Example sentences of "[art] end to [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile the pretence was maintained that Oliver was eager to pick up his bag and walk out , that it was he who was putting an end to things . |
| 2 | In connection with the Carrefour du développement ( Development Crossroads ) development aid scandal which came to light in mid-1986 the Commission d'instruction of the High Court on April 4 , 1990 , brought an end to investigations into the activities of Christian Nucci , the ( Socialist ) Minister-Delegate for Co-operation and Development at the time [ see pp. 35126 ; 36706 ] . |
| 3 | A draft State Ecological Programme , published on June 28 , 1989 , called for 400,000 million roubles to be spent , for an end to discharges of effluent into lakes and rivers by 2000 and for a halving of atmospheric pollutants by 2005 . |
| 4 | New eye op could mean an end to glasses |
| 5 | The committee , chaired by Conservative MP Hugh Rossi , wants an amendment to the Trade Descriptions Act to help put an end to companies making misleading " green " claims bought about by the rise of green consumerism . |
| 6 | It was nevertheless agreed on May 1 that there would be an end to hostilities in mid-May , to be followed by the formal signing of the peace documents at the end of the month . |
| 7 | In the first week of March , in what was effectively a coup against Negrín , a National Defence Council was created in Madrid , with the aim of negotiating an end to hostilities . |
| 8 | Anna 's parents hope the new law will mean an end to tragedies like their daughter 's murder . |
| 9 | However , this legislation did not put an end to complaints about military obligation . |
| 10 | The strike was in support of FNT demands , which enjoyed widespread popular support and that of the FSLN ( Sandinista ) opposition to which the FNT was affiliated , for a minimum monthly wage equivalent to US$200 and for an end to plans to privatize state enterprises . |
| 11 | Oil and petroleum workers threatened industrial action in support of demands for a 310 per cent salary adjustment , for an end to plans to privatize the state oil company PETROBRAS , and the reinstatement of 800 colleagues dismissed in government cutbacks . |
| 12 | To be brutal , no plan for a branch of public expenditure that calls for an end to disparities by ‘ levelling-up resources ’ across the board will ever drown out the office CD of the former Chief Secretary to the Treasury . |
| 13 | This group joined with Hocine Ait Ahmed of the Socialist Forces Front ( FFS ) in calling for the establishment of a transitional government of national unity and an end to trials before military courts . |
| 14 | He will probably announce the scrapping of residential segregation , and an end to blacks ' exclusion from most South African land . |
| 15 | The Prime Minister has called for an end to smears and personal attacks in the run-up to the election with a focus on policies and issues . |
| 16 | Today , the electronic typewriter with its daisy-wheel printer , and the personal computer with its ink jet dot-matrix printer , have probably put an end to developments in handwriting , although many people are now studying and practising the art of good penmanship , and the term a ‘ fine Italian hand ’ may yet be restored to its original meaning . |
| 17 | Entitled Main Directions for Stabilization of the National Economy and Transition to a Market Economy , the programme listed as conditions for creation of a market economy ( i ) " maximum freedom of economic activity " ; ( ii ) " full responsibility of organizations , entrepreneurs and workers for the results of their economic activities , based on the equality of all forms of property " ; ( iii ) competition between producers as a vital factor in stimulating economic activity , requiring an end to monopolies ; ( iv ) price freedom , based on supply and demand ; ( v ) " abandonment of direct state participation in economic activity ( with the exception of certain specific sectors ) " ; ( vi ) " extension of market relations to those spheres where they are more effective than administrative forms of regulation " ( continuing as " non-market sectors " would be defence , health , education , science and culture ) ; ( vii ) " an open economy and its progressive integration with the world economic system " ; and ( viii ) a state social security system . |
| 18 | His statement , in a television interview , made it clear , however , that the ANC was still some way from deciding the timing of advocating an end to sanctions . |
| 19 | A call for an end to sanctions came also from Sergei Baburin , head of a Russian parliamentary delegation which visited Iraq on Nov. 9-15 . |
| 20 | The ANC Leader , Nelson Mandela , has called for an end to sanctions against South Africa . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | They also demanded an end to imports of French electricity . |
| 23 | Excuses , wrote Goldberg in the margin of his typescript with a felt-tip pen , an end to excuses . |
| 24 | Individual pastors have helped to found some of the numerous opposition groups while bishops have intervened to put an end to confrontations between the police and reformers . |
| 25 | St Hugh , bishop of Lincoln from 1185 to 1200 , put an end to offerings at streams at Berkhampstead , Wycombe and elsewhere . |
| 26 | For those Celtic supporters who have had to tread a thin line between desperation and devastation this season , there was no inclination to do anything other than wallow in it being their team who had put an end to Rangers long , unbeaten run . |
| 27 | On 6 January , 1918 , the soldiers ‘ protecting ’ its deliberations marched in to put an end to proceedings . |
| 28 | Research director Ulrich Seiffert was anxious to put an end to rumours that the engine had been delayed by chronic friction and vibration problems . |
| 29 | The delegates called for an end to workers being sacked just because they were sick or injured . |
| 30 | The Hong Kong stock exchange plummeted as Mr Patten , criticised by businessmen in the colony for rocking its relationship with Beijing 's power brokers , called an end to months of behind the scenes wrangling . |