Example sentences of "at the end " in BNC.
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| 31 | HAIR CONDITION : Fine and dry at the ends |
| 32 | Hair has been tonged at the ends for this great look by Paul Houghton from the Level salon |
| 33 | Then , to shape the ends and create an up-to-the-minute feeling , place the brush on top of the hair and flick out with your wrist at the ends . |
| 34 | It produces an ice quite Ben Nicholson in the uniformity of colour , and there is an almost Rodinesque sumptuousness about the lumps and knobs that accumulate at the ends of the shelves . |
| 35 | Cars sat at the ends of roads for hours . |
| 36 | Long narrow destination boards with route numbers in small figures at the ends , were slotted into brackets just below the saloon windows , replacing those on the upper deck screens . |
| 37 | There were the usual semi-elliptical springs at the ends supporting the body . |
| 38 | In general , smokers do not want to be patronised with compulsory anti-smoking meetings during working hours , or ‘ ghettoised ’ in cramped and dirty ‘ sin bins ’ at the ends of disused corridors . |
| 39 | Having laid the foundations , you simply cover them with a layer of sand about 50mm deep , and level this off , using a straight-edge cut out at the ends to just under the depth of the bricks , say about 90mm . |
| 40 | I assembled the studwork by laying all the sections flat on the lawn , and nailing them together , then added extra bracing at the ends — once the diagonals had been checked , and the panels pronounced square . |
| 41 | In practice however , this is generally an unsatisfactory arrangement since the grips damage the metal and cause premature failure at the ends so that the result is unreliable . |
| 42 | ( We can sometimes stop a crack by increasing its tip radius — it is fairly common to see holes drilled at the ends of cracks in glass and Perspex in the hope of preventing the crack from spreading any further . ) |
| 43 | When the stress at the ends or edges of the joint reaches the strength of dry casein therefore , cracks appear at the edges of the joint which immediately produce their own private local concentrations of stress , and so the cracks run through the middle of the joint , much as they would in glass . |
| 44 | Likewise the end glasses , as angled shots at the ends of the tank can also give rise to flash reflections . |
| 45 | I have grown one and I twist it at the ends ( the moustache too ) . ’ |
| 46 | It is not just at the ends of words where compression methods can be applied . |
| 47 | It is not just at the ends of words where common letter sequences can make use of the same nodes in a tree structure . |
| 48 | For example hyphens functioning as delimiters are essential , whereas those signifying word breaks at the ends of lines are extraneous , and the two parts of the word should possibly be joined together . |
| 49 | Poolewe and Dundonnell are at the ends of a classic walk of nearly thirty miles crossing this wilderness and , because of the rigours of the journey , calling for careful advance planning . |
| 50 | Lengths should be overlapped , and only cut to fit at the ends , as hessian can shrink as it dries . |
| 51 | As a result , Germany is now considering legislation to compel car makers to take back and recycle vehicles at the ends of their lives , and its car makers are busily designing cars that can rapidly be dismantled . |
| 52 | Klaus Töpfer , the federal environment minister , has capitalised on his country 's environmental angst by devising a bold principle : that companies should have a legal obligation to take back — and to recycle — their products at the ends of their lives . |
| 53 | In addition to these interactions , there are a number of other side-chain contacts to phosphate groups , including Lys17 and 17' from the flexible loop , Lys78 from an adjacent loop and Lys22 and 22' at the ends of the β -ribbon . |
| 54 | In sCD2 the equivalent β- bulges are positioned at the ends of the CC' and FG loops , thus limiting the extent of the twist , and these loop regions are no longer of similar lengths ( Fig.4 b ) . |
| 55 | Gulliver 's Travels went back to telling fantastic tales , but Swift wrote the book in the same realistic style as Defoe , and took it for granted that his readers would find it quite natural that at the ends of the earth men were just the same as in England — petty , trivial , grasping , and generally unpleasant . |
| 56 | Steps which are returned at the ends take up a lot of space , but are impressive . |
| 57 | The sills are often the first to decay , either at the ends , or at the joints with jambs and mullions . |
| 58 | However , as it tends to be dry at the ends , we trimmed off an inch and tamed the frizz with heated rollers . |
| 59 | Nevertheless , this is an excellent , aggressive account of the Allegro , albeit with a little too much from the timpanist , especially at the ends of rolls where he insists on drawing attention to himself . |
| 60 | The boot comprised a squared box covered in thick leather bound at each end with iron , measuring about two and a half feet in length and four inches square at the ends . |