Example sentences of "[vb -s] the [adj] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trapped whales of Scapa Flow heading for the open sea again David Hartley records the successful end of Operation Gentle Shepherd |
| 2 | The fish snatches the free end and disappears back to the deep . |
| 3 | The novel articulates the loose end as boredom , again transpersonalized . |
| 4 | The siphon contains the sensitive end of the sensory neuron , which , at its other end is directly connected , at a synapse , with a motor neuron controlling the muscles of the mantle cavity . |
| 5 | He shakes out the match and places the spent end on the work surface beside the cooker . |
| 6 | It needs the dead ends cut . |
| 7 | One student holds an end of the optical fibre on top of the l.e.d. in the transmitter and another holds the distant end on the top of the phototransistor . |
| 8 | In his hand he holds the precious end of an old frayed piece of rope , the kind pedlars sold piles of on Lima 's Abancay — the beginnings of an answer . |
| 9 | go beyond the association between the epidermal growth factor ( EGF ) receptor , Grb2 and Sos , and show that , in Src-transformed cells , the Shc adaptor protein replaces the EGF receptor as the phosphotyrosine target and presumably achieves the same end point ( activation of Ras ) . |
| 10 | For this modest Cape , as Magellan and his men were soon to discover , marks the eastern end of ‘ the Strait that shall forever bear his name ’ — the entrance , at long last , to the Mar del Sur . |
| 11 | The west front closes the eastern end of the Piazza S. Marco ; this façade shows the rich and vital contrast between dazzling white marble and sombre coloured mosaic recesses . |
| 12 | I do n't think you 'd have hair that long and be a policeman Geoffrey gets the wrong end of the stick unfortunately does n't he ? , eat this cheese slice if there 's any |
| 13 | The Fender ca n't really cope with the 335 at high volumes because it 's such a powerful guitar , so the Hartke adds a hard kind of edge and it keeps the bottom end really tight and sharp . ' |
| 14 | Doohan , who speaks most disarmingly of his riding technique — ‘ Really , I do n't know what I 'm doing ! ’ — employs the front end slide technique to a monster extent on four-strokes . |
| 15 | She pokes the other end inside her nostril . |
| 16 | It 's a stroke of great fortune that the Cluanie Inn 's proprietors are more enlightened , since the building dominates the eastern end of the glen . |
| 17 | Designers such as Giorgio Armani , Gianfranco Ferrè and Cerruti have turned what Cerruti himself terms ‘ casual chic ’ into a fashion credo that now dominates the top end of the world fashion business . |
| 18 | Fountains Fell dominates the northern end of the dale and from its flanks looking southward you can see the Tarn and the head of the dale spread before you . |
| 19 | The probable evolution of Hurst Castle Spit is shown in Fig. 8.26 , from which it can be seen that , with the wearing back of the coast from A to C , the spit will occupy successively the positions AA' , BB' and CC' , the last being its present position , in which it preserves the recurved ends of former stages . |
| 20 | Under the influence of the dominant north-east winds erosion takes place in the east , while longshore drift prolongs the western end until , in stage 2 , the bar has a form comparable with Thornham Western Island , the original western part of the island being preserved as a recurved lateral in the middle of the inner side of the island . |
| 21 | who winds the grizzled ends of his moustache |
| 22 | However , it is not the propriety of marriage itself they question — this remains the inevitable end of a young woman 's life ; the issue is what kind of marriage they should aspire to . |
| 23 | And , of course , when entertaining family or friends , a cup of smooth , rich-tasting coffee makes the perfect end to a delicious meal . |
| 24 | History rather suggests that the discipline needed for insurrection lingers on as an authoritative force after the revolution in a way that blocks the larger end of a socialism that advances opportunities for freedom and self-development through a true democracy of equals . |
| 25 | The two leaders enjoy an uneasy alliance , with Skarsnik controlling the mountains around Karak Eight Peaks and the eastern end of Death Pass , while Gorfang controls the western end of Death Pass and the adjoining area . |