Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] a end [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Altos systems are now distributed by Leeds-based Computer Services Technology Ltd and Metrologie UK : Altos ' relationship with Microvitec 's Logitek plc came to an end a few months ago . |
| 2 | Everyone was too interested in singing to the actions of the game to take much notice , but as the game came to an end the Brownies saw that Brown Owl was gazing upwards with a rather troubled look on her face . |
| 3 | As 1745 , a year of defeat and near disaster , came to an end the government in London was far more concerned about the enemy presence just across the Channel than the more distant one beyond the Scottish border . |
| 4 | As the 1980s came to an end the fitness movement worldwide had become a £1 billion industry . |
| 5 | And er the War ended as you know in November eighteen and er when the War came to an end the the Government introduced a form of service whereas if er we youngsters volunteered say if you volunteered for two year they gave you twenty pound and two months leave you see , if you volunteered for three year they gave you forty pound or was it thirty , thirty forty , and er three months leave . |
| 6 | ‘ Formally , the Tyrrell Society came to an end the day of Ramsey 's funeral . |
| 7 | And it would bring to an end a promising era of Security Council co-operation . |
| 8 | It would bring to an end a long and glorious chapter in the history of humanity 's intellectual struggle to understand the universe . |
| 9 | What Pepper v Hart does is bring to an end an anomaly most lay people would not have believed existed : that the courts , when trying to interpret the meaning of statutory provisions , have not been allowed to take into consideration Parliamentary debates and the legislators ' intentions during the passing of a Bill . |
| 10 | At first Christians looked upon the risen Jesus as the Messiah whose return was imminent and would bring to an end the existing world-order . |
| 11 | It would transfer supervision of the areas from the Bureau of Land Management ( BLM ) to the National Parks Service and would bring to an end the existing cattle ranching , mining activity and off-road vehicle use . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The English Cup and league champions brought to an end a 33-match unbeaten home run by Neath , dating back to Pontypool 's visit on 8 March , 1988 , and recorded their first win over Neath since 1983 . |
| 14 | Walmsley looks at several possible explanations and concludes that the change is largely due to the Act itself , firstly in the simple sense that the passing of the 1967 Act brought to an end a trial period of uncertainty for the police by making quite clear that , although in the future homosexual acts in private between consenting adults were to be legal , such acts in ‘ public ’ as defined by the Act were not . |
| 15 | Queen Anne died a year after the signing of the Treaty of Utrecht , which had brought to an end a cycle of wars which , while primarily concerned with the balance of power in Europe , had given English governments an opportunity to take colonies away from other European countries and increase their empire by annexation as well as by settlement . |
| 16 | The incident brought to an end a month-long period of peace in Kashmir , and dashed hopes of a reduction in the border tension . |
| 17 | The decision brought to an end a case which had begun in 1979 when a female student filed a complaint over the exclusion with New Jersey civil rights officials . |
| 18 | This decision brought to an end a hunger strike which several city councillors had been observing since the police force had been taken out of the city 's control . |
| 19 | His murder brought to an end a political dynasty stretching back through his mother Indira Gandhi to Jawaharlal Nehru , Indira 's father and India 's first Prime Minister . |
| 20 | The visit brought to an end a period of tension in Franco-Lebanese relations , and Mitterrand accepted an invitation to visit Beirut . |
| 21 | The passage by the House of representatives of a civil rights bill by 381 votes to 38 on Nov. 7 , following Senate approval by 93 votes to 5 on Oct. 30 , brought to an end a two-year battle for enactment which had included Bush 's 1990 veto of a previous bill and months of inconclusive efforts in mid-1991 by Democratic and moderate Republican senators to work out a compromise with the administration [ see p. 38381 ] . |
| 22 | The accident brought to an end a promising army career which began in December 1986 when he was 17 . |
| 23 | The publication on Aug. 1 of drafts of three variants of the electoral bill had brought to an end an opposition blockade of Georgia 's main rail link with the rest of the Soviet Union . |
| 24 | The move brought to an end an intense struggle between Wilson and the Democrat-controlled state legislature over how to deal with the state 's $10,700 million budget deficit . |
| 25 | By the mid-1970s the ‘ bulge ’ had nearly worked its way through the system , and this , together with disillusion with innovation in education , brought to an end the role of the education service as an expenditure growth-leader among the public services . |
| 26 | This may be reflected in the faunal changes and may have brought to an end the stable conditions represented by the pure quartzites that extend all the way from the Welsh borderland to Morocco . |
| 27 | Once it had become apparent to the farmer that the locking mechanism was broken , that had brought to an end the seller 's obligation that the coupling continue to be reasonably fit for its purpose . |
| 28 | The EPLF offensive against Massawa , beginning on Feb. 8 , had brought to an end the unofficial ceasefire observed by the front since the unsuccessful coup attempt against President Mengistu Haile Mariam in April 1989 [ see p. 36646 ] . |
| 29 | A statement by the Justice Department on March 2 said that press reports had created an " untrue impression " that an announcement in Parliament by Justice Minister Coetsee on Feb. 26 concerning the carrying out of the death sentence had brought to an end the moratorium on executions . |
| 30 | And in 1937 , just as their " reign " was coming to an end the Bugatti claimed one of racing 's greatest prizes by winning Le Mans with Wimille and Robert Benoist in the driving seat . |