Example sentences of "[coord] a [adj] return to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has led , Hall argues , to an increasing ‘ moral authoritarianism ’ , one involving , for example , the strengthening of the police force , a re-emphasis on family life as a means of controlling juvenile delinquency , increased calls for capital punishment , and a general return to old or ‘ Victorian ’ values . |
| 2 | Now , his Malthusian reflections prompted both a new ecological understanding of adaptive sorting and a final return to Lyellian ecology for all extinctions . |
| 3 | The above considerations are simply meant to signal my conviction that a change of balance is desirable , with a move away from the narrow professionalism of the academy , and a modest return to the original motives of the discipline of English . |
| 4 | It was time for farewell to England and a brief return to Australia for a much-needed holiday . |
| 5 | Calculations had been based , unreasonably in the view of many , on an imminent re-opening of the mine and a rapid return to full production . |
| 6 | Since the rise of semi-literate England as seen in the dissolution of so many libraries is something that only political action will be able to solve — in an age when , despite a decade of ‘ Thatcherism ’ and a supposed return to Victorian standards , the state is still all-powerful — it is suitable to end on a political note . |
| 7 | These establishments are sited in the community at large and are half-way between continuing treatment and a full return to the outside world . |
| 8 | This civil war had also created bitter feelings on the West Bank , but an eventual return to Jordanian rule was expected . |