Example sentences of "return to the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PENNY HASSET * , who showed marked improvement when encountering heavy ground for the first time at Wolverhampton recently , should make the most of similar conditions on her return to the course for today 's Daffodil Handicap ( 5.0 ) . |
| 2 | Beneficial 's half-brother Jeune , last year 's Predominate winner , can make a winning return to the course in the Festival Stakes . |
| 3 | In a return to the system of price controls which had been abandoned in 1990 , sector-wide increases would be decided by union , business and government representatives . |
| 4 | The latter , now Protector Somerset , secured Markham 's return to the Parliament of 1547 . |
| 5 | Sackville took him into his own service as secretary , and secured his return to the Parliament of 1601 for the Sussex borough of Steyning . |
| 6 | In particular , footballers are prone to Gilmore 's groin — Paul Barker and Bryan Robson have both made a successful return to the sport after the operation . |
| 7 | Barnes ' return to the Kop for the first time in seven months prompted a rapturous welcome worthy of the Messiah himself and every touch , every pin-point pass only served to enhance that adulation . |
| 8 | It is clear that Brooke-Rose does not propose a return to the hegemony of the printed word , and that her tale of the sabotage of communication technology is not merely the vengeful fantasy of a frustrated novelist . |
| 9 | At the same time , as with so much of the work at Oxford , it evidenced a return to the physicality of the body at the core of aesthetic experience . |
| 10 | Nobody wants a return to the instability of the inter-war period . |
| 11 | A significant minority of the zemstvos joined in liberal demands that the government return to the spirit of the Great Reforms , respect the independence of the courts and the freedom under the law of the press , and provide some means for public participation in framing legislation . |
| 12 | His assertion that postwar socialist realism has much to learn from the bourgeois tradition of critical realism marks paradoxically a return to the spirit of the intellectual climate in France in the 1930s when a general belief in the coincidence between the movement of history , socialism and realism led to a fruitful collaboration between the socialist realist writers of the French communist party , such as Aragon and Nizan , and sympathetic fellow-travellers such as Bloch , Malraux and Gide . |
| 13 | It is ironic that this dual aspiration , on the one hand , to give back autonomy to the socialist writer to produce works which balance the twin exigencies of socialist ideology and literary form , and on the other , to generate as a consequence a fuller , richer , more complex depiction of reality , marks , in fact , a return to the spirit of Nizan 's understanding of socialist realism in France in the 1930s . |
| 14 | THE RELEASE of this album , their first studio effort in three years , sees the return to the fray of Level 42 after a period punctuated by the tragic death of Alan Murphy , their lead guitarist , and a change of record labels to boot . |
| 15 | The undignified tussle over wages has been sourly described by one trade union leader as ‘ a return to the philosophy of the pig trough . ’ |
| 16 | In a deal signed at Pakistan 's Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources last month , LASMO Oil Pakistan [ LOPL ] assigned half of its working interest in its block 36 licence to Shell , marking the oil giant 's return to the country after nearly 10 years . |
| 17 | On a seller and buyer summons the court declared that the seller had not made a good title , and ordered the return to the buyer of the buyer 's deposit on the equitable principle that it is a seller 's duty to disclose fully and frankly in the contract any title defect . |
| 18 | THE shares of Quicks Group raced ahead 22 to 90p yesterday after the Manchester-based car distributor announced a return to the black in 1991 and that it was maintaining its dividend total at 3p , with a 2p final on July 10 . |
| 19 | To Europe 's governments , whatever they think about EMU , a return to the ERM of the 1980s looks a good way forward . |
| 20 | Only a return to the drug under control could have saved him . |
| 21 | This was a return to the test of outrage , with all its faults , but it met little outrage in Standing Committee and fell only because of the dissolution of Parliament for the 1987 General Election . |
| 22 | But he did n't like what he found — a student movement , influenced to some extent by the events in Europe , but calling for a return to the past in the shape of Juan Peron . |
| 23 | The issue of a leadership challenge made an immediate return to the top of the political agenda : the discontent in the parliamentary party that had been barely suppressed since the spring resurfaced with a vengeance . |
| 24 | If the Russians do arrive on this scale it will be the largest single wave of what Israelis call aliya ( literally ‘ ascent ’ ) since the immediate post independence years in the early 1950s , a heady return to the heart of the Zionist idea at a time when the country — still fighting the Palestinian uprising , on a permanent war footing and its economy slipping into recession — is far from ready . |
| 25 | It is a return to the capital for German-born Mr Nitschke , who was here from 1985–87 managing The Dorchester , where Regent had a management contract . |
| 26 | Some Conservatives , astonishingly enough , had even visualized the return to the Treasury of Roy Jenkins , a Labour minister until 1976 and now President of the European Commission in Brussels . |
| 27 | Third , it is far more difficult to calculate the economic return to the individual on investment in health services than is the case with education . |
| 28 | This will be followed by a further return to the mainline on September 12/13 for the ‘ Scottish Power ’ open weekend at Longannet Power Station when the loco may haul trains on the Dunfermline — Culross branch along the northern shore of the Firth of Forth opposite its home base at Bo'ness . |
| 29 | By the end , with an extended sermon on the emptiness of individualist ethics , he is pleading for a return to the benevolence in public affairs which Thatcher can not supply by nature of having been denied her mother 's breast , given the wrong sort of potty training , etc . |
| 30 | This seems to me retrogressive , and in some respects a return to the kind of thing I heard in my younger days in Oxford : ‘ One can not hope to understand A , unless one also knows about B , C , D , etc . ’ |