Example sentences of "[be] at [art] end " in BNC.

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1 You 're at the end of the road . ’
2 And so the er , the reward for our firm grip on costs and the concentration on cash is a favourable swing of , of forty seven er , million pounds in the full year and there should be more to come because now we 're at the end of our er , capital spend on newspapers er , the newspapers will of course , become very substantial cash generators .
3 How do you know if you 're at the end of a sentence .
4 ‘ Um — is that putting patients in order of priority as they come in so that you do n't leave people to bleed to death because they 're at the end of the queue ? ’
5 But can I say something erm , Bill , we 're at the end of a Parliament erm John Major
6 ‘ I have n't got many wits , but I 'm at the end of them .
7 well I 'm at the end of it
8 Now at Thorsbury she and Victoria often rode to the fields to watch the men labouring and when it was clear that the work of leading and stacking the corn would soon be at an end , she kept the child entranced with stories of the Harvest Suppers of her youth .
9 But there the EFTA 's work would be at an end .
10 Respectable England was haunted by the feeling that ‘ the safety of society would soon be at an end ’ and that the ‘ dangerous classes ’ were gaining the upper hand because of the weakened authority of the law .
11 However , American involvement would be at an end .
12 Cold War tensions might be at an end but did the Soviets not retain a huge nuclear arsenal , and how quickly could Strategic Arms Reduction Talks ( START ) be expected to progress ?
13 Criminal Justice ( Administration ) Act , s. 4 : ‘ ( 1 ) It shall be lawful for the Director of Public Prosecutions … in any criminal proceedings … to enter a nolle prosequi to such proceeding … and thereupon the proceedings shall be at an end . … ’
14 Even if you succeed in building up a good practice as a junior your troubles will not be at an end , because at that point in your career you will have to decide whether to apply for silk .
15 ‘ If we can find L.L. , the mystery may be at an end , ’ he said .
16 If he was , and I could catch him , perhaps our difficulties would be at an end .
17 If it is felt that incapacity should be at an end an unannounced visit to the claimant may be necessary .
18 His earlier black mood , the brooding silences , seemed to be at an end .
19 With Republican resistance decimated , General Franco unilaterally declared the war to be at an end .
20 Now in a short time he would be gone , and the era that had begun in the 1960S with the triumvirate of Harold Wilson , George Brown and myself would be at an end .
21 The Master of the Rolls , who is originally a very subordinate officer , with charge of the documents of the court , comes to be at the end of the seventeenth century a judge who can hear Equity cases , though there is an appeal from him to the Chancellor .
22 She can pencil in the weight she hopes to be at the end of each month .
23 The West African temperature would be rising during the European spring ; the longer I took , the worse it would be at the end .
24 The Boy does not have that rather hoarse sound that Falla wanted , but sounds merely like a well-trained choirboy. master peter sounds neither servile , which he is at the start , nor terrified , which he should be at the end .
25 Unfortunately , I 'll probably be at the end of my life when it happens
26 Its side wall was covered with the dead fronds of a massive wisteria ; the front showed six large windows , and the front door appeared to be at the end of the house .
27 Could this be at the end of the vacuum-packed salami syndrome ? ’
28 No one from either DEC or the museum could seem to give a clear idea of how complete the prototypes will be at the end of the research contract in April 1995 .
29 ‘ If we 're going to be ruthless , it would probably be at the end of next summer [ 1994 ] , ’ says one minister , mulling over the possibility that Mr Major 's taint of failure proves harder to expunge and that , in best Tory blood-sport tradition , he may have to be cleanly knifed .
30 It was unclear as to what the fate of Korea would be at the end of the Pacific War , since Korean affairs would be subsumed in the profound questions involving the future of Japan and the eventual intervention of the Soviet Union with much depending on the character of the American-Soviet relationship at that time .
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