Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] put a [noun] to " in BNC.
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1 | So that when want numbers of non-directed peasants began to spill out of the disaster areas in the early summer of 1921 , the Central Committee of the Communist Party ordered its guberniia counterparts to put a stop to migration ‘ since the flight of the peasants … will ruin entirely our economic life ’ . |
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 Communist party had kicked out most reformers after Warsaw Pact tanks put an end to the Prague Spring in 1968 . |
4 | The Second World War put an end to this age as surely as the First World War began it . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | Wolski survived because his brother Avram put a hand to his back and despite his father 's protests pushed him forward from the line when the Germans said they wanted shoemakers and tailors . |
7 | But after 1892 animal disease legislation put an end to the importation of European livestock . |