Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [noun] at the end " in BNC.

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1 The proportions of counts in the ileal or colonic segments at the end of the experiment were calculated .
2 However , the Full Moon on May 16 could provide a happy ending and , despite the odd hold-up or broken promise at the end of May , things are looking up professionally and financially .
3 It is a tall plant — up to five feet high — with purple stems and pink or white flowers at the end of thin stalks .
4 For example , the desired values of unemployment , inflation and monetary growth at the end of 1987 could be specified to be 2 million , 6% and 8% , or whatever combination is desired .
5 The following were subsidiary and associated undertakings at the end of the year and have all been included in the consolidated accounts .
6 Unlike some mathematical authors , he does not write as though his prime objective is to show how clever he is ; he provides plenty of examples to illustrate his theorems and definitions , and clear summaries at the end of each chapter .
7 A rights issue 12 months ago , raising £44m , saw to that , and left borrowings at the end of 1991 at just £14m .
8 It was another kind of January , a January of sudden snow storms and hard frosts at the end of the month , when a rabble of Catholic Jacobite clansmen under the nominal control of John Erskine , Earl of Mar , came to burn the protestant villages of Dunning , Muthill , Blackford , Auchterarder and Crieff .
9 Further studies in Sprague-Dawley rats showed that intraperitoneal or intravenous injection of VPDPR changed the pattern but not the overall consumption of food with a reduced intake at the beginning and increased intake at the end of a four hour test period .
10 In what promises to be a fascinating collection of thirty-four essays , American and German scholars chart the emergence of New York and Berlin as parallel centres of artistic and technological innovation at the end of the nineteenth century in Berlin — New York : Unlike and Unlike : Essays on Art and Architecture from 1870 to the Present edited by Josef Paul Kelihues ( £60 ) .
11 It is in the three largest works on the recording that Demidenko is at his very best , with incredibly strong and deep sonorities at the end of the C major Toccato , Adagio and Fugue , providing an almost terrifying conclusion to this monumental work .
12 The major social base of European racist movements such as the French National Front appears to be in the native working class , the major activists or such movements appear to be working-class young men — skinheads and the like — and a long era of full or virtually guaranteed employment ended , in western Europe during the 1970s , in central and eastern Europe at the end of the 1980s .
13 It saves time and effort on the part of the typist not to have to put commas at the end of each and every line of an address and full stops at the end of an address and after the date .
14 The Westboro company is able to shrug off the small but steady and grinding losses because it still had $196.2m in cash and marketable securities at the end of the quarter .
15 Commenting on its reduced second quarter loss ( figures , page seven ) , Data General Corp said that while it was n't satisfied with its overall results , it was encouraged by the continued success of its AViiON family of Unix computers , which showed significant growth over the year-ago quarter , and it remains cautious for the short-term because of the weak worldwide economy and because it sees no evidence that industry-wide pricing pressures will abate in the near future ; the Westboro company is able to shrug off the small but steady and grinding losses because it still had $196.2m in cash and marketable securities at the end of the quarter .
16 It was also in this film , when he had a long and exacting monologue at the end , that he finally saw it as what he termed an allegory to his own career : he had the chance of taking a university scholarship but instead chose to take to the road and share his life with some interesting characters , though by this stage of the story in the film itself , Dupea 's liberation is being challenged .
17 You conducted Elektra again in Salzburg in 1964 — I remember Szell , who also knew Strauss , giving you and your cast long and heartfelt applause at the end of the performance — and a Salome was announced for that time , too , which did n't in fact come about for a number of years .
18 In the pre-Gockley era , the HGO never attained the glamour of its sister companies in Dallas and San Antonio ; it was best known for presenting young stars on the rise ( Plácido Domingo was a regular in the 1960s ) and legendary performers at the end of their careers ( Inge Borkh and Richard Tucker , among others ) , in very traditional productions of the core repertory ) .
19 Maybe because the routine of washing-up is basically enjoyable — hot water and clean plates at the end of it .
20 He had a soft face and a long white beard with red , yellow and blue bits at the end where he had dipped it in strange chemicals by mistake .
21 The course is assessed by means of clinical and written examination at the end of the first year and by assessment of a thesis based upon a research project presented after the third year .
22 A considerable investment has been made in the redevelopment of the Piper field , which achieved first oil in February 1993 , having been delayed by construction schedule slippages and bad weather at the end of 1992 .
23 Bonar Law added a few effective but unremembered sentences at the end .
24 General Robert Nivelle , who had taken Joffre 's place as French Commander-in-Chief at the end of 1916 , was particularly confident .
25 Two sections of the thesis are to be submitted to Mind and Language for publication as separate papers at the end of March and the whole to be published by the Harvester Press as The Philosophy of First Language Acquisition .
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