Example sentences of "to return the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If not , you are entitled to return the hamper and ask for your money back . |
| 2 | He reaffirmed the government 's commitment to its programme to return the country to democratic civilian rule on schedule in 1992 . |
| 3 | Warning that if times were difficult now , they would be worse in the future , Castro called for " heroism and courage " in the face of exterior pressures to return the country " to capitalism , to prostitution , to the sack of the public treasury and to racial discrimination " . |
| 4 | Following the general election of March 22 ( which aimed to return the country to civilian rule ) a loose coalition of five pro-military parties headed by the air force-backed Samakkhi Tham had attempted to form a government [ see p. 38816 ] . |
| 5 | This was interpreted locally as an endorsement of the plans of President Alberto Keinya Fujimori to return the country to formal democratic rule following his army-backed presidential coup on April 5 [ see pp. 38846-47 ] . |
| 6 | Simply put , this replaces one of the springs in the rear cavity with an adjustable ‘ piston ’ which is set to return the tremolo more accurately to its standing position , hence keeping the instrument 's tuning more stable . |
| 7 | To return the unit for reloading , or resetting the film by manual wind-on , the second kite is brought down . |
| 8 | The effect on salinity caused by bringing in less-saline Mediterranean water will be to return the sea to something approaching its former condition when the River Jordan inflow was strong . |
| 9 | So I came here to return the jade to you before going home . ’ |
| 10 | Only at the end of the story do you realise that his parents are separated or divorced and that the journey is to return the child to his mother after an access visit . |
| 11 | On the parents ' separation the mother initially left the four children of the marriage with the father in the former matrimonial home but on her subsequently removing one of the children the father applied ex parte for orders , including a residence order , a prohibited steps order and a specific issue order pursuant to section 8 of the Children Act 1989 requiring her to return the child and directing her not to remove any of the children from the father 's care and control . |
| 12 | By an application dated 17 March 1992 the father applied ex parte for an injunction requiring the mother , inter alia , to return the child , A. , to his care and directing her not to remove or attempt to remove the other children , G. , R. and M. from his care without consent . |
| 13 | If , as usually should be the case , the courts of [ England ] decide to return the child to the jurisdiction of the courts of [ Australia ] , the latter courts will be in no way inhibited from giving permission for the child to return to [ England ] or indeed becoming settled there and so subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of that country . |
| 14 | It was submitted to Ewbank J. and accepted by him , that , if the mother were to be ordered to return the child to Canada , ‘ it would be an intolerable situation for the child . ’ |
| 15 | If , as usually should be the case , the courts of country B decide to return the child to the jurisdiction of the courts of country A , the latter courts will be in no way inhibited from giving permission for the child to return to country B or indeed becoming settled there and so subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of that country . |
| 16 | Logically , they 've singed to Motown Mary 's home and having proved themselves more than an intelligent East Coast dance act , they 're series contenders in the face to return the lustre to soul 's tarnished crown . |
| 17 | The overwhelming need to return the hurt , although this seems to be a necessary stage , can become the overriding passion , It can lead a woman into almost daily aggressive confrontations with men in order to sustain high levels of hatred . |
| 18 | You should not have to return the watch to the manufacturers . |
| 19 | Also , section 19 requires the buyer to return the bill of lading to the seller . |
| 20 | She forgot to return the bill , though . |
| 21 | They are also incorporated into internal filters and external filters ; and provide the water moving power for the most advanced trickle or wet and dry filters ( which are usually gravity-fed , the pump being in the last section to return the water . ) |
| 22 | He lifted his hat an inch or two and directed a toothy smile first at her and then at Eleanor 's retreating figure , as if ready to return the wave and the greeting that he evidently expected of her . |
| 23 | It is tempting to see these works as belonging to a formidable and sustained effort to return the history of science to where it was before it was invaded by what Hall may see as sociologizing and ‘ hermeticizing ’ interlopers . |
| 24 | One solution increasingly adopted by farmers has been to return the land to grass again . |
| 25 | The Court of Appeal of Hong Kong held that the bank was under an obligation to return the deposit and the bank appealed : |
| 26 | So it seems fair not to return the deposit . |
| 27 | It 's hardly a policy to say that they 're stating we 're intending to return the Trust to N H S when it 's never left the N H S in the first place . |
| 28 | Dowd 's head thrashed to and fro as this indignity was visited upon him , only once raising his gaze to stare accusingly at Godolphin , who was too busy about this undoing to return the look . |
| 29 | and the nurse enjoys her work , could have some value as a little stretch of human relationship , but all that really pertained to it as nursing would be futile , since the point of nursing is normally to return the patient to a healthy life in the world outside . |
| 30 | Another step in the clockwise direction can be produced by removing the excitation of stack B and exciting stack G. The final step of the sequence is to return the excitation to stack A. Again the stator and rotor teeth in stack A are fully aligned , except that the rotor has moved one rotor tooth pitch , i.e. the angle between adjacent rotor teeth defined in Fig.l .3(b) . |