Example sentences of "the return to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It moved from hope as high as heaven and a garden bright with love through unutterable sadness , loss , and then violence , to the return to Chaos in the Flood . |
| 2 | Nor was Keynes prompted by the return to gold at the prewar parity , for this event occurred after his campaign for ‘ national development ’ had begun . |
| 3 | But that summons to Bayreuth in 1939 cost her dearly — the return to work in Paris , the accusations of collaboration , the suicide of her son . |
| 4 | The ‘ domino effect ’ was only partly successful , however , and this was very substantially responsible for both the course of the dispute and the lack of any final outcome , other than the return to work in March , 1985 . |
| 5 | The prime reason for bringing in a new constitution in 1937 was the return to dominance of the republican grouping , the side which had lost the civil war , and which had retained the intention of establishing a republic . |
| 6 | The pie was made to celebrate the bicentenary of the first pie , which was baked in 1788 to celebrate the return to sanity of George Ill . |
| 7 | What the country got instead was the return to normality with all its faults ; and a general election . |
| 8 | The return to action of the highly regarded John Rae Collective should have launched the concert in style , but they were decidedly lacklustre after an extended layoff , and showed only occasional flashes of the energy and invention which made them Scotland 's best and most creative jazz outfit . |
| 9 | France decided not to rely upon either the Americans or the perfidious British — a reaction which was strengthened by the return to power of Charles de Gaulle ( May 1958 ) . |
| 10 | According to Hun Sen , the government , while accepting most of the plan , wanted it to include " concrete measures " to prevent the return to power of the " genocidal " Pol Pot regime ( the Khmer Rouge regime of 1976-79 ) . |
| 11 | He welcomed the return to power of Soviet President Gorbachev . |
| 12 | A general election held in June 1987 resulted in the return to power of a coalition government led by Paias Wingti , but this was defeated in a parliamentary vote of no confidence on July 4 , 1988 , and replaced by a coalition led by Namaliu . |
| 13 | The SOC Deputy Foreign Minister Sok An said that the US move would contribute to preventing the return to power of the Khmers Rouges and would raise living standards . |
| 14 | In September 1991 , after the banning of the republican Communist Party , Ikramov had ordered the removal of Lenin 's statue in Dushanbe — a controversial order which appeared to precipitate the return to power of the majority communist faction in the Supreme Soviet [ see p. 38418 ] . |
| 15 | The latest development prompted widespread speculation that the army intended to supervise fresh elections which could favour the return to power of Benazir Bhutto , leader of the Pakistan People 's Party ( PPP ) . |
| 16 | ‘ We are talking about the return to power of the Communist nomenklatura ( party elite ) , ’ Mr Kostikov said later in an interview with Russian and Reuter television , ‘ … that very nomenklatura which fell with such a thunderous crash in August 1991 . ’ |
| 17 | Many of the significant trends in Spanish art over the last ten years are represented : the return to expressionism of Sicilia , Sevilla and Barcelo , the lyrical style of Campano and Broto , the monumental sculpture of Susana Solano and the geometrical works of Sergi Aguilar , not forgetting the surrealist objects of Pepe Espaliu and the metaphysical inspiration of Dis Berlin . |
| 18 | ‘ The coming of age of [ political ] democracy in our society ’ was , in the event , marked in 1979 not by the return to office of the Labour Government which had written the terms of reference for the Bullock Committee , and to which the trade union movement might look for the advancement of industrial democracy as the movement had specified it . |
| 19 | But they have their own good news with the return to fitness of the GB forward Hugh Waddell , out with a broken jaw since November , and David Creasser , who has played only once this season . |
| 20 | Mervyn Cawston , 41 , keeps his place in goal despite the return to fitness of Kevin Foster and O'Sullivan is also pleased with the recent form of converted centre-back Kurt Davidson . |
| 21 | SCOTLAND manager Andy Roxburgh has welcomed the return to fitness of Middlesbrough midfielder Willie Falconer . |