Example sentences of "[is] at the [adj] end [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the extensive repair works on the building following this incident , Richard Baxter preached in St.Bride 's at the other end of Fleet Street . |
| 2 | A POKE in the eye when referees or fans are not looking , or when the ball 's at the other end of the field the centre-half lays out the centre-forward with a right-hander . |
| 3 | The feeling was echoed by staff at Taylor 's butcher 's at the other end of Skinnergate . |
| 4 | Now I 'm working to save the earth , ’ says Mitsu Kimata , who is at the sharp end of Body Shop 's thrust into Japan . |
| 5 | The pyramid system means that the operating unit is at the sharp end of action and is supported by a very broad base of other services which in turn are supported by others all the way down to the base of the pyramid . |
| 6 | The area of the interface is about 650 2 , which is at the lower end of the range observed for molecules that exist as dimers . |
| 7 | The boy who puts unwanted chocolates , sweets , nuts and raisins and chewing gum into the trolley at the checkout can not put his hands to mischief if he is at the other end of the checkout using them to put his mother 's groceries in the box ( see page 111 ) . |
| 8 | The obvious starting point for this discussion is at the other end of the life course , with elderly parents who can no longer live independently . |
| 9 | ‘ Are you sure the Bishop 's castle is at the other end of town ? ’ |
| 10 | Buying something like a car is at the other end of the spectrum from holding cash . |
| 11 | Mary , her younger sister , is at the other end of the spectrum . |
| 12 | This well-styled jacket , incorporating Karrimor 's now familiar K2 logo , is at the pricey end of the market but has enough winning features to guarantee it 'll be popular . |
| 13 | Pictured above is a beautiful hand-painted wooden egg which , at £71.50 , is at the expensive end of Joanna Wood 's large collection of Easter eggs , chickens and bunnies . |
| 14 | Although the virtually monosyllabic Palance is at the receiving end of much of Crystal 's sophisticated comic patter , the Marlboro Man is the real philosophical hero of the place , a creature who has honed his life down to one simple idea . |
| 15 | The absence of any correlative obligation on the part of him who is at the receiving end of the transaction may be material , but is not conclusive , in determining whether it contains an element of bounty or not . |
| 16 | The site of the latest killings is at the southeastern end of the Tonle Sap ( Great Lake ) , the headwater of the Tonle Sap river which flows into the Mekong at Phnom Penh . |
| 17 | So it is at the opposite end of the scale — with the small sums lent by weekly credit collectors — that the personal interview in the home is the rule . |
| 18 | Granting a Sunderland council application for him to be sent to the unit , the magistrates at the Family Court hearing in the city said : ‘ It is unfortunate … the nearest placement is at the opposite end of the country . ’ |
| 19 | Granting a Sunderland council application for him to be sent to the unit , the magistrates at the Family Court hearing in the city said : ‘ It is unfortunate … the nearest placement is at the opposite end of the country . ’ |
| 20 | All men at Maidstone are long sentence prisoners , serving more than four years , and it is at the top end of the scale , with life sentence prisoners , that Maidstone performs its second specialist task . |
| 21 | The new 820 has four ‘ engines ’ and is at the top end of the IBM mainframe family but is not actually the most powerful . |
| 22 | CPU : with a CPU performance rating of 111.45 , this machine is at the top end of the performance scales . |
| 23 | The district council actually commented to me that they 'd like to see that entrance opened where that er derelict building is at the top end of Church Street car park , which would be an ideal entrance . |