Example sentences of "saw the end " in BNC.

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1 In contrast , 5 July saw the end of the already very limited service between Stratford and Tottenham Hale via Lea Bridge , a line which may now return to passenger use following electrification at 25kV in 1989 .
2 The same month saw the end of the Brechin line while in 1982 the Forfar service ceased in June .
3 BR 's motive-power policy was rapidly turned on its head with the abandonment of two sacred principles : sectorisation saw the end of the common-user policy for locomotives and passenger multiple units : and no longer was it accepted that life-expired main-line cast-offs should spend their last days propping up secondary services .
4 But the reign of Charles II saw the end of the great Forest courts .
5 Perhaps it was the transition to land that enabled the scorpions to survive beyond the Palaeozoic , which saw the end of the sea scorpions .
6 The Second World War saw the end of piano manufacture , the works turned over to the production of aircraft parts by the Gloucester Aircraft Company , but after the war , piano manufacture started up again .
7 The conversion of route 30 saw the end of the SouthmeT tramway system .
8 This same period saw the end of traditional censorship in films , plays and books .
9 The 1690s saw the end of the formal representation of the shroud in funerary sculpture with the commissioning in 1694 of the Catesby monument at Whiston , Northamptonshire .
10 The introduction of the T.4 saw the end of the Meteors , much to the regret of some of the pilots .
11 Retirement of the Mk 30 Lincolns saw the end of the piston-engined heavy bomber in Australian service .
12 The year before the first one-day tournament took place , 1962 , saw the end of the distinction between amateur and professional cricketers , between gentlemen and players .
13 It is no coincidence that 1974 , the year in England and Wales which saw the end of the decline the proportionate use of imprisonment , and the beginning of a major economic crisis during which the numbers of male unemployed more than doubled by 1976 and increased by a factor of 5 by 1984 , also marked the beginning of the end of the welfarist consensus .
14 Simultaneously in 1986 the ‘ Big Bang ’ reforms saw the end of fixed commissions in the UK .
15 The republican era saw the end of this aristocratic bounty .
16 These two major blows basically saw the end of his racing career , although he continued to compete on BMWs and Nortons again , before retiring in September 1961 following a crash in Sweden .
17 The deposition of Nepos and then that of Romulus Augustulus in 476 saw the end of the line of western Roman emperors .
18 Sadly two of them perished before the end of the war and the two remaining , that I remember well , saw the end of the war .
19 An early breakthrough saw the end of opener Hinks and when Dean Hodgson was trapped lbw by Sladdin for 38 .
20 The trip also saw the end of the group 's work on one of the orphanages in Iasi where volunteers have been renovating the building .
21 I saw the end of it
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