Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] to [art] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | Incidentally , Dutoit dampens the tam-tam at the end ( he 's not the only one ! ) , despite Rachmaninov 's clear instruction that whilst the rest of the orchestra play a quaver , the tam-tam should go to the end of the bar ( notated dotted crotchet ) with the implication that it should be allowed to carry on beyond . |
| 2 | A maximum of 15 minutes on any one drill is therefore ideal , unless , of course , it is being played for points , in which case you should play to the end of that particular session . |
| 3 | Still , they might have had a few more years left in them yet , and so in that respect , it was rather courageous of them to accept Nicholson 's script and Rafelson 's apparent decision that all good things must come to an end . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm afraid our little arrangement must come to an end , Ruth , ’ she said at once . |
| 5 | ‘ Everything must come to an end , even a long time spent on the run , ’ police quoted him as saying . |
| 6 | Writing in the Yorkshire Miner he declared : ‘ The day of the exploited miner must come to an end now . |
| 7 | This meant in practice that all foreign intervention , by the United States and Pakistan as well as the USSR , must come to an end ; secure guarantees must be provided that there would be no further intervention in Afghan affairs ; and the People 's Democratic Party ( which remained strongly Soviet-aligned ) was to be accorded a dominant position in any future Afghan government . |
| 8 | Dulé found himself longing , this carnage , this bloodshed must come to an end , we must call a truce , make a new treaty . |
| 9 | The bailing out of weaker building societies must come to an end . |
| 10 | But all good things must come to an end ; back on the old routine mixing it with the Luftwaffe and all they could muster — and their reaction was tremendous . |
| 11 | But this man will pull no punches when he is irked : as the head of the Thatcher loyalists determined that she should fight to the end , he threatened to floor a Thatcher aide who was guarding her door unless he allowed him in to see her . |
| 12 | Reason said , Not always , for otherwise mankind itself might come to an end . |
| 13 | Charlie was n't frightened of any Germans , but he still hoped that the war might come to an end quickly and that his father would return to Whitechapel and his routine of working at the docks during the day and drinking in the Black Bull at night But with no letters and only restricted news in the papers even Mr Salmon could n't tell him what was really happening at the front . |
| 14 | Yeah , if you think you might come to the end of a conversation before you reach the end of the tape , they 've rather you put a new tape in . |
| 15 | I reckon he 'll get to the end of the universe and that 'll be that . |
| 16 | the sky was high , the air so clear that he imagined he could see to the ends of the earth . |
| 17 | Farmers in such situations have the experience , knowledge and wisdom to recognise that implementation of structural policy could lead to the end of their occupancy of land as independent entrepreneurs . |
| 18 | President Bush says the world must look beyond the Gulf crisis to a new deal for the Middle East , and he 's hinting that an Iraqi pull out from Kuwait could lead to an end to the conflict between the Arabs and Israel . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'd come to the end of my tether , ’ she confesses . |
| 20 | So just looking at that process , the process of making a piece of practical drama , whether it comes from text or not … the processes of assessment are very complex and far-reaching , and I think it would be very unreal to say that anybody could get to the end of that process without knowing very clearly what … the task had been , how they had approached it , how it had gone at the end really . |
| 21 | Why , you 're as big a fool , my son — but go on , let's hear to the end . |
| 22 | Let's go to the end of the garden and look at the ghastly thing that Martin flogged us . " |
| 23 | Right let's go let's go to the end look . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | And it would bring to an end a promising era of Security Council co-operation . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It would bring to an end a long and glorious chapter in the history of humanity 's intellectual struggle to understand the universe . |
| 28 | And they shall continue , for now his greatness shall reach to the ends of the earth : and he shall be a man of peace ’ ( Micah 5:2–5 ) . |
| 29 | Many prophets in the tenth century believed that the world would come to an end in the year 1000 , but according to A. J. Gurevich the legends concerning mass psychoses in Europe as the year 1000 approached originated at the end of the fifteenth century when people really were afraid that the end of the world was imminent . |
| 30 | Normally , New Scientist heralds the beginning of April with a few jeux d'esprit , but this year it was subdued , predicting only that the world would come to an end on 5 April , a prophecy based on meat consumption figures , though it was hard to make up the mind about an item called ‘ What the woodlouse can teach us about marriage ’ . |