Example sentences of "to the end of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , if the DA is coming to the end of his/her four-year term , seeking the death penalty may improve their chances of re-election . |
| 2 | We will leave it to Goldberg to disengage the tone from the shit , he wrote , we will leave it to Honeyman and McGough , much good may it do them , though I will no doubt come back to the question before my project is completed , the big glass and the notes to the big glass , these two to be worked on at night , and this freewheeling commentary on both to be written by day , putting down whatever comes into my head after a night 's work , no correction , no revision , whatever comes into my head , the first two to be worked on by artificial light , the strategy clear , this by natural light wherever possible , no strategy at all , the first to be exhibited , the second to be published in the form of sheets in a box , a blue box or a red box , I have not yet made up my mind , in a limited edition , not a luxury edition but a restricted edition , five hundred boxes perhaps or even two hundred and fifty , all that will become clearer in the course of my work on the big glass , of my work on the notes to the big glass , now I have finally embarked on the major project of my life , the climactic project of my life , leading to the end of my life , all will grow clearer , wrote Harsnet , whether to try and call back and destroy all I have done till now or let it be , whether to burn this commentary or let it be , or perhaps leave it to Goldberg to do whatever he wants with , all these things will no doubt be resolved before the work is completed , that is the beauty of being in the middle of a project , that time itself , which had seemed such an enemy before I started , rushing forward and dragging me with it , impervious to my pleas , has suddenly turned friendly , flops down at my feet , licks my ankles , lets me know it is on my side . |
| 3 | He comes to the end of one and without pause is off on another . |
| 4 | She was coming to the end of months on the barren atoll of Pity Me when she heard the moth rattle against her window , between tacked-up scarlet and black batik fabric and the glass . |
| 5 | Astrid was married , kids and mortgage , but the summer had rocketed by in a riot of colours and joy , and autumn found Astrid divorced and coming to the end of being in love with Jay . |
| 6 | Also in an ideal calendar , the Grand Slam Cup should be brought forward to the end of October , 4–5 weeks after the US Open , which would not only give the players a brief chance to relax but then to prepare for the ‘ tour finale ’ on an indoor surface . |
| 7 | A maximum of 15 minutes on any one drill is therefore ideal , unless , of course , it is being played for points , in which case you should play to the end of that particular session . |
| 8 | Leitmotifs are a firm point of reference that carries the dancer onwards from the beginning to the climax and to the end of the story . |
| 9 | Lemminkainen was able to weave and cast spells to win his way through to the end of his journey . |
| 10 | It is rolled into a pellet and fastened to the end of the needle and lit so that it smokes . |
| 11 | Down to the end of the fifteenth century , Italians dominate European culture in literature , in science , in scholarship , in painting and in architecture . |
| 12 | The measures will run to the end of 1990 , the same period as wage controls imposed at the weekend . |
| 13 | The Abbey National was less sanguine : ‘ This could effectively put a seal on the property market to the end of the year , ’ said a spokesman . |
| 14 | The latest figures from the Home Office show that the largest of the 60 seizures of the drug made up to the end of June this year was 40 grammes in Nottingham . |
| 15 | It claims that in the five years to the end of 1988 Pearl 's new annual premium business rose by an average of 3.7 per cent a year against a UK market average of 13 per cent a year . |
| 16 | The Halifax estate agency revealed a £14.5m loss in the six months to the end of July . |
| 17 | Its pre-tax profits slumped 10 per cent to £91.7m in the half year to the end of July . |
| 18 | Sir : The doctor 's plate offering two grades of medical advice ( letter , 4 October ) goes back to the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 19 | How did you feel as you came to the end of your working week yesterday afternoon ? |
| 20 | ‘ Our view is the recovery will probably now be delayed to the end of 1991 . ’ |
| 21 | Ryan is trying to keep a long-term perspective since his appointment as Welsh coach runs to the end of the next World Cup , in the autumn of 1991 . |
| 22 | Announcing that Scottish companies and local authorities had raised more than £230,000 , George Hunter , the Games Council secretary , said that this would allow the time limit for achieving qualifying standards to be extended to the end of December . |
| 23 | It would not affect results in the period to the end of June or current trading , which was to budget . |
| 24 | Fight back those tears at The Inevitable Parting : ‘ You and me , boy , I reckon we 've come to the end of our road . ’ |
| 25 | INTEREST charges associated with its continuing restructuring all but wiped out Pergamon AGB 's profits in the half-year to the end of June . |
| 26 | It was also close to the end of the shift and this legal reduction prevented them having to ‘ go over ’ , as well as getting them out of considerable paperwork later , and road traffic accidents are particularly disliked because of the amount of paperwork they involve . |
| 27 | Our own surveys confirm a strong switch towards optimism between our Mid-Term Wave in 1986 and our Pre-Campaign Wave in March 1987 , but over the relatively short period from our Pre-Campaign Wave to the end of the campaign overall trends in economic perceptions were small . |
| 28 | The massive preponderance of peasants up to the end of NEP and beyond also ensured a widely disseminated population . |
| 29 | One after another , down to the end of 1988 at least , attempts to reform or redefine the old consensus on ‘ one-nation ’ lines proved ineffective . |
| 30 | Indeed , surprisingly enough , Mrs Thatcher 's reputation , in the doldrums at home at least to the end of 1981 , began to grow in foreign affairs as she became more self-assured . |