Example sentences of "return to our [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Returning to our simple example of male deafness , for n men aged 45–50 on a previous survey five years earlier and now , therefore , aged 50–55 , we might have numbers such as : |
| 2 | Returning to our main theme , the practical choice of pricing systems in increasing returns cases lies between deficit financing , Ramsey-optimal pricing , two-part tariffs , declining block tariffs , or some other non-uniform pricing scheme . |
| 3 | Returning to our canine theme , dogs still carry with them the same instincts possessed by their wild ancestors , still remaining members of that same species — the wild wolf — even after so many generations of breeding have made them what must be the most diverse species upon Earth . |
| 4 | Burger leaned forward quickly and , lowering his voice , said : ‘ Returning to our earlier subject , Garland half believed himself to be impotent he probably was , but he was obsessed by that damned girl he married and although she was good to look at , that was all — she was an immoral woman ! |
| 5 | Returning to our earlier theme , we notice there is a tradeoff for shareholders ' representatives in employing a manager . |
| 6 | But first , we 're returning to our top story . |
| 7 | We were numb ; we did n't want to speak for fear of returning to our banal selves again . |
| 8 | Returning to our historical outline and intimately connected with this new notion of female impurity , was the development of an increased rigidity in attitude toward and definition of function within the family group — something which had gradually been happening before the sixth century but which was accelerated and refined by the experience of the exile . |
| 9 | John and I returned to our new home , but it was difficult , at first , to take any pleasure in the place ( the vast skylight , for example ) , Tod 's state being what it was . |
| 10 | When we returned to our gentrified cow-flop that afternoon everything seemed tawdry , vulgar and second-rate . |
| 11 | When we returned to our own chamber , I turned drunkenly on Benjamin . |
| 12 | With this rather crude model of chemical reactions , we can return to our first question : why do only certain particular reactions occur in cells ? |
| 13 | Our materials were used , were not liked , and were soon discarded , and having once relinquished the courses we had developed , and involved our time and our energies elsewhere , we could not return to our earlier situation . |
| 14 | But this is an illusion ; and as the boat sets off again , we return to our normal activity : scurrying from one telescope to another , seeing the sharpness fade in one , waiting for the blur to clear in another . |
| 15 | We should file our record , send copies to the sheriff , go back and tell Chief Justice Fortescue that whatever secret Springall had died with him , and then return to our normal business . ’ |
| 16 | We therefore return to our original view . |
| 17 | The unity of the theme is at stake , so that after a period of change it is inevitable that we return to our original discourse . |
| 18 | In Czechoslovakia , we now have two resorts , we return to our popular holiday centre just outside the historic city of Brno and also to Roznov near the Beskydy mountains . |
| 19 | Rejoice that we return to our holy fortress . |
| 20 | The civil servants ensured that our drafts were the ones that eventually went into the Statutes , so we were able to return to our second Report . |
| 21 | Alas , we always had to return to our cobbled back lanes . |
| 22 | To return to our primeval replicators , while most miscopyings probably resulted in diminished copying effectiveness , or total loss of the self-copying property , a few might actually have turned out to be better at self-replication than the parent replicator that gave rise to them . |
| 23 | To return to our earlier example , a consequence of this is that it will not be possible to claim on valid grounds that " Men exist " or rather " actually exist " , reduces to , and can be replaced tout court by " ( Ex ) x is a man . |
| 24 | This is vital if we are to continue to lose weight and inches at a satisfactory rate , and essential if we are not to return to our previous shape . |
| 25 | To return to our marine theme , fish living in Minamata Bay in Japan in the 1950s accumulated mercury , discharged from a nearby chemical plant . |
| 26 | But to return to our historical account , as if the picture was not already complicated enough , the Ministry of Education found its own way of promoting drama — to align it with Physical Education , a policy which was gradually put forward by certain Inspectors for Physical Education over a period of 20 years from about 1945 . |