Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] at [art] [adj] end " in BNC.

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1 Consistent sailing means not taking too many unnecessary risks , such as not starting at the crowded end of the start line or sailing completely to one side of the beat where just one unfavourable wind shift can ruin you .
2 The Trap somehow appeared at the easiest end of the HVS graded list ; it should be at the top !
3 But until very recently systems were generally aimed at the top end of the market , and the cost was high enough to make acquisition a major undertaking .
4 I usually stand at the shallow end after she 's finished teaching me the floating bit , and watch her have her swim .
5 In prayer-rug designs this arch-shaped form is usually found at the top end of the composition , although it is sometimes employed at both ends in what are generally referred to as " double-ended " prayer rugs ( pls. 17 and 18 ) .
6 Also recommended at the other end of the spectrum is Kenwards — described by Tère and Tony as the ‘ jewel in Lewes 's gastronomic crown ’ .
7 Honda is also producing its own version with a different body design and they 're both aiming at the same end of the market .
8 The size of FAB 3 has allowed space for a special survivors ' cabin below decks , additional seating is also provided at the aft end of the wheelhouse .
9 However , it is good enough to say that light entering one end of the fibre will reflect repeatedly along its length and eventually emerge at the other end ( see Fig 4 ) .
10 Blenning Bombers , er were these Bostons and Harvards they er quite a twin engine quite a wide wingspan and quite heavy for what they were , but as they were stripped down in , in the top hanger , and like I say a lot of stuff was salvaged from them , which was still good as they went out reconditioned at the other end .
11 I wanted to invite Virginia back to the unit to show her what these rationalisations will really mean at the sharp end .
12 For criminologists surely ‘ can never be successfully involved at the sharp end , or pointy end , dealing with angry men on the cold , hard streets ’ ( from fieldnotes ) .
13 Overall , equations ( 9.78 ) and ( 9.79 ) allow for a signal being fed in at one end of a transmission line , propagating along it and being partially reflected at the other end to give a wave travelling in the opposite direction .
14 ‘ The sort of people who can afford handcrafted learning toys do n't shop at the wrong end of the Pimlico Road . ’
15 Ted Stanley used up two pints of bronze maggots while loose feeding at the opposite end of the car park bank and finished with a heavy mixed net of fish .
16 Hosts : Ruminants Site : Small intestine Species : Bunostomum trigonocephalum sheep and goats B. phlebotomum cattle Distribution : Worldwide Gross : Bunostomum is one of the larger nematodes of the small intestine of ruminants , being 1.0-3.0 cm long and characteristically hooked at the anterior end .
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