Example sentences of "draw to [art] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | It drew to an end in April 1964 with Mr Mandela 's four-hour speech from the dock , in which he defended the formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe and said he had done what he did for the ideal of a free and democratic society , ‘ an ideal for which I am prepared to die ’ . |
| 2 | Before the campaign opened the key influence on poll awareness was generalized interest in politics , but as the campaign drew to an end media use became more important , especially viewing BBC-TV news ( Table 7.5 ) . |
| 3 | Before the campaign opened the key influence on poll awareness was a generalized interest in politics , but as the campaign drew to an end television viewing became more important . |
| 4 | Macmillan , one of the wiliest politicians of his time , also said , with typical understatement , as the Fifties drew to an end : ‘ We have not done badly . |
| 5 | He used to long for his holidays and grow deeply depressed when they drew to an end . |
| 6 | As the Art Dealers Association of America 's annual Armory show drew to an end we talked to Gilbert Edelson , a founder member |
| 7 | ‘ My fortnight 's supposed leave drew to an end . |
| 8 | In Durham , as the Second World War drew to an end with the severe competition from returning ex-servicemen , there was only one choice : Durham University . |
| 9 | We are apparently being drawn to the end of time , to an apocalypse ( which will happen on 21/12/2012 ) at which point some of us will achieve a mystical transformation to a more enlightened realm of being . |
| 10 | But Enterprise Neptune has not drawn to an end with the successful completion of its Silver Jubilee year . |
| 11 | As the term draws to an end , his desire for her dominates his letters . |
| 12 | Many years later , as The Return of the King draws to an end , Bilbo gives a markedly different version sitting in Rivendell , having heard Frodo tell the story of the destruction of the Ring and , in his advanced old age , having failed to understand most of it : |
| 13 | Such contracts enable the latter to adjust their seasonal labour force downwards to cope with any less busy periods within the summer season and , more important , to run their labour forces down gradually as the season draws to an end and the number of guests tails off . |
| 14 | It was the year of the Queen 's Silver Jubilee and the Prince , just twenty-nine , was drawing to the end of his first year as a full-time working member of the ‘ family firm ’ . |
| 15 | Indeed , the company is just drawing to the end of a five- year £150 million capital investment programme . |
| 16 | Demobilization was drawing to an end , and many of the suffering migrants like the Famine refugees and the wandering hordes of orphans and youths could not often afford to take a train . |
| 17 | Now a sinister trend is emerging with the rearrest of some of those whose prison sentences are drawing to an end . |
| 18 | The clear danger was , however , that certain factions within the party leadership would not be so tolerant as Su Xiao Kang hoped and that the freer intellectual atmosphere of 1988 might be drawing to an end . |
| 19 | But what their 1–1 draw at Olympia Leisure Centre yesterday did signify was that the champions reign throughout that period is finally drawing to an end . |
| 20 | Taken in conjunction with his new powers , however , it aroused fears among pro-reform forces and among foreign observers that the recent period of liberalism and growing political freedom , ushered in under Gorbachev since 1985 , was drawing to an end . |
| 21 | There were some signs in 1990-91 that Japan 's long-running dispute with the Soviet Union might be drawing to an end . |