Example sentences of "returned [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Returns : Any product purchased from MiLAn may be returned for a full refund , less shipping and handling charges , within 30 days of the original factory shipment date . |
| 2 | Some days Ariel carried the hooped Sycorax on her back ( she would not ride on anyone else ) down to the shore and into the water , and held her up under the arms so that she could let her contorted frame float free ; small currents spun in the water as if to ease her , and the sky 's blue height seemed to catch them up into its soft vastness and give them fins and wings to fly and swoop , so that they both felt airier and brighter than they had since their freedom had come to an end , and the memory of their former peace returned for a space . |
| 3 | In 1987 the Conservative Party was returned for a third term . |
| 4 | John Richmond , of MCMS at Torness , recently returned for a year at Kozloduy NPP in Bulgaria where he was Engineer responsible for Requalification Testing with the WANO team . |
| 5 | Unexpected syntactic categories may be returned for a string . |
| 6 | So , when the riding party of teenage girls returned for a late lunch , Lucy forced herself to present time with a brightly smiling face . |
| 7 | If by some mischance the Government are returned for a fourth term , I should be surprised if child benefit survives to the end of their term . |
| 8 | The President is elected for a five-year term by universal adult suffrage ; Moi was returned for a third five-year term in February 1988 [ see p. 36137 ] without recourse to the electorate , having been proposed as sole candidate by KANU . |
| 9 | Elections were last held in August 1987 [ see p. 35490 ] , when the ruling coalition was returned for a further term of office . |
| 10 | The Dominica Freedom Party ( DFP ) , which came to power in 1980 , was narrowly returned for a third term in May 1990 , winning 11 seats . |
| 11 | Turnout was in the region of 30 to 35 per cent of the 4,700,000 electorate , less than had voted in October 's presidential elections in which President Félix Houphouët-Boigny , Africa 's longest-serving head of state , was returned for a seventh five-year term [ see p. 37767 ] . |
| 12 | The Democratic Labour Party ( DLP ) government of Prime Minister Erskine Sandiford was returned for a second five-year term at a general election on Jan. 22 . |
| 13 | The President is elected for a five-year term by universal adult suffrage ; Daniel arap Moi was returned for a third five-year term as President in February 1988 [ see p. 36137 ] without recourse to the electorate , having been proposed as sole candidate by the Kenya African National Union ( KANU ) , the sole legal party . |
| 14 | The DFP was narrowly returned for a third term in May 1990 , winning 11 of the elective seats [ see pp. 37448 ; 37527 ] . |
| 15 | In the general election of March 1990 the ALP was narrowly returned for a fourth successive term [ see pp. 37320-21 ; for final Senate results see p. 37876 ] . |
| 16 | Geaga stood unsuccessfully on June 8 against the incumbent leader of the Phalangist Party ( also called the Ktaeb ) , George Saadeh , who was returned for a third term as party president . |
| 17 | Going Rates In recent years most SCE entrants have attained grades A , A , A , B , B or better and have returned for a sixth year at school . |
| 18 | June 1991 , 11 council representatives , seven of them unionist , attended the Somme anniversary pilgrimage November 1991 two representatives returned for a four day visit Mr Bailie was not available for comment . |
| 19 | THE new television advertisement for the Volkswagen Golf shows a car being dropped , removed and returned as a cube of twisted metal — to prove that it is recyclable . |
| 20 | Usually , the fund buys your existing premises , or new premises for you , and you pay rent into the fund ( returned as a pension later ) . |
| 21 | Chief Officer Mason left as a Corporal motor-cyclist in 1914 and returned as a Major in 1919 . |
| 22 | Commentators say she went out to Australia and New Zealand as a girl , and returned as a woman . |
| 23 | The tax should then be returned as a subsidy on all recycling and all proper rubbish disposal , leaving a tax only on illicit dumping . |
| 24 | Only one Coventry man was returned as a clothier , but an exceptional weaver valued at £40 must have qualified as one in all essentials . |
| 25 | As one of these was the lord of the manor and another the vicar , only one in fifteen of the ‘ ordinary ’ folk was returned as a freeholder : two husbandmen and a woman who looks like the widow of a yeoman or maybe a minor gentleman . |
| 26 | His career at the School had started at Greek Street as a boy in 1915 and continued until 1924 ; he had returned as a master in 1942 to teach PE and Mathematics in the Senior School , and Nature Study in the Junior School . |
| 27 | His great virtue was that he did not rely on a single visit , but frequently returned after a period of years and was able to comment on progress — or lack of it — and the way in which new legislation was being implemented . |
| 28 | In the wake of the riots , while denouncing all sorts of ‘ sentiment , wishful-thinking and humbug ’ , The Daily Mail also saw fit to editorialise on the black community who , it was said , ‘ must bear no small responsibility for the fear of the mob that has now returned after a century or more to haunt the cities of this land ’ . |
| 29 | He had just returned after a 3-day affair with another woman which had brought on the crisis . |
| 30 | MEMBERS of the 85-strong Western Youth Orchestra have returned after a two-week tour of Canada and the United States , marking their 21st anniversary . |