Example sentences of "[pos pn] return to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Commenting on its figures ( page seven ) Cypress Semiconductor Corp , San Jose , says that its return to profitability in the first quarter shows that its restructuring efforts are working : headcount has been reduced to 1,394 in the quarter from 1,529 at the end of 1992 . |
| 2 | Recovering Alphameric Plc is seeking to raise another £363,000 to bolster its return to prosperity with a placing of 1.29m shares at 28.25 pence a time via Henderson Crosthwaite Corporate Finance Ltd . |
| 3 | The young academic coolly eyed the embattled farmer and , commenting upon the destruction wrought upon the fen , looked forward to its return to wilderness after the war , so that it could act as a buffer for the nature reserve of Wicken Fen against the farmed land : |
| 4 | She ought to have hated the child she was carrying , it being the cause of her return to squalor after the effort she had made to rise above it , but since she 'd felt it move she could n't reject it . |
| 5 | Since her marriage , she had become accustomed to a less competitive and more rural way of life and therefore regarded her return to court as a duty , an onerous duty . |
| 6 | Sch 2 provides that an employee who has been continuously employed for a period of not less than two years shall have , as at present , the right to postpone her return to work for up to 29 weeks — with the possibility of an extension of four weeks if there is incapacity and medical evidence . |
| 7 | Sterland announced his return to fitness by saying : ‘ I am picking up my training steadily and looking to turn out for the reserves in the middle of next week . |
| 8 | Only the width of a post denied him a sensational late equaliser at Everton in the following round , and Second Division Brighton will greet his return to action with some trepidation in tonight 's second round replay . |
| 9 | Just before the break , Charlie Nicholas , enjoying his return to action after an 18-game absence , unleashed a ferocious , 18-yard effort that clipped the base of a post . |
| 10 | Ever since his return to power in 1958 , his foreign policy had been pointed in that direction : his development of an independent French nuclear deterrent and his growing estrangement from NATO are part of that general background against which his treatment of the EEC in 1965 must be understood . |
| 11 | There had been intense speculation over whether or not Rawlings would compete in the first free presidential contest since his return to power in a military coup in December 1981 ( having previously chaired the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council which had ruled Ghana from June to September 1979 — see pp. 30437-51 ; 31477-86 ) . |