Example sentences of "was bring [prep] [art] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | The party was brought to an end deliberately , by the Bank of Japan . |
| 2 | During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries the verderers , regarders and agisters usually held office for life , provided that they discharged their duties faithfully and well , but in the fifteenth century the authority of the verderer , like that of the coroner , was brought to an end by the death of the king , and the sheriffs were ordered to hold new elections . |
| 3 | As the argument was brought to an end by Dubroca 's resignation , Ferrasse enraged his countrymen by revealing that one of the English IRB representatives , Albert Agar , had demanded that Dubroca be brought before the Board to account for his behaviour . |
| 4 | Despite the fact that the war with Spain was brought to an end in 1604 , the great majority of the English clergy and laity continued to view Roman Catholicism with the same mixture of deep loathing and suspicion as had their Elizabethan predecessors , regarding it as a serious threat to both their national security and the well-being of their souls . |
| 5 | The second was the period of civil-rights and civil-liberties cases that started with Brown v Board of Education in 1954 and which was brought to an end — according to the conventional wisdom — by the appointment of a block of five ‘ conservative ’ judges by Ronald Reagan and George Bush . |
| 6 | In part it was done by exploiting as fully as possible many small miscellaneous sources of income , such as fines on recusants and the revenue of vacant episcopal sees ; in part by careful and economic management — the household expenses were kept rigidly down in an age of inflation and the building of royal palaces was brought to an end ; in part by rewarding courtiers and officials from wardships and monopolies . |
| 7 | Another conference was held a few months later at Geneva , when France 's colonial war in Indochina was brought to an end . |
| 8 | Finally , on 30 August , the long and divisive debate was brought to an end when the French Assembly refused to ratify EDC . |
| 9 | A general armistice was signed on 4 December and by the treaty of Brest-Litovsk the war was brought to an end . |
| 10 | farther east on the southern frontier , the wars against the Buryats caused great turmoil up to the end of the seventeenth century , when the back-and-forth migrations of Buryat and Mongol clans was brought to an end by the closing of the frontier between the Russian Empire and Chinese ‘ Outer Mongolia ’ . |
| 11 | Ultimately the Fund was overwhelmed by claims as the merchant marine expanded in the nineteenth century and it was brought to an end in 1851 . |
| 12 | The independent Civil Service Department suggested by Fulton was also created but was brought to an end in 1981 . |
| 13 | In 1974 an attempt to begin to restore self-government through a new Northern Ireland Executive , elected by proportional representation to try to provide for the involvement of the Catholic minority in government , was brought to an end after a strike by Protestant workers . |
| 14 | The propaganda campaign against the deployment of Euromissiles was lost , despite considerable public opposition in the countries concerned ; and the war in Afghanistan was brought to an end , because of its cost as well as unpopularity , on terms that offered no guarantee the Najibullah government would survive or that external intervention in its affairs would cease ( it finally collapsed in 1992 ) . |
| 15 | On May 27 , 1990 , a major rail strike was brought to an end following the intervention of Walesa , who urged strikers to negotiate a return to work . |
| 16 | The September ceasefire mediated by Russia between Georgian government troops and separatist Abkhazian forces [ see p. 39110 ] was brought to an end on Oct. 2 , when the latter overran Gagra , on the Black Sea coast . |
| 17 | Additionally , because Acme made two copies instead of the one permitted under the licence agreement , it was in breach of that agreement and , depending on the terms in the licence dealing with breach , may find that the licence was brought to an end and that the purported transfer to Zenith is void . |
| 18 | The region remained peaceful during the Crimean War , however , and Shamil 's twenty-five-year career was brought to an end in 1859 ( five years after Vorontsov retired ) . |