Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [prep] [art] end " 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 | Letters regularly occur in certain combinations and positions with , for example , the letter Q always being followed by U , and a number of letters rarely appearing at the end of a word ( e.g. , J V ) . |
| 5 | Ideally , you would be better waiting until the end of the year before selling and buying . |
| 6 | ‘ What 's life , ’ he said with a pessimism that fed Richard 's gloom , ‘ only waiting for the end . ’ |
| 7 | Sheedy may think that Madden , after a club record 375 games and with more than 570 goals during his career , is perhaps coming towards the end of his tether . |
| 8 | Also big trousers with big tops — it was all coming to an end , but it was still OK to wear them . |
| 9 | We 're only hoping at the end of this year , hopefully the company will incest in it . |
| 10 | Corbett , gently dreaming at the end of a bench , could well believe it and wondered if this time Satan would search him out . |
| 11 | Indeed , the company is just drawing to the end of a five- year £150 million capital investment programme . |
| 12 | But what their 1–1 draw at Olympia Leisure Centre yesterday did signify was that the champions reign throughout that period is finally drawing to an end . |
| 13 | Bell Aircraft was located in close proximity to the GE facility and while Bell was producing P–39s at an heroic rate , its design engineers were already looking beyond the end of the production contact to new , future fighters . |
| 14 | Just waiting for the end . |
| 15 | We 're just getting to the end of that now , we 'll be another mark on the er five year list you know between eighty seven and ninety two . |
| 16 | ‘ In 1980 I was 19 and just coming to the end of The Skids , which I 'd been in since I was 15 . |
| 17 | Give me patience , give me a little more patience , Alida thought , for it is soon coming to an end . |
| 18 | On the other hand , it 's also like walking over the end of a plug-hole . |
| 19 | Computing had the third highest percentage in work , but was average in terms on those still looking at the end of their courses . |
| 20 | He was still looking for the end of the war and the land fit for heroes to live in . |
| 21 | But mainly these diseases have now been er controlled if not completely eradicated and as a result the world 's population is er is likely to zoom up as you can see right off the top end of the , of the graph and we 're expecting something like eight billion people er and , and still rising at the end of the , of the century and it 'll be some time way into the next century before the world 's population actually starts to er er to level out . |
| 22 | THOUSANDS of demonstrators marched through the Moscow streets yesterday calling for an end to the Communist Party 's monopoly of power , in the first independent parade to be held on the anniversary of the Russian Revolution since Stalin imposed totalitarian conformity on the Soviet Union . |
| 23 | She was always running by the end of this dream , running away from the house , uphill towards the railway line . |
| 24 | Hanging over the increasingly tense political situation throughout May was the fate of more than 100 prisoners taking part in a mass hunger strike which began on May 1 and was still continuing at the end of the month . |
| 25 | The race started with the smallest grid since 1932 , yet 16 of the 29 cars that qualified were still running at the end . |
| 26 | So why not celebrate the fact that it 's rapidly coming to an end and invest in a poignant musical reminder of 1992 … ? |
| 27 | This is a typical example of Coleridge 's influence , which extended to many other writers of the age ; but in the case of Wordsworth the period of any real exchange of ideas was rapidly coming to an end . |
| 28 | If we look also at the review sections , we see that already in the 1920s McKerrow takes the view that a " great period of discovery is rapidly coming to an end : " an age of English scholarship is passing , if not already passed " . |
| 29 | I did n't see you , er all I 'm doing is like stopping at the end of the drive to light a fag up or something , she 's |
| 30 | Millwall 's protests ended with Cunningham being booked and they were still arguing at the end . |