Example sentences of "a [noun] to the end of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Former England skipper Butcher , 34 next week , has a contract to the end of the season at Roker Park . |
| 2 | However , ‘ he remained in heart a clergyman to the end of his days ’ . |
| 3 | 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 " . |
| 4 | Partnering for them is a means to the end of parenting . |
| 5 | Sen , for instance , considered national economic development to be only a means to the end of better living standards . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Setting aside the final volume as the copter 's blades slowed , Duroc mused that Gibbon was sending a message to the end of the 20th Century , a message he had never realized was implicit in his text . |
| 8 | He said , ‘ Now what I have in mind is a stroll to the end of the valley just to see what goes on there , then back to the car and home for tea , how about that ? ’ |
| 9 | Before the Gulf war the International Civil Aviation Organisation forecast that international scheduled-passenger traffic in the region would grow by 10.5% a year to the end of the century , compared with global growth of only 6.7% . |
| 10 | ‘ The demand for new houses is forecast at about 200,000 a year to the end of the century , ’ says the report . |
| 11 | As a result of such consultation it is planned that over the period 1989–90 to 1999–2000 there should be an increase in total ( FTE ) graduate numbers of around 700 ( home/EC and overseas ) , a significant proportion of which has already been achieved ; this would allow room for undergraduates to increase by 1,300 and for the overall growth of the University to be contained within the broad policy approved by Congregation of 1 per cent a year to the end of the decade . |
| 12 | The addition of an -e to the end of a simple consonant-vowel-constant word ( e.g. hat , cap , pin ) is a way of indicating a change in the way the vowel sound is to be pronounced . |