Example sentences of "[vb -s] at [adj] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone stands at one end of the pool , and when it is time to start I swim to the end of the pool and come back . |
| 2 | Ben Nevis stands at one end of the greatest mountain range in the Highlands , buttressing a grand array of ten Munros with altitudes above or near 4000 feet and forming an unbroken high skyline for several miles . |
| 3 | The box stands at one end of a parcel of land upon which there is a complete turnout and associated signals . |
| 4 | Everyone stands at one end of the room with their eggs in front of them on the floor . |
| 5 | Each team stands at one end of the room , in a line , one behind the other , facing the opposite end . |
| 6 | There are two forms of logical shift , which differ in what happens at each end of the binary pattern . |
| 7 | Bevan favoured Barnes 's route ; it was shorter , cheaper and , despite the lock climbs at each end , less complicated than Telford 's . |
| 8 | At the beginning of the 19th century this design was replaced by a convex sauce-boat with a ring handle on the lid , scroll handles at each end and standing in four feet . |
| 9 | Consider the long tendon that attaches at one end to the muscle flexor digitorum profundus and at its other end to digit 3 . |
| 10 | The bolas spider spins a single filament which she weights at one end with a drop of glue . |
| 11 | The area swept by the curved line , in the plane , compensates at each end of the quadrilateral so that the area is : length of B 's path times the effective perpendicular length of line . |
| 12 | A second option to ease Selborne 's traffic nightmare is the introduction of pinch points at either end of the village , with road humps in between to slow drivers down . |
| 13 | You know they mean it , too : a huge second cooling fan sits at one end of the processor card . |
| 14 | It has been suggested that the prevalent west and south-west winds tend to set up a longshore drift towards Portland , so that the majority of coarse material accumulates at that end . |
| 15 | Mr. Sedley for two of the appellants argues that because of the quasi-judicial nature of the Secretary of State 's task , it comes at that end of the spectrum of tribunal decisions which require reasons to be given . |
| 16 | Standard controls are a single wheel on a fixed left-side-only or throw-over yoke pivoting fore-and-aft on a centreline pillar ; but as it is partly intended for training G-DHCB has twin control wheels at either end of a Y-shaped structure . |