GREP find and Style

It is some thing I get quite a bit of, I import text unstyled, into ID!
I then do a search for a [A Head] leader to a para and change to "A Head" para style!
You get the drift I am sure But... what if get a [Bullet] para return, a list of text to be styled followed by [End Bullet]
Can this be done with GREP?
It could make a big difference to my make-up time
Regards
Lou

I ws wondering If my question was a bit cryptic!
What I am doing is importing authors text into the document, I am working on.
The text is not styled but the required styles are flagged with [A Head], [Body Text] [C head], etc.
What I then do is search for these flags, I search for eg.
[AHead]Resources
then change the hilited text to my style for A Headings, which makes the whole paragraph a A Heading. I do a "change all" and all the A headings in my document are styled.
The problematic (for me at least) is when we come to eg. Bullet text this will be flagged so
[bullets]
Recall information
Organise or reorganise knowledge
Use information in a new way
Critically evaluate scientific information
[end bullets]
Is there a way of searching for text between those flags and applying a style to it?
Looking for help

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