Example sentences of "[adv] put [art] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , apart from the fact that we have to live anyway , could reason alone put a stop to the dizzying effect of the question ? |
| 2 | A loud slam from somewhere on the floor below put an end to further reluctance . |
| 3 | On 6 January , 1918 , the soldiers ‘ protecting ’ its deliberations marched in to put an end to proceedings . |
| 4 | The Great War more or less put an end to the era of the great station and with it the period of the pre-eminence of the railways . |
| 5 | New funding arrangements for community care will not necessarily put a stop to such perverse incentives and may indeed provide further scope for cost shifting . |
| 6 | Even so , it should not be assumed that the abolition of public examinations would necessarily put an end to transmission styles of teaching . |
| 7 | … Now , in this case , it was agreed , that the defendant should quit at Candlemas ; and though the agreement is void as to the number of years for which the defendant was to hold , if the lessor chooses to determine the tenancy before the expiration of the seven years , he can only put an end to it at Candlemas . |
| 8 | It will literally put a face to a name and be a useful memory aid when you compare notes and come to a final decision after the interviews . ) |
| 9 | The imposition of martial law on Lhasa on March 7 , 1989 , following violent clashes between Tibetans and Chinese police [ see p. 36521 ] effectively put a stop to further mass demonstrations . |
| 10 | The Arnhem debacle effectively put an end to our hopes of peace by Christmas , and gradually it seemed that the combined Allied armies were slithering to a halt . |
| 11 | In September 1977 the second wave of terrorism by the Baader-Meinhof gang reached its grisly climax : the businessman Hans-Martin Schleyer was kidnapped and murdered ; Palestinian and German terrorists made a vain bid to get Baader and others released from prison , by hijacking a Lufthansa airliner ; and when German police forcibly put an end to the hijack Baader and his colleagues committed suicide . |
| 12 | The 1971 Act finally put an end to black people settling in Britain by putting all incoming Commonwealth Citizens on a par with ‘ aliens ’ . |
| 13 | In his will , Theo finally put an end to the squabble writing : ‘ I bequeath my last penny to Havant council . ’ |
| 14 | But that little plan was soon put a stop to , for mother would not let me go by myself , and there was nobody to go with me . |
| 15 | Daisy soon put a stop to that . |
| 16 | We did have a couple of suicides , but I soon put a stop to that . |
| 17 | All our playmates crowded round to marvel at our get-up and touch our finery , but Mum soon put a stop to this and sent us indoors . |
| 18 | So we founded AMES , but the repression soon put a stop to this first attempt . |
| 19 | The introduction of bogies soon put an end to any further construction of such vehicles . |
| 20 | Carvajal was also very active in the bullion trade by that time , importing as much as £100,000 per annum during the early 1650s , and thus made himself so indispensable to the parliamentary side that , when he was denounced as a recusant in 1645 , a number of City merchants petitioned Parliament to have the charge dropped , and the House of Lords soon put an end to the prosecution . |
| 21 | After long consideration , he had decided that he would try to write a book so outrageous that the Presbyterian élite of Tollemarche would ostracize the whole Stych family and thus put an end to his mother 's inane social life . |
| 22 | ‘ Like move some mouth with Elvis , top your other self , wring the truth out of Crawford , get back your dame and generally put the world to rights . |
| 23 | As far as the Royal Navy were concerned the nuisance of excessive leakage was largely put a stop to when Sir Robert Seppings ( 1764–1840 ) introduced diagonal iron bracing into wooden hulls about 1830 . |
| 24 | In truth , as I mean to tell Her Grace , he means very soon to put an end to your captivity . ’ |
| 25 | In truth , as I mean to tell Her Grace , he means very soon to put an end to your captivity . |
| 26 | He even preferred not to put the question to the vote in 1952 after Stalin 's offer of unification in exchange for neutrality for fear that the Germans might well be tempted by that option . |
| 27 | Taking advantage of Guy 's momentary stupefaction , she wriggled out from under him and leapt off the bed , everything forgotten but the need to escape from something she dared not put a name to . |
| 28 | The sergeant told them all about the cattle trucks and how Charles had soon put a stop to that . |
| 29 | When Wendy 's father died of lung cancer , he asked Rhoda to move in and presently got it together to marry her , thus putting a stop to Wendy 's sudden plan to abandon Dev and move back in with Ken . |
| 30 | But that did not put a stop to the myths that have always surrounded Earth 's nearest neighbour |