Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [to-vb] [art] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | Underwood 's new book , Flying Wing ( Stanley Paul £1499 ) , was intended to signal the end of a glittering career that brought him 55 England caps and a record 35 tries . |
| 2 | Article 8 of that Convention , which was designed to put an end to the problems created by flags of convenience , required contracting states to adopt |
| 3 | Like Sacre Coeur in Paris , Notre Dame , Fourviere was built to commemorate the end of the Franco-Prussian war — a conflict in which France was conclusively defeated . |
| 4 | The deception was meant to facilitate the end result . |
| 5 | A similar door on the right was meant to serve the end house . |
| 6 | Last night was meant to mark the end of Sinky 's luck in this competition . |
| 7 | With the exception of the Celtic lands of Wales and Brittany , over which he exercised only a loose over-lordship , he already controlled most of the seaboard of north-western Europe and he was determined to put an end to these exceptions . |
| 8 | I spoke to him like a mother but he was determined to put an end to her life , so on 11 January 1987 , when Paulette was leaving the home of her friends on the way to her own home , [ the defendant ] stopped her and shot her and then placed a call to my home to inform me of the murder . |