Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] to the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was about 13 miles from Hotel Vancouver and was reached by driving through Stanley Park , across the Lions ' Gate Bridge , then turning left through West Vancouver to the end of Marine Drive . |
| 2 | There are many parents who remain in good health both mentally and physically to the day of their death , even if their physical strength is reduced , and it becomes no longer desirable for them to live alone ; and there are many daughters who share their homes in an atmosphere of personal freedom , happiness and fulfilment , enjoying their companionship right to the end . |
| 3 | I thought of the most dedicated cricket fanatic I had ever known back in South Africa — a man who despite repeated heart attacks , doctors ' warnings and family entreaties to stop playing the game , had persisted with club cricket to the end , in his sixties diving after slip catches as recklessly as he had in his teens . |
| 4 | Mrs Georgina Docherty , Mother Glasgow to the end , said ‘ He is not anyone . |
| 5 | They took an early lead , held on to their advantage right to the end and , despite a keenly fought contest , had a comfortable win . |
| 6 | Lit claims to have become chairman of four companies which control between them 45 per cent of Spectrum 's stock and is pledging to fight Harmony Investments to the end . |
| 7 | Blocked negotiations with the unions resumed at the end of January , opening up the possibility of extending the deadline for job losses to the end of 1994 . |
| 8 | Three sectors in particular are identified as the predominant job creators to the end of the decade : business services ( 215,000 jobs ) , hotel and catering ( 120,000 jobs ) and wholesale distribution ( 70,000 jobs ) . |
| 9 | was full of praise for the way employees continued to make top quality product right to the end . |
| 10 | The EC Commission said much the same in its submission to the Energy Committee : ‘ At the present time the FBR is the only reactor type which could , if introduced early enough , extend the lifetime of our uranium resources to the end of the next century — and beyond . ’ |
| 11 | Beckett , who fine-toned his philosophy of life to its very essentials , not surprisingly remained a Guinness drinker to the end . |
| 12 | If he did not touch such heights again , he remained a thoroughly reliable keeper right to the end , small , neat and quiet , and rarely given to histrionics . |
| 13 | Earnings per share fell from 27.3p to 15.8p , but BG will pay a total dividend of 14.2p for last year , against 10.25p paid for the nine-month trading period to the end of 1991 . |
| 14 | First of all , unlike the -ing form , the infinitive always produces a representation of an event seen as a whole , i.e. either as a single instant of a state-like event or as a movement from the beginning limit to the end of an action-like one ( cf. |
| 15 | He remained loyal to Mrs Thatcher to the end , pleading with her to stay on . |
| 16 | Computerised sickness absence records to the end of March 1988 were obtained annually from the civil service pay centres . |
| 17 | The daily France Soir devoted two broadsheet pages to the end of ‘ 11 Years of Love , Romance and Tears ’ . |
| 18 | Jefferson , whose eloquence on the theme of natural equality is constantly reiterated and was even written into the American Declaration of Independence , remained a slave owner to the end of his life . |
| 19 | Our own surveys confirm a strong switch towards optimism between our Mid-Term Wave in 1986 and our Pre-Campaign Wave in March 1987 , but over the relatively short period from our Pre-Campaign Wave to the end of the campaign overall trends in economic perceptions were small . |
| 20 | Make the Light Leek Sauce to the end of stage 2 . |
| 21 | It requires a broader approach than task analysis in that it often involves tracing the acquisition of the skill starting from the kind of persons who undertake training ( the selection criteria ) through the training procedures to the end product ( the training success criteria ) . |
| 22 | At Wandsworth , it was a seven-minute walk from the bus stop to the end of Varney Street . |
| 23 | The Abbey National was less sanguine : ‘ This could effectively put a seal on the property market to the end of the year , ’ said a spokesman . |
| 24 | Now in the heart of the decoration area of Bath , stretching from the London Road to the end of Walcot Street , we come on Penny Philip whose small shop is a shrine to period textiles : toile de Jouy , Scandinavian bedlinens and shawls are displayed on decorative iron furniture . |
| 25 | At such a point , the system implied by the technology of production — the kinship system , the system of property allocation , the political system , and the State — come into contradiction with each other , and in this way lead to the end of one stage and the appearance of another . |
| 26 | The second defines a procedure which clears from the current cursor position to the end of line on an 80 column screen . |
| 27 | Make the Glazed Lemon Puddings to the end of stage 2 . |
| 28 | The Chamonix guides ' association say that 47 climbers died this year in the Mont Blanc range to the end of August — equal to the total for the whole of last year . |
| 29 | We might finally note that the court is able to rely as an aid to discovering intention on the proposition that what no reasonable board could have believed to be beneficial to the company , the actual board could not have believed either , or , in other words , that where the means adopted could not on any reasonable view lead to the end of benefiting the company , the directors could not have been motivated by a desire to achieve that end . |
| 30 | Frankie , who was seventy-five , died on Easter Sunday but was an entertainer right to the end . |