Example sentences of "[adj] to the end of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He deserves most of the credit for the Welsh Intermediate Education Act of 1889 ; and from 1895 to the end of his life he was president of the University College at Aberystwyth , to which he regularly contributed £1,000 a year . |
| 2 | Obviously , to take this to the end of the line is impossible and as pointless as a dog chasing its tail . |
| 3 | His creativity continued unabated to the end of his life , but his efficiency in administration and political reform soon led to enormous demands being made on his time . |
| 4 | This program provides a formatted listing of the status and attributes of all hard copy volumes in use for a LIFESPAN process similar to the end of run summary generated by the HARDCOPY FORMATTER . |
| 5 | The laissez-faire economy was conceived of as international , and indeed from the 1840s to the end of the century thousands emigrated from Britain . |
| 6 | Home of Sir Winston Churchill from 1924 to the end of his life . |
| 7 | Comité de forces vives , brought tens of thousands of people on to the streets of the capital , Antananarivo , each day from June 10 to the end of the month to demonstrate for far-reaching political reforms . |
| 8 | The exhibition examines the close political links between the art of nineteenth-century Italy and the changing political situation throughout that period , with particular reference to four periods : 1797 to 1814 , the years of Napoleon ; the restoration of the monarchy until mid-century ; the triumph of Realism in tandem with the move towards Unification , 1849 to 1870 ; and the period from 1870 to the end of century when Realism was influenced by European art , leading to the development of Italian Symbolism and Divisionism . |
| 9 | Economic growth averaging some 3% per year is likely to the end of the century , despite current measures to curb the huge budget deficit and the probability of periodic banking crises as financial institutions , many of them over-extended by loans to energy producers , go to the wall . |
| 10 | WHITBREAD , the brewer and retailer , yesterday warned that mounting bad debts in its economically-troubled heartland of southern England will force it to make provisions totalling about £47m in the full-year to the end of February . |
| 11 | Suburban residential development in Chiswick had already become noticeable by the end of the nineteenth century with Back Common load and the adjoining Bond Street , Holly Road , Clifton Gardens , Belmont Road and Grove on the north side of Chiswick high Road , and with Devonshire Road , Linden Gardens and Bolton Gardens — later renamed Duke Road-on the south side , and a few houses in Dukes Avenue , opposite to the end of Barrowgate Road , which itself had a number of houses , mostly at the Sutton Lane end , close to Dead Donkey Lane . |
| 12 | During the two years from the end of 1976 to the end of 1978 , Deng became an increasingly popular candidate for Party leadership as support for Hua Guofeng evaporated . |
| 13 | During the period of Tatar domination from the thirteenth to the end of the fifteenth centuries , Russia under the Golden Horde had been the most westerly province of the great Mongol Empire founded by Genghis Khan ; but from 1582 onwards the tide was turned and the European Slavs rapidly found themselves rulers of a vast colonial domain stretching across Asia to the northern Pacific . |
| 14 | Finnan led the company through the curious stares of many to the end of the docks , and the steep climb up the hill to the city proper . |
| 15 | Holy Communion was taken prior to the end of the service but to my relief not all the worshippers took part . |
| 16 | Equally , the valuation may take place just prior to the end of the month and deliveries be made after the valuation but before the end of the month . |
| 17 | That is to say , bodies should continue to submit applications one month prior to the end of their respective financial years , but grant aid will not be provided for any governing body which submits its application more than three months after the required date . |
| 18 | Gaspar Miklós Tamas , one of Hungary 's most prominent dissidents prior to the end of one-party communist rule , on Jan. 13 won a parliamentary by-election in Budapest for the SzDSz . |
| 19 | Time off in lieu or transferred day must be taken prior to the end of hte leave year or in the case of hte September holiday as soon as reasonably possible after the end of the leave year . |
| 20 | This arises where the tenant has closed the premises prior to the end of the term and has used up the full entitlement to rating relief . |
| 21 | In the meantime , USL whose target of ten overseas joint ventures has slipped from the end of 1992 to the end of 1993 ( UX No 380 ) , says its next joint venture will be in either Mexico or Australia . |
| 22 | Pamela Allerston came to the conclusion that there was good evidence in Yorkshire for village planning , and suggested the period from 1070 to the end of the thirteenth century for the origin of many villages . |
| 23 | The cimetidine was replenished every day and was given from day 0 to the end of the experiment . |
| 24 | He knew French lay intellectuals like Jacques Maritain ( ambassador to the Holy See , 1945–8 ) and Jean Guitton , who spent 8 September with him every year from 1950 to the end of his life . |
| 25 | He sat staring before him , seeing nothing but a long line of Mortimers , inexhaustible and prolific to the end of time . |
| 26 | All my dreams of playing for United to the end of my career — and I was on a seven- year contract — vanished when Ferguson called me into his office and offered me a cash pay-off to clear out and go and do something else with my life . |
| 27 | 160 to the end of the second century , and it meant that these defences could not possibly have been erected before AD 160 . |
| 28 | My late father , F/L Eddie Ross , flew with 112 Shark Squadron from February 1943 to the end of May 1944 , ending his tour as ‘ A ’ Flight Commander during the Italian Campaign , flying Kittyhawks Is , IIIs and IVs up to this date . |
| 29 | They are being sold off due to the end of the Cold War and will supply remote country areas where the food supply is particularly dire . |
| 30 | Although opposition to state action to alleviate poverty remained strong to the end of the century , countervailing pressures were growing . |