Example sentences of "a end the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The General Strike is often taken as the symbol of the industrial relations of these years — and is seen as an event which brought to an end the militant trade unionism of almost two decades . |
| 2 | The General Strike is often taken as the symbol for the industrial relations of these years — and is seen as an event which brought to an end the militant trade unionism of almost two decades . |
| 3 | At first Christians looked upon the risen Jesus as the Messiah whose return was imminent and would bring to an end the existing world-order . |
| 4 | Everyone was too interested in singing to the actions of the game to take much notice , but as the game came to an end the Brownies saw that Brown Owl was gazing upwards with a rather troubled look on her face . |
| 5 | Such acceptance would make it possible to bring to an end the constant friction and disagreement between science and religion ; for religion , with its ‘ god ’ defined independently of the origin of the world or of life , would not be concerned with those origins , and would be completely unaffected by scientific advance . |
| 6 | As 1745 , a year of defeat and near disaster , came to an end the government in London was far more concerned about the enemy presence just across the Channel than the more distant one beyond the Scottish border . |
| 7 | As the 1980s came to an end the fitness movement worldwide had become a £1 billion industry . |
| 8 | It is hard to exaggerate the importance of this development , which , for reasons purely of financial accountability , involved the Colonial Office intimately in economic planning for the empire and thus helped to bring to an end the old imperial system in which colonies had puttered along as virtually independent satrapies , with the Colonial Office exercising only a watching brief . |
| 9 | But perhaps Governor Clinton 's most remarkable achievement will have been bringing to an end the Reagan-Bush years . |
| 10 | This brought to an end the short life of the Basque Republic of Euskadi , which under its president , Aguirre , had been waging what was very much its own war . |
| 11 | An annual subscription of £21 to the funds of Bedford County Hospital was sanctioned , thereby bringing to an end the disagreement which had begun 10 years earlier . |
| 12 | If he has any social reform plans , he should approach the Minister of Health who is at this very moment bringing to an end the old Poor Law … ’ |
| 13 | The formation of Compartners SRO puts to an end the sole distributor status of Prague-based Sofram , and Swallow has set Compartners the target of matching Sofram 's 1992 revenues this year — he estimates this at $2m . |
| 14 | His legal advisers are anxious to establish a functioning police and judiciary system so that Somalis can begin to administer themselves — and thus bring to an end the violent anarchy that has caused the death from famine of up to 400,000 people . |
| 15 | A government of national salvation by another name , it includes several non-party technocrats , the leader of the Greens and , most important , three members of the Democratic Party of the Left ( PDS ) , bringing to an end the former Communists ' 45 years of political ostracism . |
| 16 | They forbade lavish wedding ceremonies , bringing to an end the glitzy Punjabi wedding . |
| 17 | It would transfer supervision of the areas from the Bureau of Land Management ( BLM ) to the National Parks Service and would bring to an end the existing cattle ranching , mining activity and off-road vehicle use . |
| 18 | Earlier the same year it had been preceded by a Criminal Law Act which brought to an end the time-honoured division of crimes into felonies and misdemeanours , as well as abolishing certain obsolete crimes and the torts of maintenance and champerty on the recommendation of the Law Commission . |
| 19 | It brought to an end the era of amphibians and it was introduced by the next great group to appear , the reptiles . |
| 20 | By proclaiming the arrival of democracy , and with it " the end of ideology " and ideological politics , the revisionists of the 1950s perhaps hoped to bring to an end the perennial debate about democracy . |
| 21 | And in 1937 , just as their " reign " was coming to an end the Bugatti claimed one of racing 's greatest prizes by winning Le Mans with Wimille and Robert Benoist in the driving seat . |
| 22 | The end of the Persian War did not bring to an end the Athenian Empire , though the existence of the confederacy was now harder to justify . |
| 23 | Any possibility of this , he concluded , was ruled out by the Merchant Shipping Act 1854 which finally brought to an end the provisions of the Navigation Acts , ( already repealed in other respects in 1849 ) that all seamen on coasting vessels , and three-quarters of crews on ships in foreign trade , were to be British . |
| 24 | By the mid-1970s the ‘ bulge ’ had nearly worked its way through the system , and this , together with disillusion with innovation in education , brought to an end the role of the education service as an expenditure growth-leader among the public services . |
| 25 | And er the War ended as you know in November eighteen and er when the War came to an end the the Government introduced a form of service whereas if er we youngsters volunteered say if you volunteered for two year they gave you twenty pound and two months leave you see , if you volunteered for three year they gave you forty pound or was it thirty , thirty forty , and er three months leave . |
| 26 | This article brings to an end the current series on colour mixing . |
| 27 | Despite assuring the Radio Authority last Friday that Spectrum 's troubles were now at an end the station is now threatened with a court case brought by Lit to prove the EGM was illegal . |
| 28 | This may be reflected in the faunal changes and may have brought to an end the stable conditions represented by the pure quartzites that extend all the way from the Welsh borderland to Morocco . |
| 29 | ‘ Formally , the Tyrrell Society came to an end the day of Ramsey 's funeral . |
| 30 | As all things in life fade and come to an end the poet realises so must he . |