Example sentences of "ended with the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ceremony ended with the release of balloons each carrying a message to the people of Gloucestershire to support their libraries . |
| 2 | ANYONE who thought that naughty fun-and-games in the Japanese stockmarket had ended with the wave of securities scandals two years ago needs to think again . |
| 3 | A decade of success ended with the problems of recession — a world recession . |
| 4 | In Barcelona active resistance ended with the plot of May 1809 : when the French Government looked stable , theatres opened , social life picked up , and some of the émigrés returned . |
| 5 | The speech was partly addressed to the Hooded Owl of the title and ended with the bird in its glass case being smashed on the floor . |
| 6 | The Vietnamese leaders ' visit ended with the signing of a trade agreement and a " provisional agreement " on the handling of border affairs . |
| 7 | Talks between Russian officials and a high-level delegation led by the foreign secretary J. N. Dixit , who arrived in Moscow on Feb. 13 , ended with the signing of a bilateral trade agreement under which goods exchanged were be valued in dollars but paid for in rupees , pending a settlement of the rupee-rouble exchange rate . |
| 8 | President Askar Akayev 's visit to Germany on April 5-9 , when he met President Richard von Weizsäcker , Chancellor Helmut Kohl and Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher , ended with the signing of a co-operation protocol between Rhineland-Palatinate and Chuy oblast ( region ) , which included developing two German national cultural districts in Chuy . |
| 9 | The meeting ended with the questions of recognition for the HCS and acceptance of the political bureau 's resignation unresolved , pending a further session the following month . |
| 10 | This series ended with the birth of Frank and Betty 's baby daughter , Jessica . |
| 11 | So world war two ended with the surrender of Japan on the twelfth of December nineteen forty five . |
| 12 | This session ended with the Head of Department visibly upset by the criticisms over output , particularly homework , and it was decided that an extra session should be arranged in order further to explore issues in evaluation and assessment . |
| 13 | John Rowlands 's search ended with the discovery of his surviving grandfather , a ‘ severe and sour old man ’ who lived with two of Rowlands 's aunts in an old Welsh farmhouse . |
| 14 | In 323–4 civil war ended with the elimination of Licinius , and Constantine was at last sole ruler . |
| 15 | For him the " special " economic ties ended with the devaluation of sterling and the cessation of Anglo-American co-operation to uphold the Bretton Woods system in 1967 . |
| 16 | On the Nottinghamshire coalfield the strike at Harworth against the breakaway " Spencer Union " was also led by Communists and ended with the imprisonment of one of their leaders , Mick Kane . |
| 17 | In Argentina , the formative period began with the formation of mutual aid associations for shoemakers and printers and ended with the foundation of the General workers ' Union and three general strikes . |
| 18 | Hardline resistance to Mr Gaidar and his shock therapy programme , which conservatives say is sending millions into beggary , will not have ended with the vote in the Grand Kremlin Palace and is likely to move back on to the streets with more rabble-rousing in coming months . |
| 19 | What began with a sympathetic ministerial response to a proposed tax funded buy out of tobacco sponsorship was strengthened by support from the council 's 140 000 donors and from the medical and scientific communities , and ended with the creation of the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation . |
| 20 | A session of the GPC , held in Benghazi , on the north coast , on March 2-9 , 1989 , ended with the creation of eight new Cabinet portfolios and the abolition of three others ; the Congress approved various measures aimed at achieving greater economic efficiency and aligning Libya 's economy with those of its partners in the Arab Maghreb Union ( AMU ) created in February ( see p. 36474 ) . |
| 21 | The decade ended with the retirement of the Chairman , by then Canon Mackenzie , after thirteen crucial years in office . |
| 22 | LENNOX LEWIS 'S first day as WBC champion ended with the prospect of a £10 million all-British heavyweight showdown with Frank Bruno moving a shade nearer last night . |
| 23 | The episode ended with the appointment of a committee of inquiry , a device several times used by governments as a way of legitimating particular criteria of pay determination and hence avoiding industrial conflict . |
| 24 | Hello , we must be going : What can you say about a year that began with the end of Maggie and ended with the demise of Gorby ? |
| 25 | Had the war ended with the collapse of Madrid in November 1936 , the Nationalists would have had considerable difficulty in improvising the governmental and administrative apparatus necessary to sustain a new regime . |
| 26 | The assassin missed both ; not so the firing squad in the Mexican city of Querétaro where the dream of empire ended with the shooting of the Emperor Maximilian . |
| 27 | This is the period in the long history of the evolution of man and his God , which started with the beginning of life on earth , and ended with the dawning of civilisation . |
| 28 | The financial mismanagement that had reigned before 1911 was ended with the employment of professional accountants . |
| 29 | The ninth congress of the main trade union confederation , the Bolivian Workers ' Confederation ( COB ) , held in the southern ( legal ) capital of Sucre on May 4-13 , ended with the approval of a political programme which , as reported by the Spanish EFE news agency , advocated popular insurrection . |
| 30 | As far as the army was concerned , I had been told in October 1945 that effectively the matter was ended with the presumption of death . |