Example sentences of "[prep] be returned to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cars supplied for hire or purchase can be adapted to suit the needs of the individual , but the types of adaptation that can be made to hire cars is more restricted because they have to be returned to the general market at the end of the hire period . |
| 2 | He was asked if he had known about the attrocities committed under Stalin in the 1930s , and whether he would have liked to be returned to the Soviet Union labelled traitor at the end of the war . |
| 3 | ‘ I would n't have liked to be returned to Britain at the end of the war labelled ‘ traitor ’ , ' he said . |
| 4 | NEWCASTLE United yesterday sent a written offer to Celtic for Roy Aitken reportedly so low that it is likely to be returned to St James ' Park unopened . |
| 5 | If he keeps his promise , his land is to be returned to him ; if not , it is to belong to the creditor for ever . |
| 6 | Brightness 's destiny — so we were informed — was to be returned to prison where she will have to perform mindless tricks for the entertainment of rouble-paying humans . |
| 7 | He paraded with Generals Howard and Miles in New York during the dedication of Grant 's Tomb , and appealed once more to be returned to his Wallowa home . |
| 8 | I wonder if you could arrange for these to be returned to us for signature by the Press ? |
| 9 | I refer to my letter to you of 18 May last , in which I explained that the Agreement that you had signed for the above tape had not been signed on behalf of Oxford University Press , and that the duplicate copy which you had retained for your records needed to be returned to us for signature in Oxford before I could despatch your copy of the tape to you . |
| 10 | ‘ Those who are to be returned to unit as unsuitable can come overland together with those who will be required to form a second squadron to operate in a later phase . ’ |
| 11 | Select the text to be returned to the default character format |
| 12 | Select the paragraph(s) displayed in a new format which are to be returned to the original format |
| 13 | Select ( highlight ) the paragraph(s) to be returned to the default style ( ie the fully blocked style ) |
| 14 | The full amount of your initial investment plus bonuses is guaranteed to be returned to you on completion of the five year term — and of course you could see a healthy return on your investment due to stock market growth during this time . |
| 15 | The ice sublimed away , leaving the books , dry and undamaged , to be returned to Sudbury . |
| 16 | Such dreams were defeated by the means she 'd first thought would make it possible for her baby to be returned to her . |
| 17 | She was a woman in need of a child to love , and having none of her own she was lavishing it all on Corrie Palmer , which was sad because in another year she would have to be returned to the hospital . |
| 18 | Sarah refused to think about the inevitable separation from Corrie when it was time for her to be returned to the Foundling Hospital . |
| 19 | ‘ You know all Foundling children have to be returned to the hospital . |
| 20 | The company should organise to pick it up or pay for it to be returned to them . |
| 21 | I endorsed them to be returned to you , should a shark eat me . |
| 22 | He is expected to be returned to his family . |
| 23 | Five of the 50 cartons were damaged and had to be returned to a workshop in Essex for repair . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Application forms to be returned to the Tate Gallery no later than 19 March . |
| 26 | It entered a private collection but was ordered to be returned to the Nationalgalerie by the Soviet military administration in 1949 . |
| 27 | If the Problem of holism is to be returned to the world of social science , this gulf must be overcome . |
| 28 | Perhaps more important for data interpretation , the nitric acid is believed to be returned to the gas phase , and is therefore measurable using ground-based FTIR techniques , unlike heterogeneous reactions on polar stratospheric cloud surfaces in the Antarctic spring where HNO 3 can be sequestered in the solid phase . |
| 29 | However , at 4.50pm the foreman announced the jury was irrevocably split and the judge ordered Kearney to be returned to custody pending a retrial , on a date to be announced . |
| 30 | It frequently occurs that goods have to be returned to suppliers for various reasons , e.g. damaged or defective goods . |