Example sentences of "end in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fascination of writing is the attempt to render personal experience into objective beauty and understanding , how to take the fleeting run of life and suspend it , turn it to something tangible , capable of being perused , of being learnt from by others , beginning with the passionate subjective , ending in the dispassionate objective . |
| 2 | That last phase in Titian 's painting is very free , very tragic , ending in the agonising ‘ Flaying of Marsyas ’ from Kromeriz , and you see similar expressionistic qualities and tragic subjects in Tintoretto , Veronese and Bassano ’ . |
| 3 | A Suitable Boy had been planned as part of a larger whole , a four or five-volume sequence opening in India in the period immediately following Independence and Partition and ending in the present day , when the heroine whose husband was sought in volume one had become a grandmother . |
| 4 | The eastern part of the island , ending in the narrow , curving peninsula of Ponta de São Lourenço , consists of the small plateaux of Poiso , Chão das Feiteiras and Santo da Serra . |
| 5 | It 's not really much larger than a Piper Malibu , but it has that long pointed nose extending forever forward from a rakish windscreen , ending in the quadruple petals of that mean-looking prop , and that makes a difference . |
| 6 | My subsequent business activities were to involve my old colleague Barry Kirby in , commencing January 1981 and ending in the mid-eighties when the premises came in for redevelopment . |
| 7 | Consequently things only started to get funny around four songs in , just as the band began bringing the stops off cleanly and ending in the same places . |
| 8 | The interdigestive cycle of motor activity , or migrating motor complex , starts from the lower oesophagus and migrates but ends in the terminal ileum . |
| 9 | The way it just sort of ends in the first sentence . ’ |
| 10 | I find them extremely depressing but I shall go on slogging away until my term as chairman ends in the early summer . ’ |
| 11 | The TBM 's ‘ long , rakish nose ends in the quadruple petals of that mean looking prop ’ . |
| 12 | But this rhetorical nonsense ends in the old strain of mischievous nonsense : for immediately a list of these pretended natural rights is given … there is not , it seems , any one of which any government can , upon any occasion whatever , abrogate the smallest particle . |
| 13 | ‘ It is a country with opportunities , ’ said Steve : and off they went again , with their second-hand opinions , their echoes of overheard conversations , their phrases from advertisements and tabloid newspapers : and yet to Shirley there was perhaps something comfortable , despite all , something reassuring about the hands of cards , the button and matchstick money , the green baize of the table , the predictable , ancient jokes , the cigarette ends in the big red ashtray : there was safety here , of a sort , safety in repetition , safety in familiar faces and frustrations , and warmth of a sort , warmth and communion of a sort , society of a sort : the society she had discovered as a teenager , when she would slip surreptitiously out of the icy silence of Abercorn Avenue , where the clock ticked relentlessly on the kitchen wall , where Liz propped her textbooks against the Peek Frean biscuit tin on the kitchen table , where her mother sat in the front room listening to the radio , cutting up newspapers ; she would let herself quietly out of the back door and creep down the passage , past the outside lav , through the back gate , round the corner , and then she would run for it , along Hilldrop Crescent , down The Grove , up Brindleford Drive , and across the main road at the lights to Victoria Street , where Cliff and Steve and their sister Marge lived . |
| 14 | The other degenerate case in which can also be transformed to a Schwarzschild space-time but , in this case , the interaction region corresponds to the upper region inside the horizon and all trajectories end in the future singularity . |
| 15 | Prologues and divertissements end in the initial key , but only in L'Europe galante , Aréthuse , and Tancrède does the final act end in the same tonality as the Prologue . |
| 16 | For example , the six male dancers do not always appear in the same place nor end in the same pose in the passages mentioned above . |
| 17 | An example of this is the trigram model used in the TANGORA speech recogniser ( Jelinek , 1986 ) which assumed that histories are equivalent if they end in the same two words . |
| 18 | And then , as you walk up , you really should sort of almost end in the ideal place and then having lined up the shot , put it through like that . |
| 19 | Suzie loved window-shopping , so was n't there a possibility that she might be here , that her quest could end in the next hour or so and she would be spared the ordeal of seeing Rune Christensen again ? |
| 20 | Play was end to end in the first half , but catching Bicester cold after a player had been down injured for some time , Wantage took the lead on thirty five minutes , when Andy Cooper brilliantly volleyed home a touch on from Jamie Alexander for a one nil half time lead . |
| 21 | A second black bar extends from the leading edge of the dorsal fin in a wide curve across the body to end in the anal fin . |
| 22 | Cardiff was the first port to which Tupper was temporarily assigned in May 1911 as Havelock Wilson 's roving representative " to begin the campaign which was to end in the big strike " . |
| 23 | The march , scheduled to end in the Kashmiri capital , Srinagar , on Jan. 26 ( Republic Day ) , had reportedly been organized to express the BJP 's opposition to the special constitutional status accorded to Kashmir and , in particular , to a clause prohibiting non-Kashmiris from owning land in the state . |
| 24 | Developments in Tanzania in the mid 1970s were , however , to end in the direct contradiction of this injunction , a contradiction which is at the heart of Tanzania 's tendency towards an authoritarian state . |
| 25 | The Basque Coast starts off flat , at the top end , with sand and pine trees , then acquires first , shapely beaches prized by athletic visitors for their peculiarly surf able Atlantic waves , and next , low but spectacular rocks and promontories , which are at their best along the curious Corniche Basque , to end in the handsome bay of Hendaye-Plage . |
| 26 | Sure , there are differences , they 've got this one-eyed machine and so on , but basically it 's the same thing , and we even tell them it 's going to end in the same way with the raft capsizing . |
| 27 | A protracted final " make or break " negotiating session began in Luxembourg on Oct. 22 and ended in the early morning of Oct. 23 with the conclusion of an agreement between the seven-member European Free Trade Association ( EFTA ) and the 12-member European Communities ( EC ) on the creation from January 1993 of a common European Economic Area ( EEA ) , the world 's largest common market embracing 380 million people . |
| 28 | Scotland 's trip to Argentina began with a wave of nationalist euphoria and ended in the complete ignominy of their exuberant manager scuttling around a field hiding pep-pills . |
| 29 | The story of the London dock strike which began on 14 August 1889 and ended in the so-called Mansion House Agreement on the following 14 September has often been told . |
| 30 | This isolated existence was ended in the 1850s when external pressures from Western powers forced Japan to re-open diplomatic and trading links . |