Example sentences of "at [adj] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | Modern F&B managers would delight at the instructions to waitresses to ‘ only half fill the Cups with Coffee ( unless asked to fill them up ) and add Boiled Milk but do not quite fill the Cups ’ , or , for dinner , ‘ Begin at Right end of each Division and with a Bill of Fare held in front of each Person , at each course , ask , naming the article , what they will have . ’ |
| 2 | Some hangars have doors at each end and these make a good wind tunnel if both ends are opened at the same time . |
| 3 | They carried timber together for a while after that , one at each end of the planks , eyeing each other with set little smiles . |
| 4 | So , you can experiment , adding an extra lane at each end . |
| 5 | Pieces of material much longer than the vice jaws should be gripped between two wood strips and held in the vice with the addition of a G-cramp or screw at each end ( fig.2 ) . |
| 6 | Plans evolved for new trains for the 1990s Channel Tunnel workings between British provincial centres and Paris , Brussels , and beyond being formed into eighteen coach trains with a power car at each end like an extended electric version of the InterCity 125 diesels , but with the capability to split into nine-coach trains push-pull style with a single power car , perhaps they are all things to all men . |
| 7 | For example : certain dances had to be composed with two sections only , such as the earliest minuets , which made the shape of a ‘ Z ’ , i.e. a diagonally straight line with an acute angle at each end . |
| 8 | One particularly useful type , shown in Fig. 1 , is defined by the position of each end ( x and y ) , plus the direction of a tangent to the spline at each end ( a ) . |
| 9 | In the night he might be heard running up and down his attic bedroom banging the wall at each end , and keeping other people awake . |
| 10 | The sun shines on the ferry as we do the last of the packing , The kayaks have lifted snouts and two holes , one at each end , closed and sealed by hard rubber covers . |
| 11 | The styling has been rounded off at each end and VW house-style rectangular headlights have been fitted . |
| 12 | In the first example there is a white outer skin of pure silver , with overlapping joins at each end . |
| 13 | This chamber is then sealed by doors at each end , which are lowered hydraulically . |
| 14 | The more they were squeezed the more chrome was exuded , as if from a tube , at each end . |
| 15 | He could see the long walkway below him , the small iron gates at each end with steps leading down to both sides of the house . |
| 16 | It was a well-manned Victorian station , with dark waiting rooms , a parcels office and a quaint Neo-Gothic shelter with an ecclesiastical window at each end . |
| 17 | The area swept by the curved line , in the plane , compensates at each end of the quadrilateral so that the area is : length of B 's path times the effective perpendicular length of line . |
| 18 | However if the head is turned to pursue the full length of an apparently straight line , beyond the initial cone of vision , it is seen to approximate to an ellipse , with a VP at each end . |
| 19 | Mr Ayers said yesterday that the excavation had revealed two massive stone abutments , one at each end of the bridge , whose design and diagonal markings were clearly medieval . |
| 20 | Bevan favoured Barnes 's route ; it was shorter , cheaper and , despite the lock climbs at each end , less complicated than Telford 's . |
| 21 | At each end of the tanks are portcullis gates , which are opened and closed by hydraulic rams . |
| 22 | Horizontality is , in fact , preserved by bringing into use an additional pair of wheels under the leading edge of the tank , fitted on the same axle as the main track wheels , one at each end of the axle , and thus outside the main pair , in such a way that they engage with a second , outside , pair of rails laid over the curve ( figure 7 ) . |
| 23 | In the case where a lift was placed at each end of a summit , and where the traffic was through the summit , there would be no loss or gain of water by the use of the lift other than the loss of 1/100 of a lock each time either lift passed up and down . |
| 24 | Victoria was situated in a large cutting with tunnels at each end of the station . |
| 25 | A metre and a half of copper wire with wooden handgrips at each end went in his pocket plus a box of bullets for his Walther in case he should be able to reclaim it from the masthead . |
| 26 | At each end there are set-forward wings , and the whole is topped by a stone balustrade and a row of statues . |
| 27 | When examining the wound , I noticed a dark area at each end of the cut . |
| 28 | In view of the marks ’ being similar at each end of the incision , I conclude that they were caused by the weapon which killed the subject . ’ |
| 29 | For hours , civilians of both faiths dutifully queued at these terrible checkpoints at each end of the Ring on the innocent assumption that the gunmen there merely wished to look at their identity papers . |
| 30 | There was a large barn behind the gallery and originally a door at each end , one leading to the house . |