Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nineteenth-century Boulton and Watt , Maudsley and Harvey beam engines are here , where until the end of the Second World War they supplied water to west London . |
| 2 | ‘ You see you have to have a situation in schools where in the end teachers — and this gentleman is a visiting teacher — can give reasonable orders to people just as you do in a home . |
| 3 | The contrast painted between the intense , vibrant , imaginative life of the child outside school ( where at the end of the day the eight-year-old collapses into deep sleep a few seconds after rushing round ‘ being a lorry ’ ) and the drab , pointless monotony of his classes is as striking as it is disturbing . |
| 4 | This was playing games where at the end of training there was no greater number of jobs available . |
| 5 | The government interest was even stronger in the upper chamber , where by the end of Anne 's reign between 40 per cent to 50 per cent of those peers active in the house held places or pensions from the Court . |
| 6 | Given the circumstances , some variation in quality was inevitable , but this was more pronounced initially than towards the end of the pilot period . |
| 7 | He remained utterly fearless throughout his playing career with us , although towards the end of it he was constantly dislocating a shoulder . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Knowing Phillip and Arthur , they would never have tolerated fools gladly and Meli was certainly up to scratch intellectually — although towards the end , she was very frail . ’ |
| 9 | It was so wonderful every time she kicked although towards the end I got terrible backache and I was so tired all the time . |
| 10 | Right , so I think , on some occasions there was some confusion , although towards the end , it was certainly quite |
| 11 | Leaving aside discussion of case loads and the closure of cases ( to be covered below ) the development officers found this referral rate entirely manageable except towards the end of the referral year when case loads were at their peak and referrals were also high ; for example , the development officer in Newham remarked in January l985 ‘ I feel a bit shell-shocked this month with ail the new referrals together with all my problem cases ’ . |
| 12 | Except towards the end , she reverted back to her baseline style . |
| 13 | Surprisingly , the leaves of white clover suffered proportionately much less from grazing by sheep than did those of R. repens , but leaves of T. repens suffered much more from both slugs and weevils ( except towards the end of the growing season ) . |
| 14 | The movement of melody and harmony do not coincide ( except towards the end ) . |
| 15 | In sex the body is central , and although in the end it is more than the body that is loved , the body is the beginning and fat women just can not get started . |
| 16 | And he managed to live until he was seventy-one , much longer than the expectancy of any hellraiser , although in the end it was the drinking that took him in 1988 . |
| 17 | Claiming that although in the end ‘ their services had not been required ’ , he thought that nevertheless ‘ they would have expected and received some share of the proceeds ’ and it was presumably while Griffiths was being handed his share of the proceeds from Mr Ross 's safe that bits of brown paper and bits of white paper could have found their way into his overcoat pocket . |
| 18 | Although in the end a good many men were taxed on wages , a number in Kerrier hundred initially had goods worth £2 , making the true overall percentage of labouring people a fairly normal 36.6 , almost the same as in Devonshire . |
| 19 | Although in the end William IX of Aquitaine failed to make good his wife 's right of succession to her father in Toulouse , a generation earlier his father Guy Geoffrey had succeeded in annexing Gascony , pleading in justification his father 's marriage with the heiress Prisca . |
| 20 | What lovely skill that was by Thomson in a very tight situation although in the end he 's given it away . |
| 21 | ‘ There 's an upper berth in a section , ’ she said slowly , ‘ but it only has a curtain , and no facilities except at the end of the car , and it 's hardly what Xanthe 's used to . ’ |
| 22 | names which include the words ‘ limited ’ , ‘ unlimited ’ or ‘ public limited company ’ ( or abbreviations thereof ) anywhere except at the end of the name ; |
| 23 | Although at the end of Bair 's lengthy work a number of contradictions and conflicts do remain , this is nevertheless a meticulously researched study which provides many insights into de Beauvoir 's world . |
| 24 | The result of all this was that , although at the end of the century a third of the population still lived below the poverty line and the diet of the poorest included items such as white bread , condensed milk , and vegetable oil margarine , the earnings of a Lancashire cotton operative in 1913 permitted him ‘ a breakfast of coffee or tea , bread , bacon and eggs — when eggs are cheap — a dinner of potatoes and beef , an evening meal of tea , bread and butter , cheap vegetables or fish , and a slight supper at moderate price ’ . |
| 25 | Although at the end of the first stanza , Coleridge still puts faith in ‘ Eternal strength and wisdom ’ which are everywhere around us , and this might indeed correlate with the vast intellectual breeze , and Spirit , of earlier poems . |
| 26 | LEO — WITH Saturn still in your opposite sign — albeit at the end of his marathon run — and Pluto muscling in too , this is not a year for faint-hearted Leos . |
| 27 | The number of participants varied from evening to evening : attendance was higher at the beginning of the week than at the end . |
| 28 | The best time to start exercising is at the start rather than at the end of a dieting campaign . |
| 29 | It is easier when you are feeling fresh and alert after a good night 's sleep than at the end of a busy day , easier for short periods than for long periods . |
| 30 | More striking by the 1820s than the continuity of the theme of the incompatibility of slavery with a true moral and religious order was the much fuller expression than at the end of the eighteenth century of the precepts of economic liberalism as part of the antislavery appeal ; abolitionists now clearly departed from mercantilist policy assumptions . |