Example sentences of "[vb -s] to a end " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the term draws to an end , his desire for her dominates his letters . |
| 2 | Many years later , as The Return of the King draws to an end , Bilbo gives a markedly different version sitting in Rivendell , having heard Frodo tell the story of the destruction of the Ring and , in his advanced old age , having failed to understand most of it : |
| 3 | Such contracts enable the latter to adjust their seasonal labour force downwards to cope with any less busy periods within the summer season and , more important , to run their labour forces down gradually as the season draws to an end and the number of guests tails off . |
| 4 | Meanwhile the notion of education as an instrument , or means to an end , was subject to pressures of a quite different kind . |
| 5 | Animals are not self-conscious and are there merely as means to an end . |
| 6 | Now Kant does argue that animals exist ‘ merely as means to an end ’ which involves man . |
| 7 | Most barons saw their papers as means to an end . |
| 8 | The formation of Compartners SRO puts to an end the sole distributor status of Prague-based Sofram , and Swallow has set Compartners the target of matching Sofram 's 1992 revenues this year — he estimates this at $2m . |
| 9 | The death of Dr Julius Grant brings to an end a life of determination and distinction , which progressed from a deserved reputation in paper chemistry to an international career in forensic science . |
| 10 | The green light for the X100 brings to an end nine months of heart searching at Browns Lane while Ford invited its own design offices to submit plans for a new Jaguar sports car . |
| 11 | This article brings to an end the current series on colour mixing . |
| 12 | The agreement , which was announced by the Department of Health , brings to an end six years of controversy over the future of the Adelaide . |
| 13 | Three years after publisher Robert Maxwell sacked twenty one journalists from the Pergamon Press company , it 's been announced tonight that they 're to be paid thousands of pounds in compensation.The deal brings to an end one of the longest runing disputes in British trade union history . |
| 14 | The closure brings to an end 67 years of rayon activity at Cornwall , making it by far the Group 's longest surviving manufacturing unit . |
| 15 | Estate duty reliefs carried forward to CTT include freedom from tax where an interest in settled property comes to a end during the settlor 's life and the property then reverts to him ( unless , of course , the reverter is by reason of his purchase of the reversionary interest ) ; and an allowance analogous to the old Quick Succession Allowance where within four years there has been more than one chargeable transfer il which the value transferred has been determined by reference to the value of the same settled property in which an interest in possession subsists . |
| 16 | Begin with a light regime and then gradually increase the work-load as the acute phase ( the period when the injury is most painful but the effects have not yet manifested themselves ) comes to an end . |
| 17 | After Brunnhilde throws herself on to the pyre Valhalla comes to an end , to be replaced by a new era of human love . |
| 18 | Salut ! as long-running French drinks feud comes to an end . |
| 19 | The holder of such an estate in land is , like an owner , entitled to the possession , use , and enjoyment of the land , and he can dispose of his interest ; but at the death of the person by whose life the extent of his estate is measured , the estate comes to an end , and nothing passes from the holder . |
| 20 | The right to a trade mark can be assigned only in connection with the goodwill of the business concerned in the goods for which it has been registered , and comes to an end with that goodwill . |
| 21 | After an eternity or two , the film comes to an end . |
| 22 | As the curative curve of a particular remedy comes to an end , the vital force has only the excess artificial disease stimulus of the remedy to respond to — susceptibility having been satisfied . |
| 23 | Beyond , a lane — called Long Lane — branches left and comes to an end after two miles with Clapham Beck down on the left and the limestone scars of Norber up on the right . |
| 24 | Occasionally , employers argue that a prolonged illness ‘ frustrates ’ the contract , so that the job comes to an end through operation of the law as a result of the unforeseen occurrence of the sickness , without there being a dismissal . |
| 25 | If you are employed under a fixed-term contract which comes to an end and is not renewed , you may be redundant . |
| 26 | On the other hand , where a contract for a specific purpose comes to an end , there is no dismissal . |
| 27 | Even if it is clear that you have been dismissed , the precise date when your employment comes to an end may be unclear . |
| 28 | This is another reason why a well-advised employer who offers you an ex gratia payment when your job comes to an end is likely to insist that you are effectively prevented in law from making any further claim against him ( see Chapter 19 ) . |
| 29 | For another section of women , childcare never comes to an end even when the children have become adults . |
| 30 | In the towns , the main struggle for the economic model comes to an end with the victory of the proletariat ; in the country … it is resurrected in other forms as a struggle between the state planning of a proletariat which embodies socialised labour and the commodity anarchy , the speculative licence of a peasantry which embodies scattered property and the anarchic element of the market … a simple commodity economy is merely the embryo of a capitalist economy … |