Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] at the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | Draw up a life table for a cohort of 5000 students showing , for each year of study , the probability of leaving and the expected remaining stay calculated on the assumption that one-tenth of the leavers in any year depart at random times during the year and the remainder go at the end of that year . |
| 2 | So it was last Tuesday night , when the change allowed at the end of our whacky version of five-card rolling draw brought your correspondent the most beautiful five of spades he had ever seen — face down what 's more — to go with the A-2-3-4 he was showing . |
| 3 | Part of the reason why the shareholders had to wait so long for a return was that the original capital had been only 10,000 guineas , and the Company financed itself by fairly short-term loans from the merchants with which it did business , so the shareholders stood at the end of a long line of creditors but could expect substantial returns on their money in the end if the Company survived . |
| 4 | The burglary happened at the end of February when Darlington Borough Council were changing locks at 500 old people 's flats after spare keys went missing . |
| 5 | The burglary happened at the end of February when Darlington Borough Council was changing locks at 500 old people 's flats after spare keys went missing . |
| 6 | I lay on my back , my head on the sandy ground , staring out to the side where the body of the buck lay at the end of a little curved line of black , and tangled in the arm-rest and grip of the catapult . |
| 7 | In each case , the Creole comes at the end of the speaker 's turn . |
| 8 | Of the ‘ preferred ’ fruit trees , the distributions of the adult trees of three of them closely resembled the seed shadows made by the tamarins in a way not unlike that of the birds mentioned at the end of section 6.2.1 . |
| 9 | If the proposals announced at the end of last year by the Lord chancellor go through , up to 12 million people could find that they are not eligible or can not afford legal aid after April 1st . |
| 10 | The course for the MA ( Honours ) in History falls into two parts , with the division coming at the end of the second year . |
| 11 | The Guardian left at the end of the 1950s , and even the Star was shortly to move to the Smoke . |
| 12 | Three fours eight , nine , ten queen high the pairs stuck at the end though dear . |
| 13 | These boys , when tested , were found to have an average IQ of 80 , thus showing a significant degree of recovery from the level reached at the end of the first year . |
| 14 | Although economic recovery led to a resurgence in manufacturing investment after 1983 , it was only in 1988 that it finally surpassed the level achieved at the end of the 1970s . |
| 15 | Will the period be extended , or will the trade union be almost forced to concede what the employers want at the end of 16 months ? |
| 16 | Roll , roll , roll the spliff twisted at the end |
| 17 | Roll , roll , roll the spliff twisted at the end , fuck a duck |
| 18 | As the moratorium on takeovers within the industry ceases at the end of 1993 the combined group will be in a position to be a predator and former hunter Manchester-based Granada could turn into the hunted . |
| 19 | The rDNA repeat at the end of chromosome III was always placed incorrectly next to the rDNA repeat at the beginning . |
| 20 | It was n't the cars there , it was the cars turning at the end of the road |
| 21 | I 'm partly agreed with you the fact that the stock take at the end of the day we got it right , but all I 'm saying it was very difficult |
| 22 | ‘ The interview came at the end of a long day . |
| 23 | Although the programme finishes at the end of the month , head gardener Carole is still thinking ahead and planning for future displays . |
| 24 | The deal came at the end of the 20th annual session of the intergovernmental commission on economic co-operation between the two countries . |
| 25 | This may suit some since , as the authors note at the end of their hard-hitting proposals , ‘ none of these suggestions offers easy solutions ’ . |
| 26 | This criticism leaves open the possibility of a different sort of causal theory , on the lines suggested at the end of 2.2 . |
| 27 | The Princess lives at the end of the same road . |
| 28 | Further information on any of the items mentioned may be obtained from the contacts and the bibliography given at the end of the review . |
| 29 | We were talking about budget decisions and after the microphones closed at the end of the programme they commented about that home in Blenheim Road in Kidlington , and to them it was n't healthy . |
| 30 | The question asked at the end of the miracle , |