Example sentences of "ended in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A protracted final " make or break " negotiating session began in Luxembourg on Oct. 22 and ended in the early morning of Oct. 23 with the conclusion of an agreement between the seven-member European Free Trade Association ( EFTA ) and the 12-member European Communities ( EC ) on the creation from January 1993 of a common European Economic Area ( EEA ) , the world 's largest common market embracing 380 million people . |
| 2 | Scotland 's trip to Argentina began with a wave of nationalist euphoria and ended in the complete ignominy of their exuberant manager scuttling around a field hiding pep-pills . |
| 3 | The story of the London dock strike which began on 14 August 1889 and ended in the so-called Mansion House Agreement on the following 14 September has often been told . |
| 4 | This isolated existence was ended in the 1850s when external pressures from Western powers forced Japan to re-open diplomatic and trading links . |
| 5 | For Jacob reunion with his brother has begun and ended in the same way . |
| 6 | Having entered the Merchant Navy at the age of fifteen , he had jumped ship into the US Navy and ended in the Royal Navy for whom he played seventeen seasons of rugby . |
| 7 | The ceasefire has ended in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo . |
| 8 | Disputes over opting out have ended in the High Court on several occasions . |
| 9 | It was reported in February 1990 that victims of nuclear testing in the islands , which had ended in the 1950s , would receive $45,000,000 in compensation from the USA . |
| 10 | A doctor is called , and he 's diagnosed as having a minor case of blood poisoning , caused by drinking too heavily ( a three-day stint which started on the transatlantic flight and ended in the White Horse Tavern ) . |