Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [verb] a end to " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The uncertainty principle signaled an end to Laplace 's dream of a theory of science , a model of the universe that would be completely deterministic : one certainly can not predict future events exactly if one can not even measure the present state of the universe precisely ! |
| 2 | " The ceremonies taught us by the Chinese emperors ceased to be celebrated fourteen years ago in China itself when the revolution of Sun Yat-sen put an end to the Manchu dynasty . |
| 3 | The AAA tried during the winter months to bring an end to the hostility between Frank Dick and me . |
| 4 | The Communist party had kicked out most reformers after Warsaw Pact tanks put an end to the Prague Spring in 1968 . |
| 5 | The retirement condition encouraged an end to workforce participation on a massive scale and established arbitrary ages as the customary retirement ages . |
| 6 | To cause minimum inconvenience to the locals , the flight commander calls an end to the tactical phase of the exercise and we begin a climb from What is colloquially known as the ‘ weedosphere ’ up to the dizzy height of 1,000 feet . |
| 7 | In her inaugural address Chamorro announced an end to military conscription ; plans to reduce state bureaucracy , strength of the Army and the size of the defence budgets ; the recognition of titles to land redistributed under the previous Sandinista government ; and a thorough review of economic policy . |
| 8 | Once he had settled into the right-back position he was impossible to move from the Palace first team ( unless illness or injury intervened , and the career chart shows that there was only one season when that happened to any serious degree ) , and he appeared there regularly until the 1st World War brought an end to competitive football and threw everyone 's affairs into confusion . |
| 9 | Joshua ( nicknamed ‘ Joe ’ by the Palace fans ) Johnson was our club 's goalkeeper from early December 1907 until the 1st World War brought an end to competitive football in 1915 . |
| 10 | The Second World War put an end to this age as surely as the First World War began it . |
| 11 | Food Reform promised an end to sickness if certain procedures were followed , a promise that was not , of course , fulfilled . |
| 12 | Early in the nineteenth century the Devon was shipped to Tasmania and was exported to mainland Australia at intervals during the century until health restrictions put an end to imports . |
| 13 | BROADCASTERS are warning that a deal struck between the BBC , the Musicians ' Union and the actors ' union , Equity , on the sale of video-recordings of TV programme mean an end to the release of minority interest programmes , like science documentaries , on video-tape or disc . |
| 14 | In a further indication of the desire among party members to see an end to the public attacks , David Clark , the convener of Motherwell North SNP — which includes the Mossend branch — called on the party to unite and concentrate its attacks on the Conservatives and Labour . |
| 15 | But after 1892 animal disease legislation put an end to the importation of European livestock . |