Example sentences of "be returned to [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The approach in this chapter will be largely ahistorical and asocial , focusing on the properties of things in themselves , while in chapter 7 the artefact will be returned to its historical context in order to examine how its various potential social attributes are actually realized in diverse circumstances . |
| 2 | Like me , you know the Abbe Gerard was murdered , and you are looking for that book , a gift from our royal master which , by rights , should now be returned to its proper owner . ’ |
| 3 | Metal hardened by deformation can be returned to its initial soft condition by ‘ annealing ’ , that is to say by heating it until total or partial recrystallization occurs , in which case most of the excess dislocations vanish . |
| 4 | When it was loaned for ‘ The Treasure Houses of Britain' exhibition in Washington , it was assumed that , like all the other works of art on show , it would be returned to its original setting . |
| 5 | The cursor will be returned to its original size and moved to a point just outside where the highlight had been depending on the key tapped . |
| 6 | On each jubilee year all land would be returned to its original owner . |
| 7 | The principle which underlay the concept of Jubilee , ( that all land alienated during the preceding fifty years was to be returned to its original owner or his descendants ) was that each family should not find itself in a position in which it was permanently barred from owning land , the vital productive asset in that economy . |
| 8 | The tape should be returned to its original position in the rack . |
| 9 | The tape should be returned to its original position in the rack . |
| 10 | 3 Stock should be arranged neatly in drawers or on shelves 5 When goods have been taken out ( eg to be shown to a customer ) they should be returned to their correct storage place . |
| 11 | Gaps in numerical sequences may be identified and samples lacking clear labels may at this stage be returned to their correct sequential position . |
| 12 | In this event sites from which they were removed could be returned to their former use as agricultural land , or left to return to a natural condition , without serious difficulty . |
| 13 | As the preceding paragraphs have shown , child care is , until the Children Bill becomes law in the early 1990s , based on the Child Care Act 1980 , under which one major duty of the local authorities is to receive children into care and provide them with adequate substitute homes unless or until they can be returned to their natural parents . |
| 14 | The KPP argument made sense , but they compromised this position by claiming that the Ukrainian and Silesian territories seized in the first years of independence should also be returned to their respective ‘ owners ’ . |
| 15 | Whilst Rowe and Lambert took exception to the then prevailing view that children should , and more important could , be returned to their own families , they were strongly committed to family care as the main form of substitute care for those children who could not return home . |
| 16 | The presidential agreement specified that properties unjustly confiscated be returned to their rightful owners , or the owners be compensated if this was no longer possible . |
| 17 | The first was to incorporate the Gaza Strip into Israel , including its refugee population who might possibly be returned to their original villages . |
| 18 | Colin Campbell , to whom Lord Milton directed his inquiry about the removal of Main , insisted that the watchman could be returned to his former station , and that his temporary appointment as a tidesman was not a punishment , but a favour . |
| 19 | He wanted to be returned to his own time . |