Example sentences of "[noun sg] ended with the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Rowlands 's search ended with the discovery of his surviving grandfather , a ‘ severe and sour old man ’ who lived with two of Rowlands 's aunts in an old Welsh farmhouse . |
| 2 | The ceremony ended with the release of balloons each carrying a message to the people of Gloucestershire to support their libraries . |
| 3 | The church ceremony ended with the bride and groom going out to Tina Turner 's ‘ Simply the Best ’ . |
| 4 | The experiment did not last , and della Torre rule ended with the family defeat by the Viscontis at the battle of Desio in 1277 . |
| 5 | In Nicaragua a lengthy civil war against the Somoza dictatorship ended with the victory of the Sandinista Liberation Front in 1979 . |
| 6 | The episode ended with the appointment of a committee of inquiry , a device several times used by governments as a way of legitimating particular criteria of pay determination and hence avoiding industrial conflict . |
| 7 | The dream ended with the thought that if I had known this was the main road I need not have resorted to the acrobatics that had brought me there . |
| 8 | These sporting contests between the house and the village ended with the arrival of a character who could have been dreamt up by central casting . |
| 9 | This session ended with the Head of Department visibly upset by the criticisms over output , particularly homework , and it was decided that an extra session should be arranged in order further to explore issues in evaluation and assessment . |
| 10 | But most of us would probably say that the Edwardian Era ended with the bullets that Gavrilo Princip fired into the body of Arch-duke Ferdinand on the 28th June 1914 . |
| 11 | The meeting ended with the questions of recognition for the HCS and acceptance of the political bureau 's resignation unresolved , pending a further session the following month . |
| 12 | In 323–4 civil war ended with the elimination of Licinius , and Constantine was at last sole ruler . |
| 13 | Had the war ended with the collapse of Madrid in November 1936 , the Nationalists would have had considerable difficulty in improvising the governmental and administrative apparatus necessary to sustain a new regime . |
| 14 | The conference ended with the USA and Japan pledging over US$500 million in new aid . |
| 15 | Neil Kinnock takes time away from the platform limelight yesterday , disappearing backstage before the Labour conference ended with the party in a buoyant mood |
| 16 | When Robson was appointed England manager in 1982 he was succeeded at Portman Road by Ferguson , whose four years in charge ended with the club 's relegation to the Second Division . |
| 17 | The decade ended with the railway hotels not merely privatised but in many cases under second and third owners , generally poorer in standard and distinctly without the nation having benefited ( since they ran at a profit anyway ) , with Travellers-Fare privatised and healthier ( both profitwise and in what they served ) , and with InterCity rethinking the role of the restaurant car and with many chefs still preparing meals on board . |
| 18 | The decade ended with the retirement of the Chairman , by then Canon Mackenzie , after thirteen crucial years in office . |
| 19 | The day ended with the Eucharist celebrated by Fr. with music provided by Sr. FCJ . |
| 20 | LENNOX LEWIS 'S first day as WBC champion ended with the prospect of a £10 million all-British heavyweight showdown with Frank Bruno moving a shade nearer last night . |
| 21 | Altogether appropriately and ingloriously , the frame ended with the Barometer 's in-off the black , the ball lasering in on the middle pocket at a preposterous angle . |
| 22 | He also collected natural history curiosities and plants before the appointment ended with the Duke 's death . |
| 23 | The affair ended with the child 's birth and Murphy returned to the USA . |
| 24 | Moreover , in China there was nothing corresponding to the secularization of history in Europe after the domination of the Church ended with the Renaissance and Reformation . |
| 25 | A decade of success ended with the problems of recession — a world recession . |
| 26 | The proceedings featured acrimonious debate , but the congress ended with the endorsement of a reformist manifesto , albeit affirming that the party would remain Marxist rather than go the social democratic way of other former ruling East European communist parties as they prepared , like the BCP , to compete in free elections . |
| 27 | The report ended with the defence telling the jury it would be very dangerous to record a conviction on the uncorroborated evidence of the girl . |
| 28 | The report ended with the information that the judge had told the jury that it would be very dangerous to record a conviction without independent support for the girl 's story . |
| 29 | In Barcelona active resistance ended with the plot of May 1809 : when the French Government looked stable , theatres opened , social life picked up , and some of the émigrés returned . |
| 30 | On Tuesday , a libel action brought by Mrs Bauwens against The People newspaper over its story about the holiday ended with the jury deadlocked . |