Example sentences of "end [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end of the nineteenth century the Devon was finding a warm welcome in the American West ; there cattlemen associated red coats with good , profitable beef and the Devon bulls proved invaluable on ranches where endurance and the ability to travel in search of water and grazing were essential . |
| 2 | By the end of the nineteenth century the Guernsey was described as native to Alderney , Sark and Herm as well as Guernsey and was still kept pure by restrictions on imports . |
| 3 | Inevitably , these sociétés became ever more specialized and less accessible intellectually to the layman , so that by the end of the nineteenth century the universal sauvant had effectively disappeared . |
| 4 | By the end of the nineteenth century the lower middle classes were actually seen as the bulwark of respectability . |
| 5 | Indeed , by the end of the nineteenth century the incest taboo was seen as the very key to culture in anthropological works and occupied a pivotal position in Freud 's theorisation of the dynamic unconscious . |
| 6 | By the end of the nineteenth century the quay was deserted ; and now it is a grass-grown waste covered in part with the ruins of houses and other buildings . |
| 7 | At the end of the nineteenth century the verdict of the legal philosopher Dicey was that laissez-faire had given way to collectivism ; that government had begun to assume a role in society that had taken Britain well on the way to becoming a socialist state . |
| 8 | However , the fact and success of world-scale specialism are undoubted ; for instance , towards the end of the nineteenth century the Lancashire cotton industry exported nine-tenths of its output . |
| 9 | By the end of the nineteenth century the friendly societies were also in financial trouble . |
| 10 | In 1860 the foreign secretary urged British diplomats not to use unnecessarily " this very costly channel of communication " , and until at least the end of the nineteenth century the ministers in China and Japan , to save money , were still guided , except in serious emergencies , by despatches which took five weeks to reach them via the Suez Canal , or four if they were sent across Canada . |
| 11 | At the end of the fifth month the length has grown to around 250 millimetres about half the length of a full-term baby but the weight is still only about a tenth of what it will be at birth . |
| 12 | Towards the end of the Labour Government the entire experiment was being reviewed ; some ministers and civil servants had found the experience troublesome . |
| 13 | Absurd of him , because at the end of the following week the annual staff assessments were due to be drawn up by the Superintendents . |
| 14 | By the end of the 19th century the house of phrenology , built as it was on scientific quicksands , had crumbled . |
| 15 | By the end of the 19th century the nude or partially draped figure was still of central importance to sculpture , and the arena in which the sculptor 's skill and intellect would be measured . |
| 16 | Inside , I saw Mr. Mendez and John Russell at one end of the long table the stage passengers sat at . |
| 17 | It was essential because by the end of the second half the nerves were jangling . |
| 18 | At the end of the second year the exercise is done again , and at the end of the third year , when it has more significance … bearing in mind their choice of subjects for the fourth and fifth year . |
| 19 | By the end of the second day the visitors had reached 239 for 7 , only Gomes and Lloyd making an impression as Allott , recalled after a two-year absence , headed for his best Test return or 6 for 61 . |
| 20 | By the end of the second day the excitement had worn off . |
| 21 | By the end of the second day the allies claimed to have taken 20,000 prisoners , to have destroyed 270 enemy tanks and to have progressed more rapidly than anticipated . |
| 22 | By the end of the 1787 season the White Conduit Club had merged with the new Marylebone Cricket Club . |
| 23 | Towards the end of the infantile period the child is becoming more perspicacious . |
| 24 | Towards the end of the Tsarist period the Slavophils , Dostoevsky , Tolstoy , and others tried to bridge this gulf . |
| 25 | Gastrulation , in the sense of continued ingression through the streak , persists up to and during the 10th day of gestation , but towards the end of the 8th day the first signs of organogenesis are apparent . |
| 26 | At the end of the five years the society 's variable interest rate will apply . |
| 27 | These darkening extremities , or ‘ points ’ , then slowly spread as the young cat becomes mature and by the end of the first year the Siamese has its adult pattern , with the nose colour covering most of its face , the dark ear-fringe spreading to include most of its ear surface , the tail-tip colour extending right up to near the base of its tail , and the pigment at the feet stretching halfway up its legs . |
| 28 | By the end of the first year the members felt sufficiently established to start collecting books and money for the library and had been asked to send a copy of their rules to Oban where it was hoped to form a similar society . |
| 29 | At the other end of the First Division the whipping boys , Bedford , who have conceded 190 points in their four games , include the 17 ½ stone No.8 Steve Harris at inside centre against Orrell . |
| 30 | They attracted increased attention soon after the Roman conquest , so much so that by the end of the first century the great sanctuary and classical temple dedicated to Sulis Minerva , together with the bathing establishment , had been fully developed . |