Example sentences of "come [prep] [art] end [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The 1 km successes were to come to an end this afternoon .
2 Years of danger and frustration for Blackfriars staff are to come to an end this summer with the installation of a traffic light controlled crossing over Stamford Street .
3 THE BEST unbeaten run in the second division came to an end last week when Maghull lost at Maine Road in the Vase .
4 The meantime came to an end three days later .
5 There is The Times front page of 16 November 1976 , on which I announce that ‘ the Lebanese civil war — or at least that stage of the conflict that cost … almost 40,000 lives — came to an end this morning when a Syrian army , 6,000 strong and accompanied by hundreds of tanks and heavy armoured vehicles , occupied the entire city of Beirut . ’
6 As The Lord of the Rings came to an end this temptation , too , grew upon him .
7 Textile manufacturing at Ebley Mill came to an end several decades ago .
8 There are , therefore , some grounds for modest optimism that the slump in the housing market may come to an end this year , although prices are likely to fall by as much as 3% or 4% from current levels before stabilising .
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