Example sentences of "end of [adj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In December , 12 new proposals were submitted by members or by groups of countries , and GATT stated that by the end of 1989 a total of 14 proposals ( from 28 countries ) had been put forward on the question of standards and norms alone and nine ( from 23 countries ) on the question of enforcement of IPRs , while a large number of other proposals dealt with further important aspects of the negotiating brief . |
| 2 | At the end of 1989 a Taiwanese delegation returned from the Soviet Union after apparently fruitful discussions about prospects for trade in Soviet raw materials and Taiwanese consumer goods . |
| 3 | In the mid-1950s a company of the Girls ' Life Brigade was formed with Mrs J H Montgomery as Captain and by the end of 1955 a Lifeboy Team was in existence . |
| 4 | At the end of 1986 a group of professors , doctors and nutritionists in Britain produced a book repudiating ‘ crude and simplistic propaganda ’ about foods alleged to be healthy and unhealthy . |
| 5 | For example , at the end of 1986 a small fund owned and administered by a group of workers in a nationalized industry which we shall call ‘ The General Sickness and Funeral Fund ’ had the following investments : Notes : The figures for the gross yield on equities takes into account the time over which the investment has been held ( unstated ) and can not be used as a holding period return for CAPM as the periods are unequal . |
| 6 | However , at the end of 1981 a new superintendent instituted changes which included moving a number of the area 's community police-officers to other duties and clamping down on the activities by local youths which had previously been tolerated . |
| 7 | We can see more clearly now that the ultimate end of such a process — the flood entirely tamed — is both impossible and undesirable . |
| 8 | The end of such a partnership as ours can not be long delayed . |
| 9 | And , at the end of such a period , if American troops were still abroad it would be unthinkable for Congress to sabotage their position by denying the chief executive a declaration of war . |
| 10 | The consequences of being on the receiving end of such a notice are , of course , little less severe than when an expulsion is put into effect . |
| 11 | Instead , she felt frozen by a sense of desolation that she would never be on the receiving end of such a display of warmth from Guido . |
| 12 | What importance is the colour of his attire when at the end of many a day the master and his bullying gang 's regalia will all doubtless be red with the blood of the helpless abused fox . |
| 13 | At the end of 1972 a commission under the chairmanship of Lord Diplock reported on the legal procedures to deal with terrorist activities in Northern Ireland . |
| 14 | The intention was to introduce by the end of 1993 a system , TAURUS , complementing TALISMAN , whereby , once a bargain in fully-paid listed securities was struck , the buyer would become , and the seller , in respect of the shares sold , would cease to be , a member and shareholder . |
| 15 | At the end of 1988 a series of amendments to the 1977 " Brezhnev Constitution " were adopted which established a 2,250-member Congress of People 's Deputies as the USSR 's supreme representative body . |