Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] at the end " in BNC.
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| 31 | A stray mongrel appeared at the end of the alley , its body gaunt from years of neglect . |
| 32 | The judges have repeatedly rejected the introduction of written briefs into English civil procedure , but Sir John Donaldson 's proposals and their development over the past five years are a step in the direction of a written stage in appellate procedure , despite the somewhat ambivalent caveat added at the end of the Practice Note : |
| 33 | The Heritage Secretary Peter Brooke says Britain will be creating millionaires every week when the national lottery starts at the end of next year . |
| 34 | Much of his work was on pottery already in museum collections , or as a pottery assistant to Bushe-Fox , but at Templebrough , he was director of the excavations which had been made necessary by the extension of the large steel works at the end of the Great War . |
| 35 | But on reflection , a quick little sub-committee meeting at the end of Christmas Day he said well we 've paid it now , but we are in fact , in hand |
| 36 | Exhaustive re-furbishing completed at the end of '90 . |
| 37 | After a long silence , he pointed to a large house standing at the end of a long drive . |
| 38 | In a political communiqué issued at the end of the first full day of talks on July 16 , G-7 leaders undertook to revitalize the United Nations by rendering it " stronger … and more effective " . |
| 39 | In the illustration the trial phase is turned on for fixed times and the rate of current rise , and corresponding rotor position , is deduced from the current level attained at the end of the trial . |
| 40 | The Bush campaign , which had had its late surge halted at the end of October by fresh Iran-contra revelations against the President [ see pp. 39134-35 ] , was unable to recover its momentum before polling day . |
| 41 | At an extraordinary conference held at the end of March , and after 1/2 years of divisions , the pro-government San-Martín wing of the Peronist General Confederation of Labour ( CGT ) reunited with the radical Azopardo wing . |
| 42 | What better way to unwind at the end of a frantic week than treating yourself to an hour or two of pure pampering ? |
| 43 | The Prime Minister appeared at the end of the broadcast to warn of further turmoil if the Government 's health and trade union reforms were undone . |
| 44 | The fairly severe test incorporated at the end wherein each measure is compared with the calculated mean , and must lie within a 2% tolerance of that mean , has not been triggered . |
| 45 | This unexpected move came at the end of an NPFL conference which called for the continuation of the peace process and the enforcement of the Yammoussoukro agreement as outlined in the Geneva agreement . |
| 46 | The United Kingdom Meteorological Office announced at the end of November 1989 that the 1980s had been the warmest decade worldwide since records had been kept , with six out of 10 of the warmest years since the mid-19th century having occurred during this period . |
| 47 | The Draft Treaties for Economic and Monetary Union published at the end of 1990 replace references to ‘ co-ordination ’ or ‘ co-operation ’ in economic policy with references to ‘ the institution of a common economic policy … and the implementation of other common policies ; the definition and pursuit of a single monetary policy … to support the common economic policy . ’ |
| 48 | Looking back at your career to , say , the last years of the Great War I am reminded of that poem quoted at the end of Pasternak 's Dr Zhivago , ‘ To live one 's life is not as easy as crossing a ploughed field' ! |
| 49 | After Indira Gandhi 's assassination in 1984 , Rajiv was swiftly sworn in as her successor [ see p. 33220 ] and led Congress ( I ) to a massive victory in a general election held at the end of the year [ see pp. 33464-66 ] . |
| 50 | NHS dentists are now a rarity in parts of London and the Home Counties — this is one effect of the new dental contract introduced at the end of 1990 . |
| 51 | Referring to the summary of the properties of the stress-energy tensor given at the end of the previous section , we see that the Einstein tensor matches these precisely . |
| 52 | The next stage in this shifting argument occurred at the end of November 1978 with the appearance of a brief DES statement entitled Agricultural Education in England and Wales : Validating Arrangements . |
| 53 | The Dutch company announced at the end of last week that it had reached agreement to buy Liber AB in Stockholm , Sweden 's second largest publishing group . |
| 54 | The National Football League play-offs are about to begin , and the orgiastic blow-out of the Super Bowl comes at the end of the month . |
| 55 | This tendency is illustrated succinctly in the responses of two working-class housewives to a question about general satisfaction asked at the end of the interview : |
| 56 | His impassioned speech came at the end of a day of increasing speculation over the likelihood that the Liberal Democrats could hold the balance of power after Thursday 's general election . |
| 57 | If you remember your , from , from your history at school the , the , the first world war the Americans in the historic role of arriving at wars rather late erm came in to the first world war to win it for us erm and after it President Wilson who used to be professor of politics at Princeton , just put that in , er President Wilson created , essentially cos we were all bankrupt at the time as usual er the Americans the only ones who had any money left at the end of the wars , erm President Wilson helped to create the League of Nations , the forerunner of the United Nations but the U S senate refused to ratify the agreement . |
| 58 | The wooden stairs led down into a narrow corridor illuminated by a single naked bulb dangling at the end of a piece of frayed flex . |
| 59 | And when he tried transparent tricks to pull up vital business buried at the end of the list , he found himself making a number of enemies in the group . |
| 60 | This coincides with conditions which are favourable to the development of the free-living stages of Ostertagia spp. and so infective larvae accumulate during the winter to cause clinical problems or production loss in the second half of the winter ; arrested larval development occurs at the end of the winter or early spring . |