Example sentences of "to [det] ends " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Dass could n't understand how a set of curtains for the stage at the Easter Fete could have driven a boy to such ends . |
| 2 | To these ends , longer and new crop rotations can be introduced . |
| 3 | To these ends , the most extravagant claims were made . |
| 4 | In such an ethic , my rational ends at any one time would be the goals , whether of long-term ambition or of momentary caprice , to which I spontaneously tend in the fullest awareness then available , and all my deliberate acts would be means to these ends . |
| 5 | To these ends , other means have been developed over the years , most assiduously in the three Northern Tier states . |
| 6 | To these ends the Duke of Northumberland financed a publishing house , the Boswell Publishing Company , in 1921 and established a weekly newspaper , The Patriot , in 1922 . |
| 7 | To these ends a Coordinating Team , an Inservice Panel , and a school library/ resources committee were established as key bodies in making the project possible . |
| 8 | Moral careers are being fought out ; property and spatial relations being used as means to these ends . |
| 9 | Stimson and US secretary of state Cordell Hull were convinced that world peace and prosperity were two sides of the same coin , with " unhampered trade " as a major means to those ends . |
| 10 | The leaves are long , bright green , faintly crispate , translucent , tapering to both ends , bearing a midrib and 2 or 3 pairs of lateral veins running to the tip of the leaf-blade , and numerous cross-veins . |
| 11 | close it to both ends . |