Example sentences of "[be] [adv] at the [adj] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are the rhyolites , which are right at the other end of the spectrum from basalts ; that is to say they are acid , contain a lot of silica and have the same composition as granite . |
| 2 | These days , it always seems to be in at the deep end for Foreign Secretary , Douglas Hurd . |
| 3 | Once more it was impossible to get high enough to see over the neighbouring branches but he called down that he was reasonably sure that they were now at the southernmost end of the depression which contained the Swamp and that if after another mile or so they turned westward they could do so on dry land . |
| 4 | Once more it was impossible to get high enough to see over the neighbouring branches but he called down that he was reasonably sure that they were now at the southernmost end of the depression which contained the Swamp and that if after another mile or so they turned westward they could do so on dry land . |
| 5 | Vegetable vitamin A , carotene , fell by 30 per cent , and both were now at the lower end of the normal range . |
| 6 | She 's right at the other end of the room and is deaf and blind when she has to be . " |
| 7 | it 's very clear , that 's right at the bottom end of what they think should be recorded and until this recent manual p was published , it changes that low were not recorded . |
| 8 | The entrance is generally at the western end and , opposite on the other side , is an apse where the altar is housed in the sanctuary . |
| 9 | I carry on with the horses , working the horses and then report to him by phone , go in the , in the office and re he 's there at the other end , knows what time I 'm gon na ring him up . |
| 10 | And , despite what many people say , it was nt while delivering the cross for Sniffers goal — it was right at the very end of 90mins … so noone came on for him when he injured his ELBOW . |
| 11 | I enrolled for ‘ Art for Beginners ’ and later went down to the centre where the tutor had obtained a model for us from whom to do quick sketches — so I was in at the deep end . |
| 12 | It was her first appearance in a Willy Russell play so she was in at the deep end . |
| 13 | In fact , it was largely through the middle-class and scientific bias of the new provincial colleges that English Language , Literature , and History came to serve as a so-called " poor man 's classics " , and it was only at the very end of the century that Oxbridge became sufficiently concerned to begin to succumb to the then " national demand " for such studies and introduce new " Schools " and " Tripos " regulations that would allow the ancient institutions to take a lead in these new areas . |
| 14 | Those engaged in classifying creatures in museums worked anyway with dead ones ; it was only at the very end of the nineteenth century that the collecting of dead animals and dead birds gave way to the careful observation of living ones , using binoculars . |
| 15 | But his exit from Ewood Park , barely ten minutes after the final whistle , was still at the stormy end of football management 's meteorological scale . |
| 16 | He reckoned the boy had doubled the price for his ice cream because he was up at the smart end of town , not plying his usual pitch at the bottom of the Acropolis . |
| 17 | Now he was back at the sharp end . |
| 18 | In 1989 the British economy was again at the wrong end of league tables for having relatively high levels of inflation , interest rates , and a trade gap . |
| 19 | This footbridge was however at the other end of the platform , and most passengers got into the habit of going to the station exit across the tracks despite the standard railway warnings not to do so . |
| 20 | Elizabeth 's upbringing was certainly at the other end of the spectrum from Mary 's . |