Example sentences of "end [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was answered at the other end after the first ring by a friendly , but formal , female voice . |
| 2 | This division between town and country became hardened by the end of the nineteenth century into fifty-eight county councils and eighty-two county boroughs in England and Wales . |
| 3 | Francis Seymour Haden 's ‘ earth to earth ’ wicker basket , Dottridge Brothers ' lacquered papier-mâché ‘ earth to earth ’ coffin , the metallic shell with glass face panel and gutta-percha seal — so convenient for viewing the remains of the repatriated — and the shallow cremation coffin with its combustible metal fittings and recessed lid ( tailored to fit Gorini 's furnaces at St John 's , Woking ) were four of the better-known alternatives available at the end of the nineteenth century to those interested in the sanitary disposal of the dead . |
| 4 | Today ( i.e. from the end of the nineteenth century to today ) the competitive market base of nation states has been superseded by the concentration of capitalist markets and the internationalisation of large monopoly and oligopoly capitalists firms . |
| 5 | From the Lincoln presidency at the end of the nineteenth century to the 1920s , Mills argues , an economic elite directed the nation 's affairs . |
| 6 | The first , from the end of the nineteenth century to the First World War , was characterized by rapid scientific and technological advance , the growth of large corporations and trusts , as well as large financial institutions which played an increasingly important role in the economy , and growing tension and conflict between the leading European imperialist powers . |
| 7 | According to their account , the professional-managerial class started to develop towards the end of the nineteenth century as a class which specialized in the ‘ reproduction of capitalist class relations ’ became necessary . |
| 8 | Suburban residential development in Chiswick had already become noticeable by the end of the nineteenth century with Back Common load and the adjoining Bond Street , Holly Road , Clifton Gardens , Belmont Road and Grove on the north side of Chiswick high Road , and with Devonshire Road , Linden Gardens and Bolton Gardens — later renamed Duke Road-on the south side , and a few houses in Dukes Avenue , opposite to the end of Barrowgate Road , which itself had a number of houses , mostly at the Sutton Lane end , close to Dead Donkey Lane . |
| 9 | The division between the private and the public sphere , which was located both in economic development ( the separation of work and home ) and in social ideology , was by the end of the nineteenth century at the heart of moral discourse ; as a corollary , not surprisingly , the development of social purity was to have profound effects between the 1880s and the First World War on the regulation of sexual behaviour . |
| 10 | They had managed to buy the son of inexpensive terrace house which had been built at the end of the nineteenth century for workers and which still continued to be in a working-class area . |
| 11 | As late as the end of the nineteenth century in some Western European states local politics retained their dominance over central concerns , until markets , jobs , and communications like the railways became part of a national whole . |
| 12 | In what promises to be a fascinating collection of thirty-four essays , American and German scholars chart the emergence of New York and Berlin as parallel centres of artistic and technological innovation at the end of the nineteenth century in Berlin — New York : Unlike and Unlike : Essays on Art and Architecture from 1870 to the Present edited by Josef Paul Kelihues ( £60 ) . |
| 13 | Early mining of the concealed coal measures in Nottinghamshire occurred to the northeast of the county town , with later expansion at the end of the nineteenth century in the Mansfield area ( Waller , 1983 ) . |
| 14 | Pamela Allerston came to the conclusion that there was good evidence in Yorkshire for village planning , and suggested the period from 1070 to the end of the thirteenth century for the origin of many villages . |
| 15 | The hostility between Scotland and England began at the end of the thirteenth century with the Scottish succession crisis caused by the death of Alexander III in 1286 and of his only direct heir , his granddaughter Margaret Maid of Norway , in 1290 . |
| 16 | Born at the end of the thirteenth century in the Yorkshire village of Thornton-le-dale , he had studied for some years at Oxford , sponsored by Thomas Neville , Archdeacon of Durham . |
| 17 | Written in Latin , it was translated into English towards the end of the ninth century by Alfred the Great . |
| 18 | Although Byzantium made some inroads in Dalmatia during the next two centuries , the issue was finally settled in favour of Rome at the end of the ninth century by the Croatian prince Branimir ( 879–92 ) . |
| 19 | This means that students must be able to achieve and demonstrate success in Compact terms by the time they reach the compulsory school leaving age at the end of the fifth year of secondary education . |
| 20 | The agreement had been initialled on April 29 at the end of the fifth round of Soviet-Chinese talks on border issues held in Moscow . |
| 21 | The end of the second decade of this century saw a marked change in the sexual climate . |
| 22 | The trade deficit at the end of the second quarter of 1990 was EC$193,300,000 , compared with EC$183,100,000 for the same period of 1989 . |
| 23 | Restructuring costs of £1,064 million before tax were largely a result of the provisions for employee reductions and asset write-downs announced at the end of the second quarter of 1992 . |
| 24 | This subtlety and expertise — often reminiscent of the skill employed at Chedworth ( pls. 57a and 57b ) — suggests " a date nearer the beginning than the end of the second quarter of the fourth century : c. 325 rather than c. 340 , i.e. well before those mosaics in Dorset which are attributable to a " Durnovarian " school ( Smith 1969 , 113-118 ) . |
| 25 | One of the great moments in the literature of the world is a passage near the end of the second part of Dante 's Divine Comedy . |
| 26 | Liz Macdonald from Gloucester helped sail the Nuclear Electric boat over the line first in Tasmania at the end of the second leg of the British Steel Challenge … she was at sea for 48 days … 22 hours … and 26 minutes |
| 27 | ( 1961 ) conducted such interviews at the end of the second year of their research with medical students , using a schedule organized around material gathered from participant observation . |
| 28 | But unlike most schools which set the 2nd MB at the end of the second year of the course , before the students start their clinical studies , Southampton has moved the exam to the end of the third ( first clinical ) year . |
| 29 | Application for admission to honours is made at the end of the second year of study . |
| 30 | At the end of the second year in the sixth form , Gedge formed his first proper relationship with a girl . |