Example sentences of "[verb] bring [prep] [art] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is hard to exaggerate the importance of this development , which , for reasons purely of financial accountability , involved the Colonial Office intimately in economic planning for the empire and thus helped to bring to an end the old imperial system in which colonies had puttered along as virtually independent satrapies , with the Colonial Office exercising only a watching brief . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In the road named after him , today 's so-called tribunes of the people decided to bring to an end the antics of the hon. Member for Coventry , South-East . |
| 4 | By proclaiming the arrival of democracy , and with it " the end of ideology " and ideological politics , the revisionists of the 1950s perhaps hoped to bring to an end the perennial debate about democracy . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ] . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ Bill Clinton is not perfect , but the great thing I 've seen in America is the lifting of the spirits , the sense of all things being possible again , just because they have brought to an end three administrations which were conservative . |