Example sentences of "[was/were] return to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | Does my right hon. Friend agree also that the last Labour Government introduced such swingeing real cuts in the health service that , if they were returned to power , it would represent a real threat to those who require advanced orthopaedic treatment ? |
| 33 | In a general election in June 1989 [ see pp. 36739-40 ] the Christian Social Party ( PCS ) and the Socialists , which had governed in coalition since June 1984 [ see p. 33298 ] , were returned to power . |
| 34 | The Prime Minister 's own majority in his constituency increased by more than 12,000 , and all the outgoing government ministers were returned to power except the Minister of Defence , Tengku Ahmad Rithauddeen , and the Minister of Science , Technology and Environment , Datuk Amar Stephen Yong . |
| 35 | However , these latest elections confirmed the existing schism between republics : the ruling communists were rejected in favour of nationalist parties in Bosnia-Hercegovina and Macedonia ( as in Slovenia and Croatia in April ) , but in Serbia ( with over 40 per cent of the country 's population ) and Montenegro the communists were returned to power with huge majorities . |
| 36 | The last general election was in June 1989 when the Christian Social Party and the Socialists , which had governed in coalition since July 1984 , were returned to power [ see pp. 36739-40 ] . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | Asia Watch , the US-based human rights group , had been quoted as saying the previous week that 133 members of the Nung ethnic group held in Hong Kong refugee camps faced persecution if they were returned to Vietnam . |
| 39 | Detective Constable Woodley was cleared of suspicion and he and Clifford were returned to duty . |
| 40 | A Hungarian government spokesman has warned that they would probably be killed at the airport if they were returned to Mongolia . |
| 41 | The remains of the Argentine dictator ( 1829-52 ) and nationalist figurehead , Juan Manuel de Rosas , who died in exile in the UK in 1877 , were returned to Argentina on Oct. 1 , 1989 , in what was apparently a gesture of goodwill in the context of talks over the Falkland Islands . |
| 42 | Seismic data were returned to Earth over a period of a few years from these five stations , though they were reduced to four when the Apollo 11 station stopped working . |
| 43 | It was only under President Carter 's administration that they were returned to Hungary , having been removed from the potential clutches of Germans and Russians in 1945 . |
| 44 | The remains of Cardinal Jozsef Mindszenty , the Roman Catholic Primate who had been imprisoned in 1949-56 and exiled in 1971 , were returned to Hungary from Mariazell in Austria and reinterred on May 4 at Esztergom , 16 years after his death . |
| 45 | Despite presiding over large-scale unemployment the Conservatives were returned to office by huge majorities . |
| 46 | Edward Heath , in his first speech to a Conservative party conference as Prime Minister in 1970 , claimed : ‘ We were returned to office to change the course and the history of this nation — nothing less . ’ |
| 47 | That would have enabled us to announce in our manifesto that when we were returned to office at the election we would take the most sensible course of action . |
| 48 | Eventually Mk I Londons in RAF service were returned to Saro for updating to Mk II standard , while a first production batch of six London IIs ( K5980-K5913 ) was delivered during 1936/1937 of which five went straight to 204 Squadron at Mount Batten . |
| 49 | Crawford was paired with actress Frances Cuka , who had spent much of her career with the Royal Shakespeare Company and was returning to Britain after playing Mrs Lenin in its Broadway production of Travesties . |
| 50 | MISS Whiplash yesterday announced in a letter she was returning to Britain to stand as Corrective Party candidate in the Newbury by-election . |
| 51 | While the secret garden was returning to life , a man with high , crooked shoulders was wandering round the most beautiful places in Europe . |
| 52 | However , a report of July 29 said that the Armenian delegation was returning to Rome . |
| 53 | After all , she was returning to competition for the first time in five years . |
| 54 | ( 3 September 1778 ) Mozart made it quite clear to his father that the only reason he was returning to Salzburg was to be with him : |
| 55 | A popular legend tells of Arion , a lyric poet and musician , who was returning to Greece from Italy , laden with riches he had won at music competitions . |
| 56 | While Little Weirwold was returning to normality , events in the larger world continued to escalate . |
| 57 | In November 1989 , Coleman reluctantly agreed to resign his commission with the Boy Scouts of America , giving as his reason that he was returning to journalism with a job in Germany . |
| 58 | Only later did I wonder why it had been so important to tell Helmut I was returning to London . |
| 59 | I was returning to London . |
| 60 | When Mr Steen rang on Friday afternoon to say he was n't certain whether or not he was returning to London at the weekend , she had checked the petrol in the car in case he might want it . |