Example sentences of "at one end " in BNC.
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| 1 | When hose-pipe bans are on , an easy and efficient way to water rows of beans is to cut a length of hosepipe about 3ft longer than your row and make holes along its length , leaving the surplus length at one end hole-free . |
| 2 | Lead this up a stout stake at one end of the row , tying in position , and put a funnel in the open end . |
| 3 | Always close the doors at one end before opening them at the other , unless the wind is very light , and never leave both ends open in case a wind springs up later in the day . |
| 4 | At one end of the heavier door , now held up on trestles , Donald had hefted a stone jar of whisky into position and Donald McLaggan was drawing off cupsful and handing them out . |
| 5 | I imagined the scene : Mellowes at one end of the table , Forbes at the other . |
| 6 | Rodney was standing at one end of the table , a turquoise can in his hand . |
| 7 | The heads form a cap which covers the shoulder joint , and they are attached at one end to the upper arm and at the other end to 3 points to the front , top and back of the shoulder . |
| 8 | At one end of the scale , some of use make things solely for our own use , or to give away to our friends and relations . |
| 9 | Finally , one of the best kept secrets of the decade until its unveiling in 1988 was the Redland self-discharge aggregates train , a permanently coupled set of hopper wagons with a conveyor belt running underneath and a special unloading vehicle at one end . |
| 10 | InterCity 's dedicated Victoria-Gatwick Express push-pull service launched in 1984 made little difference to domestic services , employing ex-LMR Mark 2f coaches formed into trailer sets with a 1959-type 2-HAP driving trailer converted to a driving van at one end , and a Class 73 locomotive at the other . |
| 11 | After a few hours ' walking along the ridge we could clearly see Koitobos , one of the peaks surrounding the crater rim — a long , flat-topped buttress with a steep cone at one end , composed of large , dark brown , vertical columns . |
| 12 | The battery connections are reversed at one end of the circuit , so that each recorder can operate when the station is transmitting . |
| 13 | The odd policy to put the stage in the middle of the room rather than at one end leads to a diminishing of the atmosphere ( the corners are seldom filled ) . |
| 14 | At one end of the book-strewn , red baize-covered table was Tony Benn ( The Benn Diaries 1973-76 ) . |
| 15 | The village green was oval shaped , with the road entering at one end and houses along one side , with a large chateau , a farm and a row of houses on the other side . |
| 16 | In practice there is a continuum ranging from pure value-free perceptions at one end to pure choice at the other . |
| 17 | It was a tiny place — nothing more than a shop knocked through from the street at ground level , no more than 60 feet long At one end was a small bar — from which we sold orange juices on top of the counter with the booze tucked away underneath . |
| 18 | I do n't think what you run makes any difference , because I 've run companies of very diverse natures and the principles that apply to British Steel at one end apply equally to a small company at the other end of the scale . |
| 19 | It is cornered by a housing estate and has a 2ft slope at one end , nothing in Yeovil but a home advantage . |
| 20 | It is cornered by a housing estate and has a 2ft slope at one end , nothing in Yeovil but a home advantage . |
| 21 | At the end of the Second World War , we could go it alone across the whole spectrum of military weapon systems from high-performance aircraft at one end to the simple automatic rifle at the other . |
| 22 | The spectrum has six bands , stretching from nuclear war at one end , through conventional war , limited war , guerrilla war , and terrorism , across to internal security or police action at the other end . |
| 23 | Valuable metal , plastic , cardboard , rubber , energy go in at one end ; Trabant cars worth less than the sum of these parts emerge at the other . |
| 24 | Starting at one end of the wing , the elevator moves across the pile while it is continuously delivering the crop . |
| 25 | He seated himself at one end , and Emily sat beside him . |
| 26 | It was obvious from the empty space at one end that the box had once contained a sixth decoration . |
| 27 | A rigid brown , rust-free aluminium tube , pointed at one end , with two arms of galvanised wire at the other . |
| 28 | Some of the time the Germans at one end of the stadium were hearing the French translation , while their own language was floating with the wind over the top of the stadium and down to Lake Geneva . |
| 29 | ‘ If it was good enough for the Apostle Paul/Disraeli it 's good enough for me ’ at one end . |
| 30 | The eye can move in either direction and seeks a greater concentration of energy at one end of the line . |