Example sentences of "a [noun] to [art] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , he sees this fat cunt with some of his mates with some tea — and he 's moved along a bit to the end and he 's pissing down and out through the open bit and its all blowing down on these cunts ’ heads and into their |
| 2 | Fast forward it a bit to the end . |
| 3 | Former England skipper Butcher , 34 next week , has a contract to the end of the season at Roker Park . |
| 4 | Appropriately , for one named after a wife-murderer , Mr Punch remained a misogynist to the end . |
| 5 | For Swindon voters young and old , it 'll be a nailbiter to the end . |
| 6 | We were just walking off the 18th — with yet another par , and yet another good one but without a birdie to the end — when the crowd started fidgeting because they were looking at the scoreboard . |
| 7 | However , ‘ he remained in heart a clergyman to the end of his days ’ . |
| 8 | You can move from the beginning of a disc to the end in about five seconds . |
| 9 | Only days before the verdict was announced the Rev. Al Sharpton , a black Baptist minister , warned the white community that unless both Fama and Mondello were convicted of murder " you are lighting a match to the end of a powder keg and telling us to burn the town down " . |
| 10 | On the Green that night I was ready to say I had backed a loser , and to be graceful in defeat , a gentleman to the end . |
| 11 | Partnering for them is a means to the end of parenting . |
| 12 | Sen , for instance , considered national economic development to be only a means to the end of better living standards . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , responsiveness or sensitivity in such instances is only a means to the end , which is to effect change of some kind . |
| 14 | For codified constitutions are , after all , valued as a means to the end of limiting governmental power ; and , in a democracy , limiting also the power of the people to whom government is responsible . |
| 15 | A much safer route to travel is that which Mr Garton Ash approves only as a means to an end , namely that of encouraging urgent reform in the German Democratic Republic , but as a separate state with a future of its own . |
| 16 | Freedom is valuable and is valued by the public as an end in itself , but as a means to an end it has proved a failure . |
| 17 | Rap as a means to an end ; with the Blackwatch group , the hard line message is in the music |
| 18 | Whatever the outcome , in Qaddafi 's ideology community sovereignty was a means to an end : he intended the abolition of central government to liberate individuals , to enable them to exercise power directly and to bypass intervening agencies which obstructed the will of the people . |
| 19 | These should be viewed as a means to an end , rather than as ends in themselves . |
| 20 | However , participation is seldom evaluated as a means to an end , that is effectiveness , she maintains . |
| 21 | There is considerable debate about the value of education for its own sake , rather than as a means to an end . |
| 22 | Coercion is possible when there is a government willing to use state power , but it also fails — not solely because coercion as a means to an end tends to fail but because both programmes , in order to achieve any impact , involved very large numbers of people , even the majority , which implies serious problems for the logistics of coercion and of mass political backlash . |
| 23 | It is reactionary only when one is concerned about conformity for its own sake , obedience as an end in itself , rather than as a means to an end . |
| 24 | It should help you if you think of discipline as a means to an end , not an end in itself . |
| 25 | In an organisation such as a hospital , communicating is a means to an end but in some organisations it is an end in itself . |
| 26 | Whether an end in itself , or a means to an end , communicating in some form or other permeates every aspect of living — maintaining a safe environment , eating and drinking , dressing , working and playing , expressing sexuality and so on . |
| 27 | When asked a question such as ‘ What do you do ? ’ , it is implied that something more should be going on , that standing around on a comer must be a means to an end . |
| 28 | Such demands highlight the extent to which geographic information management must be regarded as a means to an end rather than an end in itself when viewed from the standpoints of the needs of planners and decision-makers . |
| 29 | There would always have been ambivalence towards her charges because they were not only a means to an end , but also rivals for the limited rations of parental attention . |
| 30 | Since the age of seventeen , Margaret had regarded her body as a tradeable commodity ; she saw a fortnightly meeting between the sheets with an elderly bookmaker as an investment , a means to an end . |