Example sentences of "of 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 ! |