pastures because Bill Purves , the neighbour who cares for Rosa rents the grazing from the new owners . |
| 2 | Finally she returns to her original distinction between female , feminine and feminist , and suggests how the relation between them might have implications for possible developments in the practice of philosophy . |
| 3 | Practical Running returns to its usual format in June . |
| 4 | If it does not crease easily , or if the pile returns to its former shape when smoothed out flat , the wool is probably good . |
| 5 | The process goes on for several days , a few polyps occasionally expanding briefly , until finally the coral returns to its former glory . |
| 6 | We already know that the building of new roads only generates more traffic , and that congestion rapidly returns to its former levels . |
| 7 | After a short delay time ( 10 -8 s ) the excited atom or molecule returns to its former energy state and may emit radiation in the form of light , alpha- , beta- or gamma-rays . |
| 8 | PUERPERIUM — The period that begins with lying-in following delivery and lasts about six weeks or 42 days until the female reproductive system returns to its normal state . |
| 9 | This happens when nitrogen , dissolved in the blood under the high pressure of deep water , returns to its gaseous form , causing bubbles that can block blood vessels and destroy the cells ' soft tissue . |
| 10 | A simple test for woollen rugs is to fold or crease the pile and see how quickly the wool returns to its original shape . |
| 11 | It goes through a cycle of changes until it finally returns to its original state and then merges into infinite time . |
| 12 | If you do set too high , you may find that the first syllable spoken after a pause is distorted , especially on p's and b's , after which the overall level of the recording drops to a lower value as the speaker continues ; during the next pause in speech , the background slowly returns to its original value until the speech resumes , whereupon it falls again . |
| 13 | So how will the new recruit ensure the company returns to its 1990 levels of health ? |
| 14 | He then returns to his first mate , the primary female , whose eggs are by now just hatching , and helps her raise this brood . |
| 15 | He returns to his familiar theme of the need to study issues in depth and to do all the necessary homework . |
| 16 | He retrieves a grey robe from a whale they catch , and in it returns to his own land to convert his heathen countrymen . |
| 17 | Their homecoming , going to earth and returning to sources , reaches , in a sense , its furthest point in ‘ The Dry Salvages ’ , where Eliot returns to his own St Louis and Massachusetts childhood , to ‘ The life of significant soil ’ , and to the savage meanings associated with such beginnings . |
| 18 | Sadly this was one of the last public appearances in London of Sir William Heseltine , before he returns to his native Australia this autumn . |
| 19 | After the new student experiences his first free sparring fight , he returns to his daily training with an intensified ardour , determined to correct his shortcomings in order to get his fighting application up to standard for the next sparring session . |