Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] to [art] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lash and Urry ( 1987 ) , for instance , write of the break-up of ‘ organized capitalism ’ and the development of ‘ disorganized capitalism ’ , in the variable responses of the United States and some of the West European nations to the end of the post-war boom ; Piore and Sabel ( 1984 ) write of a ‘ second industrial divide ’ opening up in societies as a result of the development of flexible manufacturing systems . |
| 2 | The war brought this link to an end . |
| 3 | Harry withdrew inch by inch along the dim passageway to the end , where he could have the wall on two sides of him , and flattened himself into the last shallow embrasure , beneath the last curved corbel . |
| 4 | The registration of a Class F Land Charge against the husband is not sufficient protection as the death of the estate owner brings this protection to an end ( Matrimonial Homes Act 1983 , s2(4) ) . |
| 5 | Yes we could do so it would be a matter of judgement for the er er for the Home Secretary how far to take it and he would have to balance the likelihood of er other countries all ratifying and the inconvenience to those taking part in the election here er if er there is some uncertainty to the end and maybe having to revert to the current constituencies , er I hope and expect that these matters will be settled in the next few weeks . |
| 6 | I am an elected representative of the people of Northern Ireland , three thousand three hundred of our people have been murdered , that 's the equivalent of a hundred thousand people in Britain , it is the responsibility of every elected representative to do everything in their power , everything in their power , to stop that , The least responsibility that they have , the least they can do , is enter into dialogue directly with the people involved and I apologize to no-one for that , and if anybody is telling me that I 'm tainted because I do that , you know , I do n't know what sort of minds they 've got , because I think it 's our responsibility to do everything in our power to bring this violence to an end , and what 's more , what I 'm doing has massive support of ordinary people on both sections of our community because I have never in my twenty years experienced the nature of the support and the way that it 's being expressed to me by people in the streets , by telephone , and in particular by |
| 7 | Home Office figures published yesterday show that 49,200 people were accepted for settlement in the 12 months to the end of September . |
| 8 | The action project began on 1 April 1984 and any people aged 65 or over who were referred to the hospital psychogeriatric service during the 12 months to the end of March 1985 and who were diagnosed as suffering from dementia , became members of the action sample if they lived in the action area , and of the control sample if their home was in the control area ( so long as they were not living permanently in an institution at the time of referral and they or their carers gave consent for their inclusion ) . |
| 9 | A total of 5.1 million notifiable offences were recorded by the police in the 12 months to the end of September 1991 , the latest period for which firm figures are available . |
| 10 | He described the results for the 12 months to the end of March as ‘ the best we could have hoped for ’ . |
| 11 | Figures for people waiting between one and two years for treatment had also dropped by around 400 to 4,355 in the 12 months to the end of February . |
| 12 | In the 12 months to the end of March last year , BET 's pre-tax profits slumped to £18.5 million , from £217 million the previous year . |
| 13 | Results for the 12 months to the end of December are expected shortly along with an announcement on the progress of loan renegotiations . |
| 14 | The man was a lively orator to the end , and an expert in his field . |
| 15 | He maintained this attitude to the end . |
| 16 | Deeply kind and warm-hearted , despite her somewhat formidable exterior and a conversational style which could tend towards the monologue , she remained a generous radical to the end , one of the few of her generation who integrated the immense energy and self-confidence of the Ascendancy families into modern Irish life . |
| 17 | A direct return to the end of Long Lane may be made by crossing the depression of Clapham Bottoms . |
| 18 | Something has to be done to bring this mess to an end . |
| 19 | A generous coating to the end grain joints , before bringing them together , offers a lot of protection , and a little polythene and sticky tape will keep things dry . |
| 20 | He usually left this shop to the end because they rarely gave him an order and the road was one he hated . |
| 21 | Hall implied that adolescence covered the years from sexual maturity to the end of physical growth in a person 's twenties , which was not dissimilar to the early nineteenth-century concept of youth , but all those who followed Hall equated it with the teen years . |
| 22 | You really must bring this outrage to an end . |
| 23 | But Christmas undoubtedly brought some cheer to the end of 1992 . |
| 24 | Housing conditions and shortages , for example , are likely to be a major source of disadvantage and discomfort to millions of old people to the end of the century and beyond , and one on which individual workers , even managers , have relatively little impact . |
| 25 | It , it , it 's a different means to an end , it 's a much slower means to an end |
| 26 | De Beauvoir maintained rigid control over certain areas of her emotional and sexual life to the end of her days , yet some things she publicly , if not privately repressed have recently resurfaced . |
| 27 | We need to know exactly what damage a product is doing to the environment — from the mining of its raw materials to the end of its life . |
| 28 | He seems to have maintained this style to the end . |
| 29 | A quick remedy is to tie a light handkerchief to the end of the existing tail . |
| 30 | To relax , said George , they 'd sometimes take the 113 bus to the end of the line at Shoreditch and then walk home . |