Example sentences of "return to its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But £2.5 million of extra work booked in May — with no dithering — gives Foden the sense that , now the initial shock of the slump has worn off , business is returning to its normal rhythms , albeit in a lower key . |
| 2 | In the late and post-Roman periods , this commercial economy was disrupted and abandoned , returning to its former subsistence level . |
| 3 | De Gaulle was often depicted as a Don Quixote tilting at windmills or King Canute trying to turn back the waves , while the reality was that France was a middle-sized power with no prospect of returning to its Napoleonic glories . |
| 4 | A glance at the Tour map shows how the race starts in Spain and travels through Belgium , Holland , Luxembourg and Germany before returning to its traditional territory . |
| 5 | Standard car 40 is the pride of the Crich workshops and provides the Centenary logo before returning to its native system in 1985 . |
| 6 | Therefore it is true to say that , when a person stiffens the neck muscles and pulls back the head , not only is the body 's natural coordination being obstructed but it is also being prevented from returning to its natural state of ease and equilibrium . |
| 7 | When the opera and ballet company 's home town of Leningrad reverted last year to St Petersburg , the Kirov hoped to follow suit by returning to its old name . |
| 8 | On the River Severn , the otter is returning to its old haunts , with colonies spreading from Wales all the way down to Gloucestershire . |
| 9 | With the new gallery Colnaghi 's is , in a sense , returning to its historical roots : in 1783 Paul Colnaghi was running Anthony Torre 's establishment , selling works of art at premises on the rue du Faubourg St-Honoré ; in 1784 he came to London . |
| 10 | On top of all this , there is some risk that the Soviet Union is returning to its hardline ways , which might include tilting back to Iraq . |
| 11 | She tested it with the concept of Henrietta , and yes , undoubtedly it responded , changing its frequency to an angry buzz before returning to its smooth hum . |
| 12 | It was rebuilt after a fire in the thirteenth century , altered and restored in contemporary style in the seventeenth , but returned to its former state in the 1920s . |
| 13 | A traditionally holy part of Dakota which was seized by the American government , stripped of its mineral wealth and never returned to its rightful owners , the hills house a world-famous testament to white power . |
| 14 | After the war it returned to its original Brescia-Rome-Brescia route . |
| 15 | If the House was worried , the government could not refuse a full explanation nor could it return to its other business till members were satisfied . |
| 16 | Speaking on July 2 , Miyazawa confessed that he was " very , very embarrassed " at the size of his country 's surplus — which totalled $43,000 million in 1991 — but expressed confidence that it would not return to its 1987 high-point of $60,000 million . |
| 17 | The likely result of the Great Onion Disaster is that the Dir district will return to its traditional crop of opium with a vengeance . |
| 18 | She knew that in speaking to Alix her voice would find its normal level , her mind would return to its normal tuning . |
| 19 | As we mentioned earlier , once a logogen reaches threshold , its activation level does not immediately return to its normal resting level ; it decays over a period of a second or so . |
| 20 | As it is , the estimates by engineers this week of how the diverted lava will flow and how soon it might return to its old course will be based largely on guesswork . |
| 21 | ‘ Send away the ark of the God of Israel , ’ the people cry , ‘ and let it return to its own place , that it may not slay us and our people ’ ( 5.11 ) . |
| 22 | An initiative by him in 1944 ensured that the Royal Opera House , Covent Garden , would return to its proper activities after wartime use as a dancehall . |
| 23 | On its own heating and cooling of the lithosphere will not create a basin as the crust will simply return to its original elevation . |
| 24 | In 1991 , the Fair moved to the ground floor of the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Kreuzberg , but in the autumn of 1993 , when the event is next due to be held , it will return to its original venue the former orangery at Schloss Charlottenburg . |
| 25 | Once ejaculation and orgasm have been achieved by the man his penis will more or less rapidly return to its former size . |
| 26 | English fiction in 1945 was already beginning to return to its eighteenth-century roots — a return confirmed soon after by Kingsley Amis , John Wain and Iris Murdoch , where the realism of Defoe and Fielding was to be self-consciously revived . |
| 27 | Your body needs to return to its normal pace slowly , just as it must be warmed up . |
| 28 | The church leaders ' letters aim to encourage the British Government to return to its former policy of supporting the nuclear non-proliferation treaty by calling a moratorium on weapons testing , as the French , US and Russian governments have done . |
| 29 | The church leaders ' letters aim to encourage the British government to return to its former policy of supporting the nuclear non-proliferation treaty , as the French , US and Russian governments have done . |
| 30 | He must start a campaign for this classic show to return to its rightful TV slot . |