Example sentences of "[adv] bring to an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An annual subscription of £21 to the funds of Bedford County Hospital was sanctioned , thereby bringing to an end the disagreement which had begun 10 years earlier . |
| 2 | Le Monde of Oct. 5 , 1989 , reported that Parliament had approved a law allowing the establishment of local private television stations and thereby bringing to an end the state broadcasting monopoly . |
| 3 | Diplomatic relations between South Korea and the Soviet Union had been established in September 1990 , thereby bringing to an end a period of hostility dating from the Korean war . |
| 4 | The gathering was suddenly brought to an end as a cluster of mortar bombs exploded on the village green shattering the windows of the café and dislodging bottles from the shelves . |
| 5 | His legal advisers are anxious to establish a functioning police and judiciary system so that Somalis can begin to administer themselves — and thus bring to an end the violent anarchy that has caused the death from famine of up to 400,000 people . |
| 6 | The end of the Persian War did not bring to an end the Athenian Empire , though the existence of the confederacy was now harder to justify . |
| 7 | Any possibility of this , he concluded , was ruled out by the Merchant Shipping Act 1854 which finally brought to an end the provisions of the Navigation Acts , ( already repealed in other respects in 1849 ) that all seamen on coasting vessels , and three-quarters of crews on ships in foreign trade , were to be British . |
| 8 | The 12-year civil war in El Salvador was formally brought to an end on Dec. 15 when , after a series of delays and setbacks , the planned demobilization of guerrilla forces and active army units was finalized . |
| 9 | He expects that sacked workers will occupy their factory , sooner or later , ‘ so that this farce , orchestrated from the United States , will be quickly brought to an end . ’ |
| 10 | He also brought to an end , but not without difficulty , the suit which had begun between the archbishop and the chapter of Canterbury over the church of Lambeth , which the same archbishop , against the will of the chapter , had built and endowed with many and substantial rents , instituting canons regular in it — noble men , powerful and educated . |
| 11 | The document effectively brought to an end over four decades of " civil war " between the Kuomintang government of the Republic of China ( Taiwan ) and the Chinese Communist Party ( CCP ) -ruled People 's Republic of China . |
| 12 | In late April 1991 Lee signed a document declaring the end of the " Period of Mobilization for the Suppression of the Communist Rebellion " , which effectively brought to an end more than four decades of " civil war " between Taiwan and the Chinese mainland . |
| 13 | If your employment ends because of , say , revolution overseas , the contract may be regarded as frustrated , ie completely brought to an end by operation of law , because it is no longer possible for the contractual duties to be performed as you and your employer originally envisaged . |
| 14 | The association cause for the ending of criminalisa criminalisation , the word , of pensioner 's , who 's only fault is their poverty , it is confident that the British people will support this cause and that their protest will be , speedily bring to an end a situation which is the shame of our Country , that 's signed by the President of the British Pensioner 's and Fred the Secretary . |