Example sentences of "[prep] a return to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Midlands ' plants had been putting great pressure on the Merseysiders to call off the strike , as a result of which a mass meeting at Pier Head , Liverpool , had been demanded to vote on the question of a return to work . |
| 2 | Timex management decided the offer of a return to work was unacceptable . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ( 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 ) . |
| 5 | When informed that his dream of a return to Idaho was out of the question , Joseph said : |
| 6 | That 's looking more likely now but whispers of a return to Sunderland in exchange for Don Goodman are wide of the mark |
| 7 | Advocates of a return to gold still remain , and at times there have been proposals to consider reinstating it as the key reserve asset in the international monetary system . |
| 8 | It is a sign that ordinary men and women at the workface of wealth-creation are appalled at the notion of a return to state intervention . |
| 9 | Having divested themselves of their overstocks , they are now issuing some exciting new products and are showing signs of a return to profitability . |
| 10 | For both reasons , he resisted attempts to reinsert Spain fully into the international capitalist system until forced to do so by the prospect of a return to wartime rationing . |
| 11 | So in saving the party from a desperate situation in Ireland , the First World War also robbed the Unionist party of a return to power . |
| 12 | The talks covered the holding of elections in Cambodia , the prevention of a return to power by the Khmers Rouges , administration in the transitional period before elections , the restoration of peace and the country 's permanent neutrality , and the issue of US prisoners of war and soldiers missing in action ( POW-MIA ) . |
| 13 | There is clearly force in Mr. Yeltsin 's view that greater support for economic development is essential for political stability and for the prevention of any possibility of a return to totalitarianism and militarism in the former Soviet Union . |
| 14 | There are already signs ( I am actually writing this during the autumn of 1982 ) of a return to Community Arts . |
| 15 | News of a return to dividends after no payment in 1990–91 sent the shares up 9 to 40p . |
| 16 | If , when bed time comes , she falls asleep with a smile on her face , fair enough , but no dreams of a return to Downing Street please ! |
| 17 | Hun Sen , the prime minister , constantly emphasises in his election campaign that his government is the sole credible safeguard against a return to power by Pol Pot 's men . |
| 18 | The Phnom Penh government and its army are the only reliable safeguards against a return to power by the Khmers Rouges . |
| 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 | No 4468 Mallard was being prepared for a return to steam for the 50th anniversary of its 1938 world record speed run . |
| 21 | The liberal centre considered the Manifesto less than satisfactory but sufficient grounds for a return to normality . |
| 22 | Liberals generally considered the Manifesto less than satisfactory but sufficient grounds for a return to normality . |
| 23 | ‘ How I long for a return to wingers , all-out attack — and entertainment . ’ |
| 24 | But with recent fears that reading standards have fallen , a parent who 's long promoted the old-fashioned way is pushing for a return to basics . |
| 25 | A mass meeting of the Raybestos workers was then held at which workers agreed to return to work after being assured by union representatives that a safety investigation would take place at the factory and the findings would be made available as a precondition for a return to work . |
| 26 | Once it had been issued , moderate unions , including the Union of Railwaymen , called for a return to work . |
| 27 | The Solidarity leader Lech Walesa also appealed for a return to work . |
| 28 | After calling for a return to work they organised a series of campaigns , about censorship , the campaign for the eight hour working day . |
| 29 | The American people opted for a return to isolationism : in consequence , the League lacked the power and cohesion to curb the ambitions of the Axis powers . |
| 30 | In London , the Foreign Office called for a return to democracy , and EC talks have begun on concerted action . |