Example sentences of "[noun sg] bring [prep] [art] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Three years after publisher Robert Maxwell sacked twenty one journalists from the Pergamon Press company , it 's been announced tonight that they 're to be paid thousands of pounds in compensation.The deal brings to an end one of the longest runing disputes in British trade union history . |
| 3 | The closure brings to an end 67 years of rayon activity at Cornwall , making it by far the Group 's longest surviving manufacturing unit . |
| 4 | Negotiators for the European Communities ( EC ) and the USA reached an accord on Nov. 20 on a long-running dispute over farm subsidies , thus seemingly opening the way for the conclusion of a worldwide free-trade accord to bring to an end the six-year negotiations in the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) [ see pp. 38888-89 ; 38939 ; 39170 ] , although bitter divisions within the EC threatened to persist , with France denouncing the deal and warning of its intention to block its final approval . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | If he has any social reform plans , he should approach the Minister of Health who is at this very moment bringing to an end the old Poor Law … ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The accident brought to an end a promising army career which began in December 1986 when he was 17 . |
| 9 | This article brings to an end the current series on colour mixing . |
| 10 | In the West the ‘ Group of Seven ’ ( G7 ) , at meetings in London and Venice , declared a concern to see the struggle brought to an end and freedom of navigation assured . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This appointment brought to an end five months of unprecedented coverage in the media of the condition of English studies . |
| 14 | The incident brought to an end a month-long period of peace in Kashmir , and dashed hopes of a reduction in the border tension . |
| 15 | The formation of the new government brought to an end United States efforts to broker a peace plan involving Palestinian elections in the occupied territories . |
| 16 | RAF Abingdon closes this summer bringing to an end its role as a servicing centre for jet fighters . |
| 17 | The visit brought to an end a period of tension in Franco-Lebanese relations , and Mitterrand accepted an invitation to visit Beirut . |