Example sentences of "the [adj] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | They take a trip in a ‘ means of communication ’ to the limits of language at the ultra-violet end of the verbal spectrum , and Someone is fuelled by the ‘ internal combustion ’ of words ( 22/218,51/247 ) . |
| 2 | he screamed to persuade himself that he was not frightened , and suddenly the barricade dissolved in an explosion of smoke through which the musket flames stabbed like shivers of light and the General 's long white moustache was whipped by a bullet that went on to tear away his left ear-lobe , but that was the only injury he took for he had always been a lucky man , and he caught a glimpse of long weeds shivering under the silver water beneath the bridge , then he kicked his heels hard back , and his awkward ugly horse clumsily jumped the heaped-chairs at the right-hand end of the barricade . |
| 3 | For example the extended arithmetic element on the DEC PDP-8 has a " normalize " instruction which shifts the accumulator and MQ register left ( inserting zeros at the right-hand end ) , until the most and next most significant bits of the accumulator are different . |
| 4 | I watched Pa mark the first blade with yellow chalk , pull down his welder 's mask , then winch up the grinding wheel till it just pinged against the right-hand end of the blades , throwing a couple of sparks . |
| 5 | Moving towards the right-hand end of the spectrum , another landmark point is the probability of a perfect deal in bridge , where each of the four players receives a complete suit of cards . |
| 6 | If on some planet there are beings with a lifetime of a million centuries , their spotlight of comprehensible risk will extend that much farther towards the right-hand end of the continuum . |
| 7 | In Chapters 5 and 6 we counted only those paths which spanned the entire utterance , anchoring the beginning of the search at the left-hand end and ignoring all paths that failed to match through to the right-hand end . |
| 8 | Too late , and the ciné-weave ends before we can bring the pipper to bear . ’ |
| 9 | These are known as ‘ Kent peg tapered tiles ’ as they narrow in length , holes being incorporated at the narrow ends to accept wooden pegs which locate them on the roofing battens . |
| 10 | Triton shells are frequently found in shrines , and with the narrow end cut away to make a mouthpiece . |
| 11 | There — at the narrow end of the gulley . |
| 12 | If you do proceed with your venturi , then the principle is very simple : using solvent weld cement , glue a conical reducing piece into the intended pipe so that the narrow end of the ‘ nozzle ’ is just into the place where the upright venturi pipe connects in . |
| 13 | In his pocket he found a screwdriver and inspected the narrow end as if he were a surgeon about to perform a delicate operation . |
| 14 | The chambered shell ( phragmocone ) is less conspicuous — it is tucked into the broad end of the fossil guard , where the series of closely-spaced septa reveal the cephalopod nature of these otherwise somewhat featureless fossils . |
| 15 | They live today with the broad end buried in the sediment , where they forage for food using small prehensile filaments . |
| 16 | Trichomonas vaginalis is a protozoon , a one-celled animal which moves about by means of flagellae which work like flexible oars from the broad end of this pear-shaped organism . |
| 17 | The columns normally tapered downward , the broad end of the inverted tree trunk supporting the capital and architrave beams . |
| 18 | He does not shoot them , but at the Polyparty end — an area of open seating — he shoots Geneviève Bergeron twice and Anne-Marie Edward four times , killing them both . |
| 19 | Thus one has a staircase with rounded steps , but to disguise the edges it is necessary to fill the hollow ends of the pipes with concrete or soil and suitably hide them with plants . |
| 20 | You can score points for the number of ceramic divisions you can move the butt over ( with extra for actually getting it down the hole and extra for doing it from the far end of the gutter from the hole ) , for the amount of destruction caused — apparently it 's very hard to get the little black cone at the burned end to disintegrate — and , over the course of the evening , the number of fag-ends so dispatched . |
| 21 | Leeman plugged away with constant strikes and both his colleagues joined in on the 17th end when continued Brackley accuracy brought the game to a premature conclusion . |
| 22 | The bleached ends were growing out so new High Lift Natural Blonde highlights from the Koleston 2000 range were put in by Chris to soften the colour . |
| 23 | Rob Morris , David Jarrold and John Stephens had helped the Barking skip to a 15–7 lead after 12 ends , but let Martin Christmas close the gap to just one by the 15th end . |
| 24 | The fifth man is , he was a gunner and armourer and flew in the and the man furthest on the right standing is from Chualar C H U A L A R California , he was a waste gunner for two waste gunners on the each end of the standing group . |
| 25 | Radiological studies are not able to precisely define the muscular end of the oesophagus and when a Barrett 's oesophagus is present with gastric mucosa lining the distal oesophagus , it can easily be mistaken for a hiatal hernia . |
| 26 | ( Tel. : 0423 67140 ) Today the £299 Amstrad SM2400 seems to dominate the low end V22bis market . |
| 27 | On January 22nd Alan Greenspan , chairman of the Federal Reserve , suggested that it would be at the low end of that range largely because much of the equipment being used would not be replaced . |
| 28 | The death of a spouse and loss of job merit the highest stress rating , and the low end of the scale includes holidays and Christmas ! |
| 29 | But Chris Smith sums up the make-or-break situation of the market in turmoil : ‘ The low end of the market is thinner than it used to be , and the other buyers do n't want to mess around with scrapyards . ’ |
| 30 | The sound was so brittle , and yet the low end was unbelievable — you just banged one chord and you got this huge belt in the stomach . |