Example sentences of "[pron] [is] at the [adj] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | The area of the interface is about 650 2 , which is at the lower end of the range observed for molecules that exist as dimers . |
| 2 | Now I 'm working to save the earth , ’ says Mitsu Kimata , who is at the sharp end of Body Shop 's thrust into Japan . |
| 3 | The absence of any correlative obligation on the part of him who is at the receiving end of the transaction may be material , but is not conclusive , in determining whether it contains an element of bounty or not . |
| 4 | I do my best to be totally honest and fair , whoever is at the other end . |
| 5 | It 's at the smaller end that the problems start . |
| 6 | All men at Maidstone are long sentence prisoners , serving more than four years , and it is at the top end of the scale , with life sentence prisoners , that Maidstone performs its second specialist task . |
| 7 | So it is at the opposite end of the scale — with the small sums lent by weekly credit collectors — that the personal interview in the home is the rule . |
| 8 | The boy who puts unwanted chocolates , sweets , nuts and raisins and chewing gum into the trolley at the checkout can not put his hands to mischief if he is at the other end of the checkout using them to put his mother 's groceries in the box ( see page 111 ) . |