Example sentences of "[noun pl] put an [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But although I scarcely , if ever , thought about sex , I wallowed in thoughts of death , utilising them , rather than death itself , to bear or deny my increasing depression instead of taking steps to put an end to it . |
| 2 | ‘ Steady , Bessie , ’ said Joe , who did n't intend to ask the ultimate of any woman until he 'd acquired enough savings to put an end to his career as a forger . |
| 3 | And and employers put an end to people . |
| 4 | And the continuous loops put an end to tangled cords . |
| 5 | The trial of his killers has been regarded as a test of the political will of the authorities to put an end to the climate of impunity prevalent in the rural areas of Brazil , where scores of peasants and their leaders have been killed by hired gunmen . |
| 6 | It is also one of their plans to put an end to the " danger of communism " through combating these social blights . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , by this time the violence provoked by the new anti-Semitic wave and incited by propaganda had put the ‘ Jewish Question ’ back in a high place on the agenda , and pressure was mounting from within the Party for anti-Semitic legislation to fulfil the aims of the Party programme , and from the public for regulations to put an end to the ‘ individual actions ’ which had characterized the summer of violence . |
| 8 | A CHILEAN boxing champion is on a hunger strike and an Argentinian doctor is being taken to court as a result of an attempt by doctors to put an end to professional boxing in Chile . |
| 9 | Early in the nineteenth century the Devon was shipped to Tasmania and was exported to mainland Australia at intervals during the century until health restrictions put an end to imports . |
| 10 | They also sit oddly with the vow of federal trustbusters to put an end to the years of neglect when President Reagan virtually suspended the nation 's antitrust laws by cheerfully failing to enforce them . |
| 11 | The Communist party had kicked out most reformers after Warsaw Pact tanks put an end to the Prague Spring in 1968 . |