Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | FORMER Tour de France champion Stephen Roche last night revealed the agony behind his decision to retire admitted the pressure cycling exerted on his family life prompted his decision to retire the end of next season . |
| 2 | Accompanied by a delegation of his Cabinet colleagues , Nu arrived in London on 15 October for a treaty ceremony to ratify the end of British rule . |
| 3 | Then Dad shot home the bolt , though this did n't stop us opening the window to see the end of the rumpus . |
| 4 | It entails a testing session to find the end point ( the first dilution of the extract that does not cause the wheal to increase in the 10 minutes after intradermal injection ) followed by prophylactic use of that dilution . |
| 5 | Sometimes I get out my violin and we all three play some music together , which is a kind of combination of work and conversation — it has all the tense absorption of the one , and all the anxiety to reach the end , together with all the wordless companionability of the other . |
| 6 | IN THEIR anxiety to celebrate the end of the cold war and spend the ‘ peace dividend ’ western politicans have sometimes forgotten how many people earned their living from it . |
| 7 | With Bushmills distillery just up the road , this is an apt place to celebrate the end of a great walk . |
| 8 | ‘ … where the formal press conference to mark the end of the Council of the Galaxy is about to begin . ’ |
| 9 | A note has been entered in the technical file to explain the end of part 6 has to be cut down as illustrated . |
| 10 | In this case , it may be necessary to specify a start module to reach the end of the list , but this is really only required if there are currently more than 10 modules related to the SSR . |
| 11 | In some ways it serves the same purpose as having a service to recognize the end of mourning . |
| 12 | Also could I pour this water into my compost bin to enrich the end product ? |
| 13 | In his speech Shevardnadze declared his readiness to talk about " a final legal settlement " ( as advocated by the Western allies ) rather than a peace treaty to mark the end of the Second World War . |
| 14 | In fact , he was the man who 'd escorted her to the door to mark the end of her first visit . |
| 15 | Ask your local delicatessen to keep the end of a new Parma ham for you , or put in a bid for the unsliceable knuckle end . |
| 16 | THE bars of America were packed at the end of last week , as viewers gathered in suitably drunken fashion to salute the end of ‘ Cheers ’ . |
| 17 | It 'll be a way to acknowledge the end of an era as well as to acknowledge the people who contributed to it over the last 20 years . |
| 18 | The defence of any practice is its ability to promote the end ; all means are instrumental . |
| 19 | The real key to success is tailoring the system to fit the end users . |
| 20 | Birmingham on 1 and 2 August 1838 saw a celebration to mark the end of apprenticeship . |
| 21 | Should , for instance , link B need to be re-positioned ( due to , say , an object entering its model space ) , then an iterative procedure can be implemented in order to maintain the end of link C on reference point R. |
| 22 | No archbishop but Fisher would have had the administrative ability or the tenacity to achieve the end . |
| 23 | The occasions that stand out in the three decades of our post-imperial era are : Duncan Sandys ' 1957 decision to recommend the end of National Service , which almost halved the Army ; the Kennedy/Macmillan Polaris agreement at Nassau in 1962 that led to the RAF losing responsibility to the Royal Navy for the British nuclear deterrent ; Denis Healey 's scrapping of the TSR2 in 1965 , which threatened to ‘ unhorse ’ the RAF 's knights ; his cancellation of the aircraft-carrier replacement programme in 1966 , which did much the same thing to the Royal Navy ; and John Nott 's attempt in 1981 to maintain the strength of the Rhine Army and RAF Germany at the expense of our maritime capability . |
| 24 | In 1987 , Olivia Channon , 21 , the daughter of former Transport Secretary Paul Channon , died after a drink and drugs party to celebrate the end of exam finals at Christchurch College . |
| 25 | It is a dinner to celebrate the end of our five years at Bohunt . |
| 26 | It seemed to take a long time to reach the end of the wall and I was about to turn right towards the door of the farm kitchen when from my left I heard the sudden rattle of a chain then a roaring creature launched itself at me , bayed once , mightily , into my face and was gone . |
| 27 | An RAF squadron which is to be disbanded next month has staged a special display to mark the end of an era . |