Example sentences of "it [be] returned to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His difficulty is that his party has nothing to tell him about what it would spend if it were returned to power , which it will not be . |
| 2 | Given Labour 's stormy internal debates on foreign and defence issues since 1951 and despite the recent defeat of the unilateralists on nuclear disarmament , Washington was understandably anxious to gain some advance impressions of Labour 's likely behaviour if it were returned to power . |
| 3 | I can say unequivocally and without a shadow of doubt that the Conservative party has no intention whatever , when it is returned to office , to means test the basic retirement pension . |
| 4 | It had been the property of Mrs Stratton 's first husband , and it was he who had expressed the wish , as stated in his will , that it be returned to England to find a permanent place in the Ashmolean Museum with its counterpart , the Wolvercote Buckle . |
| 5 | In 1815 it was returned to Antwerp and placed in the huge Gothic Cathedral of Our Lady , where it has remained ever since . |
| 6 | An early aircraft it was returned to Boeing at Everett for structural testing to destruction on April 5 , 1988 and the Science Museum were lucky enough to secure a cross section , including the upper deck . |
| 7 | It was returned to office in May 1929 with 287 seats to the Conservatives ' 261 and the Liberals ' 59 . |
| 8 | In the general election of June 1984 the People 's Action Movement ( PAM ) won six of the 11 elected seats in the National Assembly ; it was returned to power in March 1989 . |
| 9 | The Conservative Party made net gains of 308 seats in local elections held on May 7 for over 3,800 seats on 207 local district councils in England , Scotland and Wales , only one month after the general election in which it was returned to power for a fourth term [ see pp. 38868-69 ] . |