Example sentences of "[pron] is [vb pp] [prep] one end " in BNC.
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| 1 | The species has an elongated form , which is extended at one end into a shovel-like tongue ; fine concentric ribs are nearly parallel to its margin . |
| 2 | The square law of force means that both alternating and direct currents are registered but there is an essentially square-law scale which is cramped at one end . |
| 3 | Carve one half so that it is mounded at one end and tapering at the other , to form the lid ( see illustration ) . |
| 4 | Built around two , 200-metre-long concrete pontoons , it is linked at one end and has a floating gate at the other which closes when a submarine is inside . |
| 5 | In simpler creatures , granules of it are distributed evenly throughout the egg ; in a frog 's egg , it is concentrated at one end ; and in a bird 's egg it initially fills the greater part of the shell . |
| 6 | There is also more overlapping , of a kind which insists on the notion of depth : a despairing woman on the far side of the statue from which the lesser Ajax is about to drag Cassandra to rape her ; hidden faces ( Priam 's and Aeneas 's — he is shown at one end , escaping with his father and son ) . |