Example sentences of "end the " in BNC.

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1 By following our guidelines and shopping list , you can create a border like this one , ending the season with a cracking display of firework colours
2 Unfortunately , the Heavens opened on finals day , ending the good weather and causing disruptions .
3 AMPLEFORTH entertained Mount St Mary 's on Saturday to lose by a penalty to a goal , a try and two penalties , the 16-3 result ending the run of three unbeaten Ampleforth teams .
4 Paris : Peugeot recovered from its recent weakness , gaining eight francs to 902 on hopes of ending the strike at two plants .
5 It was of prime importance that ‘ money follows the patient ’ , ending the present haphazard funding of patients across district boundaries .
6 Consultant Peter Thompson destroyed a hesitant rally when he forecast the FT-SE share index ending the month at 2,100 or 2,200 points and sinking to 1,800 next year .
7 Mr Patten said the Government wanted to tighten agreements already reached towards ending the depletion of stratospheric ozone .
8 Pyatt , fighting on the same bill , was in equally devastating form ending the challenge of Wayne Harris of Guyana in the third round .
9 By early next week each of the 400 members of the Association of Futures Brokers and Dealers , the self-regulatory organisation for com modities , should have received the latest proposal from the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission for ending the wrangle over London firms doing business for American clients .
10 It included demands for ending the House of Lords and abolishing fox-hunting .
11 Ministers and unions last night said they despaired of ending the dispute .
12 He said that ending the agreement would jeopardise the future of small or family-run shops , lead to fewer books being published and increase prices of all but a few best sellers .
13 Yet with eight sendings-off in all that day there was a case for ending the old year by taking a stand on players ' behaviour in time for the new .
14 President George Bush said yesterday that a special US anti-terrorist team had been sent to El Salvador on Tuesday but had not been involved in ending the siege .
15 ABOUT 400 rebel soldiers returned to their barracks yesterday morning , ending the siege of Makati after they had occupied the capital 's affluent business district for six days .
16 ABOUT 400 rebel soldiers returned to their barracks yesterday morning , ending the siege of Makati after they had occupied the capital 's affluent business district for six days .
17 Sixthly , how would the possible creation of such a German unity fit in with the Helsinki process , and would it promote a constructive evolution of that process in the direction of ending the division of Europe and progressing toward integrated legal , economic , ecological , cultural , and information environments in Europe ?
18 The effect of ending the rule will be to give retailers freedom to choose whether or not to charge the same , whether payment is made by credit card or cash . ’
19 But despite the climb in bank base lending rates to 15 per cent and frequent support from the Bank of England sterling 's effective index is ending the year a full 11 per cent lower at 86.0 .
20 Although the UN Resolution adopted in December 1989 holds great promise as a major step towards ending the use of large-scale drift-nets , the drift-net nations may still be able to manipulate their own data to ‘ prove ’ that drift-nets , if not harmless , at least have no greater effect on marine mammals than other fishing methods , such as purse-seining for tuna .
21 Max Baucus , chairman of the Senate 's international trade subcommittee , talks of ending the Uruguay round and protecting national interests with bilateral agreements , farm subsidies and use of section 301 of America 's trade act to force other countries to open their markets by threatening to close America 's .
22 Military pressure on Mr Gorbachev to find a quick way of ending the war stems from a bigger worry : that , by letting America take over conduct of the war , the Soviet Union will see its influence suffer in the region , especially if American troops stay on once the fighting is over .
23 He talked of opening the economy to the modernising forces of technology and the market , and of ending the corruption that pervades every stratum of an infinitely stratified country .
24 American congressmen will soon be debating the most radical financial reform that country has contemplated since the 1930s , one that could change the links between finance and industry by ending the old separation between commercial and investment banks , and by allowing industrial firms to own banks .
25 This is no pretend story , but one that stresses real earthiness — God 's coming to the profane and ending the separation between sacred and secular .
26 In the poet 's eyes , God has shown his compassion by ending the nuns ’ suffering , whilst enabling them to give heroic testimony to their faith .
27 But , though they both admitted they desired it , they could find no way of ending the arms race .
28 Mr Zamoyski unfolded his arms , shrugged and turned again to the back room , ending the interview .
29 North thought Reagan might qualify , like Teddy Roosevelt , for the Nobel Peace Prize for ending the Iran-Iraq War , and that Secord was directly in line to get the Medal of Freedom .
30 The principal catalyst behind this act was the fact that in September the wavering Châtelherault had come to a decision as a result of Cecil 's help in arranging the escape of his son Arran from France , and finally agreed to join the Lords of the Congregation , thus ending the uneasy situation in which the Hamiltons had dithered between two opposing forces .
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