Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] returned to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the French police eventually traced the pieces to Osaka , lack of cooperation on the part of the Japanese authorities meant that they were not returned to France until June 1990 , and then only on the condition that they were returned to Japan by December of that year . |
| 2 | By late September the government was attempting to negotiate with the rebels through local community leaders , and about 90 people taken hostage in the north were subsequently returned to N'Djamena . |
| 3 | A second shutdown of the 3B unit occurred but following investigation the unit was successfully returned to services . |
| 4 | They even brought with them the distinctive knocker which was later returned to Oxford in the late nineteenth century . |
| 5 | He was subsequently returned to Khartoum for medical treatment and is now believed to be back in Kober prison . |
| 6 | Interox was also planning a new 50 000 tonne pa hydrogen peroxide plant at Bernburg , the site in the former East Germany that was recently returned to Solvay . |