Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] at [art] [adj] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Charles Sherrington argued that the evolution of neuronal integration of reflexes concerned with movement gave rise to large ganglia situated at the front end of mobile animals , for that is where the sense organs develop . |
| 2 | The first person in each team is given a balloon and has to blow it down the room over tape placed at the other end without touching it . |
| 3 | The Coroner was in his early forties , a gaunt , greying man , with thick spectacles perched at the very end of his nose . |
| 4 | The lower — rough gravel and during the winter months flooded at the far end . |
| 5 | The manufacture of the 12 ton covered wagon underframe commenced at the eastern end of the shop , with assembly of the headstocks , diagonals , and longitudes in a fixture ; these were then riveted by pneumatic rivet machines . |
| 6 | it creates extra communication problems , since top management is more remote from the work done at the bottom end of the organisation , and information tends to get distorted or blocked on its way up or down through the organisation hierarchy ; |
| 7 | Attached to the bottom of the betalite , which is encased in a plastic tube for protection , is a length of braided terylene tied at the other end to my back rod-rest , so that when I strike the indicator pulls off and drops to the ground . |
| 8 | Such eminent builders as Conrad Graf ( 1782–1851 ) and Johann Fritz ( active between 1810 and 1825 ) used the Walter type of check , the single batten sprung at the treble end . |
| 9 | The clamped end of the system is then vibrated laterally at a given frequency v and the amplitude of the vibration induced at the free end of the sample is recorded . |
| 10 | Very soon after , a file of malai troops passed at the other end of the road . |
| 11 | A sharp click sounded at the other end of the line and a voice muttered something . |
| 12 | the wire mesh used at the wet end of the paper making process . |
| 13 | Fraulein Winkelmann was sitting at one end of a small kitchen table , separated from a big colour set at the other end by a cup of coffee and a plate of cream cakes . |
| 14 | It was entered by a narrow door in Meard Street and reached by a tiny , rickety lift situated at the far end of a gloomy passage . |
| 15 | Sir : Am I alone in seeing the debate focused at the wrong end of the argument ? |
| 16 | At a muddy little pond halfway up the hill swallows were dive-bombing its insect life and three brown pigs browsed at the further end of the meadow . |
| 17 | There have been three Railway Gas Works at Wolverton and gas was supplied by the Company to all Wolverton and Old Wolverton as far as the Old Wolverton turn , to all of New Bradwell and the Bradville Estate , the former having its own gasometer positioned at the western end of Bridge Street alongside the canal . |
| 18 | Over the eight years of the project the reduction in inequality between different socio.economic groups was consequent upon an improvement in scores attained at the bottom end of the distribution and not the levelling down of those at the top . |
| 19 | TYNDALL , the fund manager , has released a high interest cheque account aimed at the upper end of the market . |
| 20 | In South-west England block and basin limestones and shales and spilitic basic volcanics were laid down in an extensional basin developed at the western end of the Rheno-Hercynian zone . |
| 21 | The former is a groove or cavity which articulates with a convex process of the clypeus and the condyle is a rounded head adapted to fit into a socket placed at the lower end of the gena or postgena . |
| 22 | This is especially the case where we have an instruction set defined for a compatible range of computers , since it will be difficult to implement economically at the lower ( and cheaper ) end of the range the complex facilities required at the upper end ( though microprogramming may be an answer ) . |