Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [verb] at the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | The leaflet was launched at an event for employers held at the end of June 1993 . |
| 2 | Seeing no future in hearts West then found the club switch and East took the next six club tricks , leaving only six tricks for declarer to collect at the end . |
| 3 | If the company 's business involves dealing in goods the records must also contain a statement of stock held at the end of the financial year and statements of stocktakings from which that was prepared , and , except in the case of goods sold in the ordinary course of retail trade , statements of all goods sold or purchased , in sufficient detail to enable the other party to be identified . |
| 4 | The port of Ventspils lay at the end of a pipeline which brought Siberian oil for export , providing one-third of Soviet hard-currency income . |
| 5 | There is a selection of books listed at the end of this book , but this is just the tip of the iceberg . |
| 6 | The sign ( - ) used to join two words together , to join separated syllables of words broken at the end of a line of writing and to divide a word into parts or to represent hesitant speech , eg b-b-but . |
| 7 | The Committee of Directors of Polytechnics decided at the end of 1982 to discuss plans to deal with applications for the 1985 intake , involving the appointment of staff and the compilation of application forms and a polytechnic equivalent of the UCCA booklet . |
| 8 | When the first shaft of light showed at the end of the tunnel it was like waking from a nightmare . |
| 9 | When the current round of licences expires at the end of 1992 , new licence-holders will be ( more or less ) the firms that have paid most for them . |
| 10 | ( A list of texts appears at the end of the chapter . ) |
| 11 | You need a glass of wine to raise at the end of your speech if you are going to propose a toast . |
| 12 | Competitively superior varieties of RNA produced at the end of several test-tube ‘ generations ’ can be bottled and named for future use . |
| 13 | It would be misleading to imply that there were only three strata of funeral existing at the end of the sixteenth century — monarchial , noble and guild ; what one had depended entirely on one 's status . |
| 14 | When a bright ring of solder appears at the end of the fitting , the joint is made . |
| 15 | While IBM Corp is still the most popular manufacturer in Spain , in 1992 both hardware and software sales from all vendors were below forecasts made at the end of 1991 . |
| 16 | The exhibition ‘ Western painting from the sixteenth to the twentieth century from the Bremen Kunsthalle Collection ’ , the show of some of the works of art looted at the end of World War II , has moved from the Hermitage in St Petersburg to the All-Russian Museum of Decorative , Applied and Folk Art in Moscow . |
| 17 | The number of patients waiting at the end of last year rose to 990 and the average waiting time had risen from 35 weeks to more than a year . |
| 18 | The number of patients waiting at the end of last year rose to 990 and the average waiting time had risen from 35 weeks to more than a year . |
| 19 | This is particularly true of monetary compensatory amounts , which typify the kind of legislation adopted at the end of marathon meetings of agriculture ministers and subsequently amended again and again to respond to political adjustments or monetary fluctuations . |
| 20 | A roll of corduroy lay at the end of the counter . |
| 21 | According to sources in Washington , officials in the Department of Commerce decided at the end of last year to recommend this strategy to the president as the most effective way of relinquishing responsibility for the US 's Landsat system . |
| 22 | During his time at York he was invited to be the visitor of the House of the Resurrection at Mirfield in Yorkshire , the community of priests founded at the end of the last century by Charles Gore . |
| 23 | The Institute seems to be rather vaguely organized , as they still have n't been able to tell me what students I am teaching — my teaching , it turns out , does n't start until Monday , but I have heard that an abnormally large number of students have signed up for my course , so I shall have a lot of marking of papers to do at the end of four weeks . |
| 24 | The series of hints came at the end of an extraordinary visit to South Korea . |
| 25 | The subject of obsolescence has generated a considerable amount of literature , most of it based on citation studies — that is , studies showing the number of times that individual books or periodical articles are cited in the lists of references given at the end of a piece of research ( a method , it can be seen , which is distinct from studies of actual library use ) . |
| 26 | Chairman I have an amendment to that motion , because , because I believe it 's important that we start to identify a lot of councils publish at the end of the year for public consumption a list of the allowances drawn by members , and I think that would be very useful and I would make , as an amendment , I would , would add to the proposal put by Mr that we call for a report to be pu er , to be presented to us of the amounts of allowances drawn by members , each member |
| 27 | That 's a reason , incidentally , for caution on stories of photographs glimpsed at the end of dinners for OSS veterans — the pictures of Edgar on his knees , making love to Clyde . |
| 28 | Hull 's most important Humberside derby for years comes at the end of a sad week for the club which saw defeat by Widnes on Sunday , and the sacking of Noel Cleal as coach on Monday . |
| 29 | AS THE bright , white , Scottish baronial of John o' Groats shone at the end of the road , Alan Holly ( Joss Ackland ) said , choking on a laugh or a sob or a pun , ‘ There it is , the Holy City ’ . |
| 30 | The Contributions Agency has issued a proposal suggesting that self-employed and non-employed National Insurance contributors pay their fees via bills issued at the end of each quarter . |