Example sentences of "[noun sg] return to [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A military transport aircraft , with 12 crew and 120 soldiers on board returning to Bandung after a parade , caught fire and crashed minutes after take-off in a Jakarta suburb , killing all those on board and a guard at a government training centre .
2 10.2 Prior to an employee returning to work in these circumstances , the Director of Social Work will also consider :
3 Conti plays a disgraced MI5 agent returning to Britain from his adopted Russia and forced to team up with an old espionage adversary ( John Standing ) — but who is spying on whom ?
4 After commissioning a script from Buckaroo Banzai 's Earl McGroush and scouting locations , they quietly returned to their previous existence as bellhops , allowing Neuromancer to return to Gibson 's agent , where it attracts continual interest , notably from Robin Williams and a desperate Bruce Willis .
5 I feel it needs a few points tidied up such as data entry checking , i.e. only allowing a maximum of 8 characters to be typed into a date field and being able to press Esc to return to menu at any time during data entry .
6 Yesterday , the management threatened to issue dismissal notices to the 300 out of the 400 workforce , and about 200 demonstrated at the locked factory gates in an attempt to return to work .
7 But Kelly insists Taylor will be allowed to complete his attempt to return to America for next summer 's finals from the three final qualifying games against Poland , Holland and San Marino next autumn .
8 It was then still dark , and knowing I had a full day 's motoring ahead of me , I made an attempt to return to sleep .
9 In the last few years , cars have been banned from parking in the central areas , and seats and plants have appeared in an attempt to return to tradition .
10 Although his attitude towards the French seemed to change somewhat before he died , Roosevelt had effectively delayed the French in their attempt to return to Indochina .
11 Following this unsuccessful attempt to return to Kidderminster , Richard Baxter spent the rest of his life in and around London .
12 He had recovered sufficiently by the spring to return to sea as flag-captain in the Resolution under Generals Richard Deane and George Monck [ qq.v. ] , and took part in the major actions off the Gabbard in June and the Texel in July .
13 In early 1990 Chatichai had allowed Manoon to return to Thailand from exile and had appointed him to a high-level post within the Defence Ministry .
14 Ipswich 's next meeting is on Good Friday and Zdenek Tesar has taken the opportunity of the break to return to Czechoslovakia to see his wife and daughter and do some cross country skiing near his mountain home .
15 Individuals returning to practice also face a personal challenge and have their own needs for support and encouragement so that their important transition from a break to return to practice is assisted .
16 I was glad that in the course of the night of 8/9 October it became clear that it would not be necessary to trouble Your Majesty to return to London .
17 I do not anticipate that these will be on a very substantial scale and I do not see any reason why it should be necessary to ask Your Majesty to return to London prematurely .
18 For example , a failure to allow a woman employee to return to work after maternity leave is treated as a dismissal , with the termination date being the date notified by her as the date of return .
19 Chihana , general secretary of the Southern African Trade Union Co-ordination Council ( SATUCC ) , who had announced his intention to return to Malawi to arrange a national conference of " democratic forces " [ see also p. 38804 ] , was arrested on his arrival at Lilongwe airport on April 6 .
20 In 1808 Beresford and half the force returned to Lisbon .
21 Hun Sen and his delegation returned to China for a visit on July 22-24 .
22 On the following day Trussell renounced homage ‘ on behalf of the whole kingdom ’ , and the delegation returned to London to announce the abdication .
23 A multiparty parliamentary delegation returned to Nepal on June 13 after an 11-day visit to China which participants described as " successful " .
24 Soon after Labour returned to power in 1964 .
25 Mill Reef returned to Longchamp the following spring to notch up a ten-length victory in the Prix Ganay , but after a lacklustre display when beating Homeric a neck in the Coronation Cup at Epsom he did not race again : he was being prepared for a second Arc when on 30 August 1972 he fractured a foreleg on the gallops , and was retired to stud .
26 And speedway action returns to Oxford tonight as the Cheetahs try to takes the sting out of the Coventry Bees for the second time in a week .
27 Before the action returns to Troy , Shakespeare introduces the audience to Thersites , a character previously described by Nestor as , ‘ A slave whose gall coins slanders like a mint ’ .
28 FA CUP semi-final football returned to Hillsborough yesterday with a smile on its face and without a hint of serious crowd trouble .
29 After 8 April the aluminium returned to tapwater when a mains burst : sludge was found at the bottom of a glass of water but when it was sent to the authority for analysis it was discarded as ‘ too sludgy ’ .
30 Qu and Zhuang returned to China on Aug. 23 and the following day the 11 fishermen and their boat returned to Xiamen , Fujian province .
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