Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [art] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only way they could get any semblance of acting was for Alex to speak a whole sentence , Michael to wait for the end , and then repeat it . |
| 2 | This was sooner than had been expected , President José Eduardo dos Santos declaring that it was not necessary to wait for the end of the war to initiate the reforms . |
| 3 | Spontaneity was given organised form on 11 October when antislavery delegates from Bath , Bristol , Exeter , Gloucester , Taunton , Devizes and Westbury met at Bath and resolved to work for the end of apprenticeship by August 1838 . |
| 4 | This truck stood 9in from the floor , and was constructed to carry two milk churns and , at the same time was narrow enough to pass through the end gangways , so that the churns could be taken from one end of the train to the other . |
| 5 | This is due to appear towards the end of the year , but in the meantime the two companies have extended their relationship so that Office will be sold through all Novell reseller channels . |
| 6 | As soon as the soil is dry enough to rake towards the end of the month , do n't delay sowing such hardy crops as cabbage , non-bolting beetroot , lettuce , spinach , peas and broad beans . |
| 7 | The NPT thus repeated a pledge first made by America , Russia and Britain to work towards an end to nuclear testing ‘ for all time ’ . |
| 8 | This allows the centre to offer students , for whom the full degree programme may not be appropriate , the opportunity to work towards an end point at Year 1 or 2 which carries a qualification awarded by SCOTVEC on a national basis and which , through SCOTVEC 's efforts in negotiating national recognition agreements for its awards , has currency in the employment marketplace . |
| 9 | This suggests that processing load tends to increase near the end of a clause . |
| 10 | The team at St Andrew Square exceeded their annual target by two sales and are confident there are more to come before the end of the year . |
| 11 | We 've still got er er a couple of calls I think to come before the end of er this morning 's programme on the subject of erm , I do n't know whether it 's life imprisonment or er on er on divorce . |
| 12 | Tourism as such did not begin to flourish until the end of the 18th century . |
| 13 | More urgently , one could be forearmed against the Antichrist , the powerful , personal opponent of Christ who ( as in 1 John 2:18 ) was expected to appear before the end of the world . |
| 14 | If you go back to work before the end of 28 weeks and are then absent again , Statutory Sick Pay will be payable for each period of absence until your 28 weeks ' entitlement has been exhausted , provided you have not been back at work for more than 8 weeks . |
| 15 | Senior research administrators from both sides of the Atlantic plan to meet before the end of the month to discuss the implications to Anglo-French trial results which last week cast doubt on the usefulness of the drug AZT in treating HIV . |
| 16 | To come to the end of a time of anxiety and fear ! |
| 17 | Of course , her letter has given me extra cause to continue thinking of her as ‘ Miss Kenton ’ , since it would seem , sadly , that her marriage is finally to come to an end . |
| 18 | To the disappointment of some of its supporters , the new Labour government proved to be by no means wedded to the idea that the British empire ought now summarily to come to an end . |
| 19 | Unlike the interregional decentralization , which seemed to come to an end in the mid-'70s , this process seemed set to continue , at least in relative terms . |
| 20 | ‘ All good things have got to come to an end , ’ said Stephen . |
| 21 | The 1 km successes were to come to an end this afternoon . |
| 22 | The Madonna wept ; Rosa knew she wanted the sufferings of her children to come to an end . |
| 23 | Having travelled the ‘ road from revolutionary elitism to proletarian populism ’ , James ' American sojourn was about to come to an end but , before it did , he would write ‘ Mariners , Renegades and Castaways ’ in which he expressed his poetic view of the world through an interpretation of the works of Herman Melville . |
| 24 | initial destinations questionnaires were sent to 171 SERC-funded students : SERC provided details of the names and departments of students holding information engineering awards that were due to come to an end in 1984 ; |
| 25 | Honestly , the scene he made , you 'd have thought the world was about to come to an end . |
| 26 | There was a moment , particularly at tea , when I would sense that our conversation was , so far as he was concerned , due to come to an end . |
| 27 | Now remember we all of us came from the background that , you know this world was going to come to an end very soon . |
| 28 | It was a great regret to me that our partnership was to come to an end . |
| 29 | I suppose the winning streak had to come to an end sometime and really it 's better now when we can do something about it than at crimble when it 'll be more difficult to start shifting the team around in the more hectic fixture list . |
| 30 | I 'm afraid the tide has now turned , and er , this negotiation will have to come to an end . |