Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] an [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only when the means of production are communally owned will classes disappear , thereby bringing an end to the exploitation and oppression of some by others . |
| 2 | Every Hellenistic hymn to Apollo came naturally to include an allusion to the god 's triumph over the Celts . |
| 3 | Evans sees it as an adaptation of the Egyptian dog-ape , possibly developing from the monkey frescoes in the Knossos Labyrinth ; the monkey was not native to Crete and the animal may have been taken for a monster and so given an impulse to the creation of other monsters . |
| 4 | Leading lights in the EISA bus world have come together to agree an extension to the specification called EISA with Enhanced Master Burst Addendum , which defines enhancements compatible with existing EISA products that enable the input-output performance needed for emerging high-end server applications . |
| 5 | Leading lights in the EISA bus world have come together to agree an extension to the specification called EISA with Enhanced Master Burst Addendum , which defines enhancements compatible with existing EISA products that enable the input-output performance needed for emerging high-end server applications . |
| 6 | " The language of section 142(1) of the Law of Property Act 1925 seems to me wide enough to enable an action to be brought by [ D ] against [ L ] . |
| 7 | The administrators wanted to question both the manager and assistant manager of BCCI 's Brompton Road branch , so made an application to the court under section 236(2) . |
| 8 | Anne felt a stab of pain , although she told herself that she was not interested in John Redmond any more , yet eagerly accepted an invitation to Sunday tea from Sarah . |
| 9 | Rhodesia had long presented an affront to Ghana and other Black African states , yet Nkrumah still valued the Commonwealth connection sufficiently to support Britain 's compromise proposals . |
| 10 | A loud slam from somewhere on the floor below put an end to further reluctance . |
| 11 | Goma appealed to the man who denounced the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968 to stand up and be counted , and so give an example to his fellow citizens to persuade them to overcome their reticence about signing the Charter : |
| 12 | Although there was no clear distinction between philosophy and the particular sciences , the subordination of metaphysics to theology did not necessarily entail an obstruction to the study of nature . |
| 13 | The life which Jesus advocated must have necessarily had an appeal to men rather than to women , for it would in many cases have put women in an impossible position . |
| 14 | She 's only to give an envelope to Louise . |
| 15 | Indeed his work not only provided an answer to that particular problem , but gave a complete theory of a whole class of related problems . |
| 16 | At nightfall he mounted and rode straight for Poitou , pausing only to send an envoy to his father with the message that he would never allow anyone to take his place as Duke of Aquitaine . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Even so , it should not be assumed that the abolition of public examinations would necessarily put an end to transmission styles of teaching . |
| 19 | … 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 . |
| 20 | I looked to see if he was trying to be unpleasant but he was obviously making an effort to be polite . |
| 21 | This naturally gives an advantage to the institutions ' closest advisers : American investment banks . |
| 22 | It may finally be noted that the presence of a " synonymous " word-pair within a parallelistic couplet may not necessarily form an obstacle to the parallelism of greater specificity . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Imaginative story-telling thus represents an alternative to information , but also to the realist novel which shares the media 's obsession with factual precision . |
| 26 | For many critics of the existing Constitution , parliamentary sovereignty no longer constitutes an encouragement to the rule of law but rather exists as an impediment to its attainment . |
| 27 | When you 've had your tetanus antibodies from the horse serum you then normally develop an allergy to the horse serum . |
| 28 | A quantity have been put aside for overseas readers — just send an IRC to our Mail Order Department and we will send you one , while stocks last . |
| 29 | This column has already reported an addition to Matthew Hall 's family and now it gives me pleasure to report another addition at the Dodge Chemical Company — but this time its not another birth , it is the news that Adrian Haler 's daughter , Patricia Lewis joined the company on August 17th . |
| 30 | The 1971 Act finally put an end to black people settling in Britain by putting all incoming Commonwealth Citizens on a par with ‘ aliens ’ . |