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 .
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