Example sentences of "brought [prep] [art] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does no such thing ; rather it defines the circumstances and conditions in which a marriage has ceased to be a source of happiness and strength to those involved and may be brought to an end … |
| 2 | The English Cup and league champions brought to an end a 33-match unbeaten home run by Neath , dating back to Pontypool 's visit on 8 March , 1988 , and recorded their first win over Neath since 1983 . |
| 3 | The gathering was suddenly brought to an end as a cluster of mortar bombs exploded on the village green shattering the windows of the café and dislodging bottles from the shelves . |
| 4 | ‘ To my mind , it is a virtual certainty that the partnership 's operations would have been brought to an end , in one way or another , within a relatively short time after … |
| 5 | Mr Clarke was responding to calls from leaders of all the main Churches for the dispute to be brought to an end swiftly . |
| 6 | The party was brought to an end deliberately , by the Bank of Japan . |
| 7 | It was a day to reassure English hearts , for not only was the sequence of defeats brought to an end but the fight was sturdily fought and morale given a welcome boost . |
| 8 | During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries the verderers , regarders and agisters usually held office for life , provided that they discharged their duties faithfully and well , but in the fifteenth century the authority of the verderer , like that of the coroner , was brought to an end by the death of the king , and the sheriffs were ordered to hold new elections . |
| 9 | The Commission concluded that ‘ the architects ' system of mandatory scales , together with rules which prevent competition for business on the basis of fees , operates against the public interest and should be brought to an end . ’ |
| 10 | If I notice the banker fidget and look at his watch , I may well conjecture that the game is about to be brought to an end , and I may therefore feel tempted to defect . |
| 11 | If nothing is agreed about notice , the common law implies a term into the contract that it can be brought to an end if ‘ reasonable notice ’ is given . |
| 12 | Clearly , you may face serious difficulties if your employment overseas is brought to an end before the anticipated date . |
| 13 | If your employment ends because of , say , revolution overseas , the contract may be regarded as frustrated , ie completely brought to an end by operation of law , because it is no longer possible for the contractual duties to be performed as you and your employer originally envisaged . |
| 14 | An employment contract may be brought to an end by the mutual consent of the parties . |
| 15 | In the event that the Commission considers that there is a strong prima facie case of infringement , and that there is a serious and urgent risk that irreparable harm will be caused to the party seeking relief or to the public interest , it can take an interim decision for the infringement to be brought to an end . |
| 16 | That experiment was , however , brought to an end in 1972 , although a brief attempt to restore devolved powers lasted from December 1973 to May 1974 . |
| 17 | Mr McGuinness said : ‘ In view of the ongoing conflict , with people being killed by British state forces , the IRA and loyalist death squads , there is a heavy responsibility on those in our society who have influence to sit down and discuss how this conflict can be brought to an end . ’ |
| 18 | The debt is brought to an end , but the asset is brought into the lender 's group ( but not the lender itself unless the sale goes through a receiver ) . |
| 19 | As the argument was brought to an end by Dubroca 's resignation , Ferrasse enraged his countrymen by revealing that one of the English IRB representatives , Albert Agar , had demanded that Dubroca be brought before the Board to account for his behaviour . |
| 20 | Despite the fact that the war with Spain was brought to an end in 1604 , the great majority of the English clergy and laity continued to view Roman Catholicism with the same mixture of deep loathing and suspicion as had their Elizabethan predecessors , regarding it as a serious threat to both their national security and the well-being of their souls . |
| 21 | The second was the period of civil-rights and civil-liberties cases that started with Brown v Board of Education in 1954 and which was brought to an end — according to the conventional wisdom — by the appointment of a block of five ‘ conservative ’ judges by Ronald Reagan and George Bush . |
| 22 | He expects that sacked workers will occupy their factory , sooner or later , ‘ so that this farce , orchestrated from the United States , will be quickly brought to an end . ’ |
| 23 | The Education Officer of Matagalpa Prison went as far as to say that when systems of exploitation can be brought to an end , crime as a major social phenomenon will disappear . |
| 24 | Walmsley looks at several possible explanations and concludes that the change is largely due to the Act itself , firstly in the simple sense that the passing of the 1967 Act brought to an end a trial period of uncertainty for the police by making quite clear that , although in the future homosexual acts in private between consenting adults were to be legal , such acts in ‘ public ’ as defined by the Act were not . |
| 25 | Queen Anne died a year after the signing of the Treaty of Utrecht , which had brought to an end a cycle of wars which , while primarily concerned with the balance of power in Europe , had given English governments an opportunity to take colonies away from other European countries and increase their empire by annexation as well as by settlement . |
| 26 | In part it was done by exploiting as fully as possible many small miscellaneous sources of income , such as fines on recusants and the revenue of vacant episcopal sees ; in part by careful and economic management — the household expenses were kept rigidly down in an age of inflation and the building of royal palaces was brought to an end ; in part by rewarding courtiers and officials from wardships and monopolies . |
| 27 | The Wars of the Roses had been brought to an end by the victory of Henry VII , and his dynasty was to last until 1603 . |
| 28 | This appointment brought to an end five months of unprecedented coverage in the media of the condition of English studies . |
| 29 | Another conference was held a few months later at Geneva , when France 's colonial war in Indochina was brought to an end . |
| 30 | Finally , on 30 August , the long and divisive debate was brought to an end when the French Assembly refused to ratify EDC . |