Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [verb] at the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | McLaren boss Teddy Mayer as much as admitted at the end of 1975 that he thought Emerson wanted to move — or that he was in personal trouble of one kind and another — but the official news reached Hunt before it got to the team , and got to Hunt through Domingos Piedade , an eccentric figure close to the cheerful groupie Googie Zanon , a wealthy ( textiles ) Italian aristocrat whose support has been crucial to many drivers at critical points in their career , then ‘ manager ’ to Emerson and now to Ayrton Senna — a fringe career from which Domingos , hugely personable , but also often more a talker than a doer , has made a more than reasonable living . |
| 2 | But if you only listen well and make little contribution yourself , you risk suppressing your own needs and leaving the other party feeling cheated and exposed at the end of the conversation . |
| 3 | All too often the profit earned on an individual house or indeed a development as a whole is less than would have been made if the site had merely been left undeveloped and sold at the end of the development period . |
| 4 | He was cold and hurt at the end of the run-through , knowing what was wrong and unable to admit it . |
| 5 | As a condition of this appointment you are required to accept that if the appointment is not renewed or extended at the end of the period referred to you will not be entitled to claim any rights to complain of unfair dismissal under the Employment Protection ( Consolidation ) Act 1978 , as amended , which authorizes the exclusion by agreement of any such claim in the case of an appointment for a period of one year or more . |
| 6 | St Michael 's Church — ‘ a gem of Baroque Moravian architecture ’ — was firmly shut and St Wenceslas Cathedral , founded in 1109 and rebuilt at the end of the last century on a vast neo-Gothic scale , was dark , impressive and so cold inside it made your head ache . |
| 7 | The leaves are deep green , smooth , narrow , up to 24ins ( 60cms ) long and pointed at the end . |
| 8 | There was a daily requisition to carry troops to the Rossall rifle ranges , leaving between 8–30 and 9–30 and returning at the end of the afternoon . |
| 9 | Key stage 2 ( ages 8–11 ) ( years 3–6 ) : begins with the school year in which the majority reach the age of 8 and ends at the end of the school year in which the majority are 11 . |
| 10 | Song a hoopoe-like succession of hoots , rising at first and falling at the end , sometimes in the form of a trill . |
| 11 | A nationwide auction to swap 514,000 of these shares for vouchers began on April 2nd and closed at the end of the month . |