Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] at the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thanks to the changing critical climate , the new ideas circulating among filmmakers and the relaxation of the censorship rules , the British films made at the end of the 1930s were much tougher and more emotionally charged , than anything that had gone before . |
| 2 | Lower Manhattan must have looked confusing to them as several different neighbourhoods met at the end of the island , at Coenties Slip . |
| 3 | Several apparently larger and more developed buildings lie at the ends of short side-lanes behind the main frontages . |
| 4 | A more detailed list of Japanese expressions appear at the end of this book ( p. 109 ) . |
| 5 | Whereas the cinema of the late 1940s had forced audiences to confront the realities of post-war Britain , the mainstream films produced at the end of the following decade diverted their anxieties into laughter . |
| 6 | Chemicals trading results are likely to remain depressed , particularly in the European cracking and polyethylene businesses , as the low margins seen at the end of 1992 persist into 1993 . |
| 7 | UN legal experts noted at the end of July , however , that Nicaragua 's electoral legislation was democratic and comparable with the laws in force elsewhere in Latin America . |
| 8 | Not that one would get that impression from the announcement made by WTA after the formal statement by the WIPTC that the constitution of the Council would remain unchanged , at least until current contracts expire at the end of 1994 . |
| 9 | We assume that competent doctors emerge at the end of an obstacle course of traditional examinations based on facts . |
| 10 | Many of them face major cuts to balance at the end of the year and one of them has dangerously low nursing levels . |
| 11 | The number of European households connected at the end of June stood at 24.4 million . |
| 12 | The tragic musical story of a group of viciously exploited young men who rode the back of the drug-frenzied rock-shag monster for two full years to emerge at the end bruised and bloody and battered but changed — changed from grubby little knobsessed small-town caterpillars into beautiful , brilliantly SPIRITUAL butterflies . |
| 13 | The first sentence in each of the above extracts occurs at the end of the paragraph immediately before the one we are examining . |
| 14 | After an extensive review , the London Stock Exchange has recommended the closure of the Unlisted Securities Market at the end of 1995 . |
| 15 | The ethnographer 's conventional notepad can be obtrusive , yet when time in the field extends to a full eight-hour shift , it is impossible to dispense with it , for without notes one is left only with general impressions recorded at the end of the day or fragmentary notes recorded surreptitiously ; yet to use a tape-recorder would have been more obtrusive . |
| 16 | Erm so I think it was probably quite well attended though there were a vast number of these green files left at the end so may be it was n't as well attended as I thought it had been . |
| 17 | This former United States military base had been occupied by homeless families when the American forces left at the end of World War II . |
| 18 | I had known that open fields lay at the end of the runway , so I should have closed the throttle earlier and completed the familiar drill . |
| 19 | In Yugoslavia 's biggest postwar strike , nearly 700,000 workers in Serbia 's textile , leather and metallurgical industries stopped work on April 16 to demand that the Serbian government pay them the guaranteed minimum monthly wage , backdated to January , and that it abolish new taxes introduced at the end of 1990 . |
| 20 | Bella was spreading plants and flowers out on a sheet of newspaper to dry : rose petals gathered at the end of the summer , stock and rosemary and lemon verbena , pinks and thyme and honeysuckle , bay leaves and mint . |
| 21 | It was a very sad play , because the young lovers die at the end . |
| 22 | If you need more information , please do not hesitate to enquire further , either from individual academic departments or from the list of offices and other services listed at the end of this Prospectus . |
| 23 | Labour MPs shouted at the end that it was an affront to democracy . |
| 24 | Special displays placed at the end of a shelf unit or counter , where they catch the customer 's eye . |