Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] at the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may have been the gigantic reptilian analogue of the elephant , and it may be no coincidence that the elephant also has its nasal openings on top of the skull , with the nostrils in this case sited at the end of the trunk it has been suggested that some sauropods may have had a proboscis of some sort . |
| 2 | This was weighted with a large wooden tag charred at the end where Father Barnes had put it down too close to a gas flame . |
| 3 | A ghostly figure hovered at the end of the tunnel . |
| 4 | A further recount began at the end of May . |
| 5 | We must hope it was a harbinger that the one riotously funny scene occurred at the end of the first episode , with Europe through . |
| 6 | The decision follows strong local objections at a public inquiry held at the end of 1991 . |
| 7 | These jettison the shared medium of Ethernet in favour of a star-shaped configuration in which each networked device sits at the end of its own private Ethernet segment , where it gets the benefit of the whole 10Mbps . |
| 8 | Quite a surprise regarding this name occurred at the end of the last war . |
| 9 | There was an old lorry parked at the end , loaded with scaffolding poles . |
| 10 | On the small flagstoned terrace sits a ramshackle stone barbecue and the garage is an old farm shed at the end of a roughly-laid tarmac track . |
| 11 | A game of darts at the local pub ; just as much a favourite way to relax at the end of the day 50 years ago , as it is now . |
| 12 | A dim shape moved at the end of the clearing . |
| 13 | Of course it would be absurd to blame contemporary Germans for what the Nazis did ; but , because this judgment lies at the end of a different and independent mode of argument , it is not absurd to suppose that contemporary Germans have special responsibilities because the Nazis were Germans too . |
| 14 | In the simple framework described at the end of this section , individuals are assumed to have fixed endowments of capital and earning capacity , and the wage and rate of return are assumed exogenously determined . |
| 15 | Erm , the erm , the erm , the erm , er , settlement of the anti tr civil anti trust law suit that was referred to in the statement was erm , costs of about six million dollars this year on a class action law suit which we have reached a tentative settlement on in the last few days and , in fact , there were some , there was about six to seven million dollars of additional provision made at the end of last year in the one time charges that we referred to at that time but could n't really identify with erm , lawyers breathing down your necks in the United States and er , this is a class action law suit , would have been in a Texas Court and erm , you know , the boiler plate language is that you want to get rid of the , you know , the expense and uncertainty of this type of litigation and if you think that what a Texas jury did to Texaco , it 's probably a prudent decision to close the matter off at this time . |
| 16 | My father 's tour with 112 Squadron finished at the end of May and on the 31st Sgt Pilot Davis flew FX740 for the first and last time , sadly being shot down by ack-ack in the vicinity of Frosinone , south of Rome . |
| 17 | See SIMPLE WINDOW REPAIRS at the end of the feature for some more details . |
| 18 | But before you go that way — real joy lies at the end of each bus trip to the east -it is compulsory , or so you might think , to visit Þingvellir . |
| 19 | But the coded language of the joint communiqué issued at the end of Churchill 's Washington visit of January 1952 showed that there had been little or no meeting of minds . |
| 20 | But our real kick came at the end of the film when the lights went up . |
| 21 | Ironically , the most noticeable example comes at the end of scene ten , when Broadbent admits that Anderson 's advice on the Czech team 's tactics has proved depressingly sound : Anderson 's laconic replies implicate his loss of interest in the topic , following scene six , even now that Broadbent actually shows interest in what he had said earlier and allocates a turn to him twice . |
| 22 | Most surprising of all , at a quarterly delegate meeting at the end of 1873 , " it was generally held that there could be no reasonable objection to their [ women 's ] employment to a certain extent ; the main point in dispute being , was it right to put a limit on their number and … to what extent and how to apply the rule " . |
| 23 | When Prime Minister John Major stood up in Parliament yesterday , he was the mere messenger sent at the end of a marital power struggle to announce a victory that belonged to Diana . |
| 24 | The chief inspector waited at the end of the room and tried to siphon off his individual murmur from the swell of coughing and clattering round about . |
| 25 | A joint statement issued at the end of the talks also called on the international community to adhere to sanctions against Iraq for its invasion of Kuwait [ see p. 37639 ] . |
| 26 | After several European countries had made similar pledges , the European Community declared at the end of February a 1995 ban on production of all five " fully-halogenated " CFCs listed under the Protocol , together with the industrial solvents carbon tetrachloride and methyl chloroform , and halons , used in fire extinguishers . |
| 27 | The truly disgraceful bit came at the end , where it said , ‘ Rights Offered : First British Serial only ’ . |
| 28 | The brief moral drawn at the end of the original French version of this tale is that he who trusts his wife more than himself will frequently regret it . |
| 29 | God himself sets up a new Jerusalem , and a Messiah-like figure appears at the end , " the lamb which became a great animal and had great black horns on its head " . |
| 30 | ‘ If you think this is awful you should see the master suite , ’ a cheerful voice said , and she lifted her head to see a fit-looking Roman lounging at the end of her bed . |