Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | A new Church of England Church had also been erected at the southern end of Sutton Lane , and was named St. Michael 's as the money for it had been realised by the sale of St. Michael 's Church in Burleigh Street , London , which had been associated with St. Martins-in-the-Fields . |
| 2 | At its top the uterus is two inches across , and from each side come the fallopian tubes , themselves about 4½ inches in length , which serve as the channel down which the ovum travels from the ovaries , which are situated at the far end of the fallopian tubes . |
| 3 | The vineyards of Mailly-Champagne are situated at the northern end of the village on fairly flat ground where they fare exceptionally well . |
| 4 | Because she had been exposed to the luxury end of the market , much of what she found at ‘ Laura Ashley ’ appalled her . |
| 5 | At the present time most of the alterations affecting the spit are confined to the southern end , where it is weakest . |
| 6 | Four cottage almshouses had been built at the eastern end of Strand-on-the-Green , in the first half of the eighteenth century , and dedicated ‘ for Ye use of Ye poor of Chiswick for ever ’ . |
| 7 | In order to avoid this ‘ skin deep ’ quality , in the central atrium the brickwork of the original party wall between the buildings has been preserved at the eastern end of this space to the full height and width of the block . |
| 8 | Rows ( b ) and ( c ) show the simplest form of shift , where zeros are shifted into the vacated end of the pattern , and bits shifted out of the pattern are lost . |
| 9 | KENNETH Clarke appears to have dropped out of the smart betting for the succession to Mrs T , no doubt because he has been landed with the mucky end of the Cabinet stick . |
| 10 | First , a gap had been found at the bottom end of the market , conveying ( or transferring ) small terraced houses with local authority mortgages . |
| 11 | Handpainted cupboards have traditionally been restricted to the top end of the market , but this range comes in flat-pack format at more affordable prices . |
| 12 | Carrington was directed to a nearby farmhouse where ‘ a tall , dark German airman had been arrested at the sharp end of a pitchfork ’ to find only another crowd of excited neighbours and a labourer called Davie Maclean who was getting fed up with the whole affair . |
| 13 | I understand that one of the reasons why it took longer than one would have wished was that the emergency services went to the inappropriate end of the tunnel , further away from the train , and had to be redirected to the other end , which gave easier access to the two trains . |
| 14 | This tends to be skewed towards the favoured end and you should aim to be at the front of the bulge . |
| 15 | The Orc army destroyed a small scouting force of Dwarfs who were unlucky enough to be caught at the eastern end of the pass . |
| 16 | Leaving the track a pathless beeline may be made for the lower end of the trees , there ascending a short way to find Yordas Cave . |
| 17 | Planning and Co-ordination Minister Samuel Doria Medina admitted in late September that final decisions on companies to be sold in the defence area would not be made until the very end of Zamora 's mandate ; presidential and congressional elections were scheduled for June 6 , 1993 . |
| 18 | The consequences of these same changes can also be seen at the other end of the life course , in old age . |
| 19 | This was the kind of language that used to be attributed to the sharper end of the second-hand book world . |
| 20 | I can quote you three particular instances where farmers have rung in with good information only to be told at the other end of the phone what the bloody hell have you rung us for and they 've got nothing within the local police whatsoever . |
| 21 | The Stock Exchange does not provide a class distribution according to size of holdings , yet the 23 per cent of shareholders who own stock valued at less than £500 are unlikely to be found at the upper end of the income scale . |
| 22 | A circular type known as Clava tombs can be found at the northern end of the Great Glen , many without an entrance , which would seem to signify that each was used only once and then sealed . |
| 23 | The oral papillae are slightly flattened and the distalmost papillae may be widened at the free end or in some specimens larger than the others almost opercular . |
| 24 | In the case of mouth , if one knew what an animal 's mouth was , and one were to hear , for the first time , a reference to the mouth of a river , I surmise that there would be little difficulty in construing the meaning ; but suppose one were familiar only with mouth used to refer to the mouth of a river , and one heard a reference to the horse 's mouth , it is by no means certain that one 's attention would be directed to the appropriate end of the horse ! |
| 25 | Whereas it is right to make sure that the value of the basic state pension is preserved for all income brackets we believe that any extra resources should be directed to the poorer end . |
| 26 | As before , any shaping must be conducted at the opposite end of the knitting to the carriage . |
| 27 | The original model required a special bracket to be fitted to the aft end of the cockpit coaming . |
| 28 | The jobs questions can also be tackled from the other end : by negotiating more flexibility over the short term contracts provided both by the university and by outside research sponsorships . |
| 29 | Both the DMM Mamba and the HB Hooker are available open-ended so that a standard karabiner can be attached at the other end . |
| 30 | In Nucella , this has only been observed at the upper end of the scale . |