Example sentences of "be the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | That should have been the end of it . |
| 2 | Doone , with his promise of instant detection once I woke up , must have been the end of hope . |
| 3 | It would have been the end of The Wedding Present , ’ says Solowka . |
| 4 | I think it must have been the end of a beautiful friendship . |
| 5 | It was during the filming of the opening titles for the last ‘ Marti ’ series for the B.B.C. Dressed in a red chiffon evening gown , high heels and lead-weighted knickers , I had to sit on a rock at the bottom of a tank full of sharks , smiling and brushing my hair , while Duncan swam past with a plywood plaice bearing the immortal words ‘ End of Part One ’ ( it could have been the end of several parts ! ) . |
| 6 | THIS has been the end of an era . |
| 7 | ‘ If it was then Kevin would have killed them with the first bricks he threw and that would have been the end of the film . ’ |
| 8 | He got rid of me and that should have been the end of it . |
| 9 | As Michael Gordon explained in these pages two decades ago : ‘ If all Blake had offered was a framework , that would have been the end of it . |
| 10 | It would seem from the pleadings to which I have referred that that should have been the end of the case . |
| 11 | The Session would not agree to the time ; and that seems to have been the end of it . |
| 12 | If Carson had been predictably agreeable and obviously interested she would have accepted the lift and that , apart perhaps from the promise of a follow-up lunch some time , would have been the end of it . |
| 13 | That would not have been the end of it , but it would have put off the worst , and Tutilo seldom looks beyond the day . |
| 14 | That should have been the end of it but it most certainly was not . |
| 15 | He got into trouble in Holland for exporting arms to a bunch of rebels in one of the new African states , and that seems to have been the end of his freight business . |
| 16 | ‘ That , ’ he continued , ‘ would have been the end of the matter , but Dame Martha had to chatter and threaten to talk to the Lady Prioress . |
| 17 | If he had said , ‘ You need me , ’ then that would have been the end for him . |
| 18 | If we 'd done the wrong things at the wrong time , it could have been the end of Cowley . |
| 19 | One Tory rebel , Michael Carttiss , who caved in after a plea from the Prime Minister himself , candidly admitted : ‘ It would have been the end of John Major . |
| 20 | that would have been the end of my turn . |
| 21 | ‘ You really are the end . |
| 22 | High blood-pressure , headaches and tension are the end result of keeping anger bottled up . |
| 23 | Temper tantrums are the end result and represent the classic example of perpetuation of immaturity by a failure to stop the ‘ reward ’ of attention that maintains such behaviour . |
| 24 | ‘ They say also that the Greshorns are the end of the world , ’ Murtach said shortly . |
| 25 | So we are the end of chapter six . |
| 26 | We , British Gas , are the end users . |
| 27 | If erm , for example , I were to produce a beam of pye mesons , which I can do by taking very high energy protons and making them collide with ordinary hydrogen , then the pyon will come out and it will not live for very long , and I think the lifetime of a pyon is something of the order of ten to the minus eight of a second , which means that pyons only live for about one hundred millionth of a second , and these things then decay into othe particles and these other particles are called muons and they decay into not only do they produce muons , but they produce things called neutrinos and the muons themselves do not live for very long — a muon lives for about two microseconds , which is two millionths of a second — and it decays also into an electron and another neutral particle called a neutrionor , and these neutrinors just are there , they exist very but they are the end products of these decay processes . |
| 28 | Cos we 're the end . |
| 29 | Thinking about women is a way of avoiding the thought of death — and yet women may be the end of you . |
| 30 | And in that case , wrote Harsnet , there is always the possibility that it will not be the end but a simple pause , a mere hiatus . |