Example sentences of "a [noun] [vb pp] [prep] the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first they were very calm and at the end , at the end there was a big panic that they was , they were all talking over each other , there was no control , you know , it was a bit rushed at the end , but , that was n't because it was bad planning , it was just they were panicked at the end . |
| 2 | The application , made under the name of Deputy Premier and Minister for Foreign Affairs , Kim Yong Nam , followed a decision announced at the end of May that North Korea was dropping its previous insistence on a single Korean seat at the UN . |
| 3 | In his left hand a short piece of rough wood with a razor-blade stuck in the end . |
| 4 | This interpretation has proved to be compatible with other results , including the finding that a click located near the end of a clause tends to elicit longer reaction times than a click located at the beginning of a clause ( Abrams and Bever , 1969 ) . |
| 5 | Very briefly , I would 've preferred to have seen a contract based on the end performance with the grass being cut to a structured length . |
| 6 | Without a word Ramses led us to a boat moored at the end of the dock , a small felucca with a heavily patched sail . |
| 7 | A broadside written towards the end of the 1680s defended the Church of England against the charge that their stress on obedience and subjection had been pressed so far as " to set up arbitrary Power , and the Will of the Prince , above Law " . |
| 8 | LASMO Canada 's shareholders have approved a change in the company 's name at a meeting held at the end of October . |
| 9 | A saw cut in the end of each 1½ × ¾in ash runner has the effect of reducing the thickness of each piece to be bent , in effect allowing a laminated curve attached to a solid straight runner . |
| 10 | Throughout the period , a majority of working class women gave birth at home with no pain relief , the common practice being to pull on a towel knotted round the end of the bed when the pains came . |
| 11 | In the burning pages , he imagined his electro-acoustic instruments sparking and self-destructing like a spaceship set at the end of a low-budget science fiction film . |
| 12 | A communiqué issued at the end of the meeting endorsed a consensus which committed member states to retain the alliance for a transitional period while agreeing to appoint a committee to review the Pact on the basis that it represented " sovereign and equal states … built upon democratic principles " . |
| 13 | A communiqué issued at the end of the talks stressed that " the establishment of a regional security system with participation of the region 's states is the best and most successful method to provide security and stability to the region 's states and people " . |
| 14 | A communiqué issued at the end of the conference condemned the " US-led military campaign against Iraq [ as ] an act of aggression against the Arab nation " . |
| 15 | A communiqué issued at the end of the talks said that " Iran and Iraq and the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) have agreed to set up a joint commission to review the resumption of the exchange of prisoners of war " . |
| 16 | Although some reports suggested that the need for a smaller force had been dictated by plans to reduce NATO forces by up to 30 per cent by the mid-1990s , a communiqué issued at the end of the meeting said that defence spending in real terms " should not be expected to reduce substantially in the near term " . |
| 17 | A communiqué issued at the end of the meeting noted the " significant progress towards a comprehensive political settlement " made by the SNC and agreed to recommend the dispatch of a UN survey mission to Cambodia to begin the process of preparing for the " military aspects " of UNTAC . |
| 18 | A communiqué issued at the end of the meeting said that the three countries had decided to reactivate permanent security commissions with responsibility for " investigation , control and observation at the common borders " . |
| 19 | The CBI 's conclusions are based on replies from 268 manufacturing companies and 151 non-manufacturing companies to a questionnaire completed at the end of last year . |
| 20 | On 28 September , debate was reopened on a Declaration on the Jews , a topic postponed at the end of the second session and , between times , distinctly watered down by the Theological Commission . |
| 21 | Bill , Stella and Jean have a flat built on the end of this house , and Ling has his own quarters near the kitchen . |
| 22 | A word presented at the end of a sentence is considerably easier to recognise than that same word presented in isolation . |
| 23 | A statement produced at the end of a Cabinet meeting of the Turkish Cypriot administration on Aug. 27 rejected Resolution 774 as not constituting " a healthy contribution to the Cyprus negotiating process " . |
| 24 | A statement issued at the end of the meeting declared that the NATO countries would be prepared " to support on a case-by-case basis … peacekeeping activities under the responsibility of CSCE , including by making available alliance resources and expertise " . |
| 25 | The administrative officer of ‘ A ’ Squadron , Lieut John Todd , in a letter written towards the end of July , told me that Leslie 's aircraft was one of several which had dropped men in France on 17 June , and that the other planes had accomplished their mission successfully and had returned safely to base . |
| 26 | A report published at the end of January by the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances highlighted the killing of civilians in Sri Lanka , particularly in connection with the security forces ' campaign ( which peaked in late 1989 and early 1990 ) to eliminate the Sinhala insurgent Janatha Vimukti Peramuna ( JVP ) in the south of the country [ see pp. 37042 ; 37353 ] . |
| 27 | Good lighting , a picture or two or a rug fixed to the end wall will give a whole new lease of life to what could have been a boring dead end . |
| 28 | Angalo had found a pebble that was almost the right shape to attach to a twig with strips torn off his coat ; he 'd never seen a stone axe in his life , but he had a definite feeling that there were useful things that could be done with a stone tied to the end of a stick . |
| 29 | English China Clays , a company formed at the end of the First World War , inherited the wastelands of more than a century of china clay workings , and then increased their extent . |
| 30 | With heavy fighting continuing despite a ceasefire agreed at the end of November , the deputy C.-in-C. of Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) armed forces , Col.-Gen . |