Example sentences of "end a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In JOURNEY 'S END a small group of British Officers have no choice but to do their duty in France in 1918 . |
| 2 | To this end a comprehensive review of the training and examination syllabus has been undertaken and we are now embarking on a period of consultation with a view to implementing a more up-to-date system in two years ' time . |
| 3 | Others , like yourself , are aware that in the end a new baby is normally incorporated into the financial structure of family life somehow or other . |
| 4 | The technical improvements of this period centred around the problem of increasing the fire-power of armies ; and towards this end a good deal of progress was made . |
| 5 | In the end a totalitarian state says that everything which exists belongs to it . |
| 6 | In the end a narrow majority endorsed the declaration as proposed by radical delegates from West Siberia 's Kuzbass coalfield , who had forced the issue by voting on Oct. 25 to set up a new union whether or not the congress supported them . |
| 7 | His murder brought to an end a political dynasty stretching back through his mother Indira Gandhi to Jawaharlal Nehru , Indira 's father and India 's first Prime Minister . |
| 8 | To add to my worries , committee ‘ A ’ decided that there was a need to provide guidance material in Annex 13 as to the manner in which an aircraft accident investigation should be organised ; to this end a working group would be set up , charged with the duty of presenting a draft report with recommendations to the committee and ultimately to the meeting . |
| 9 | The transepts have barrel vaults and the east end a semi-circular vault . |
| 10 | At the far end a rocky promontory extended into deep water — a promising place for snorkelling . |
| 11 | In the end a strange combination of working-class agitation and pressure from outside of the state system together with an increasingly confident upper-class establishment inside the system anticipating the pressures for change and trying to contain them both served to encourage the Conservatives to pass the Reform Act , 167 . |
| 12 | The passage by the House of representatives of a civil rights bill by 381 votes to 38 on Nov. 7 , following Senate approval by 93 votes to 5 on Oct. 30 , brought to an end a two-year battle for enactment which had included Bush 's 1990 veto of a previous bill and months of inconclusive efforts in mid-1991 by Democratic and moderate Republican senators to work out a compromise with the administration [ see p. 38381 ] . |
| 13 | The incident brought to an end a month-long period of peace in Kashmir , and dashed hopes of a reduction in the border tension . |
| 14 | In the end a meaningless compromise was made , and the Conference called on all good men to come together to resist socialism , but also insisted that the Unionist party should not sacrifice any of its independence in the process . |
| 15 | In the novel I can believe he is saying such things , perhaps because I am hearing his voice in my head , in the privacy of my own mind ( I am thinking him ) and I am extremely relieved to hear him say them because his words bring to an end a certain kind of conflict between himself and Connie . |
| 16 | This brought to an end a two-week crisis which had presented the first serious threat to communist rule in Albania since its establishment during the Second World War . |
| 17 | The accident brought to an end a promising army career which began in December 1986 when he was 17 . |
| 18 | And it would bring to an end a promising era of Security Council co-operation . |
| 19 | To this end a medical degree was essential , and he undertook his clinical training at St Bartholomew 's Hospital , where he again excelled . |
| 20 | THE Football Association are to bring to an end a lucrative film contract after being embarrassed by the notorious Vinnie Jones video , writes Rob Shepherd . |
| 21 | At the end a creative response may be required . |
| 22 | In the end a single telephone call to London saved us before we could say Jack Robinson . |
| 23 | At one end is a row of tenements , in the middle are stone family houses and at the far end a council-run hostel for people with alcohol-related problems . |
| 24 | In the end a brief report would be published . |
| 25 | Michelle Pfeiffer was expected to be cast alongside Michael Douglas in Carolco 's forthcoming ‘ Basic Instinct ’ ; in the end a less-costly actress , Sharon Stone , was chosen . |
| 26 | To this end a double-entry system of bookkeeping , where each debit has a corresponding credit entry , will be used , which provides an arithmetic check of the books . |
| 27 | At the beginning of the poem Wordsworth is a boy , at the end a mature man , capable of recognizing adult experience , even the experience of middle and old age . |
| 28 | The surgeon mounts it on the side of the operating table and fixes to the end a surgical instrument or a biopsy needle for taking samples of tissue . |
| 29 | To this end a three-phrase programme has been adopted ( i ) Laying the Foundations ( April 1987 – July 1988 ) ; ( ii ) Infrastructural Development ( April 1988 – July 1990 ) ; ( iii ) Internal Consolidation and Image Promotion ( April 1990 – July 1992 ) . |