Example sentences of "the [noun sg] end all " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your leading article ‘ Deadly potential of the terraces ’ ( Echo February 29 ) , on the campaign to end all standing in our football grounds , is to be applauded for its common sense . |
| 2 | The funeral to end all funerals . |
| 3 | After the First World War — the war to end all wars — hopes of a better world had rested upon the creation of the League of Nations , headed by the United States . |
| 4 | Humiliating and unrealistic conditions should set off an alarm in the coalition 's collective head : they carry echoes from 1919 of Versailles , the treaty that ended ‘ the war to end all wars ’ and brought Europe , and the world , a new era of instability . |
| 5 | ‘ Is this the war to end all wars ? ’ he asks . |
| 6 | Ex-servicemen and their families were not getting any benefits from ‘ the war to end all wars ’ . |
| 7 | Tolkien himself fought in ‘ the war to end all wars ’ , but saw his sons fighting in the one after that . |
| 8 | The war to end all wars would have far-reaching effects on Crawford 's New Zealand cricket career . |
| 9 | Talk within the institution was of having fought ‘ the war to end all wars ’ . |
| 10 | Politicians fueled rather than played down the belief that Britain should become , in the words of one politician , " a land fit for heroes " once " the war to end all wars " was won — in other words , that provision should be made for those who had fought for King and Country . |
| 11 | He had surely taken part in the war to end all wars . |
| 12 | It was the cathedral to end all cathedrals . |
| 13 | When Peter got it so resoundingly wrong at Caesarea Philippi in telling Jesus not to go to Jerusalem under any circumstances , he received the rebuke to end all rebukes : ‘ Out of my sight , Satan ! ’ |
| 14 | Even so , calls for a general strike to force the Government to end all support for intervention were heavily defeated at the Labour Party Conference in June . |
| 15 | The plot concerns a strategy conceived and agreed by the women of the world to end all wars . |
| 16 | The pageant to end all pageants . |
| 17 | San Jose , California-based ULSI Systems Inc has settled its patent and trade secret lawsuits with Intel Corp , and ULSI says that the agreement ends all attempts by Intel Corp to restrain ULSI from selling its maths co-processors . |