Example sentences of "[art] end [prep] [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 By the end of 1887 he had begun to extend his operations to other ports in the north east and claimed to have enrolled about 200 members .
2 Towards the end of each I will describe a recent example of a person who lived and suffered in such a way .
3 At the end of 1404 he retired from his position as king 's chief carpenter , but his pensions were paid until 18 October 1411 .
4 At the end of 1866 he had asked the Governors for a testimonial , as he was applying for a post in the Midlands :
5 Since the stock of dinar assets held by households has risen much more slowly than this , the proportion of household assets held in foreign exchange accounts has steadily grown : while in 1980 this proportion was less than 40 per cent , by the end of 1986 it had reached nearly 70 per cent .
6 The Data Protection Registrar , in publicising a closing date of May 1986 for the receipt of registrations , had no idea how many data users ought to be registering ; in the event the flow of registrations was far slower than had been hoped , but by the end of 1986 it was clear that the higher guesses were more likely to be right .
7 Construction of the Sighthill Bypass commenced in September 1984 and with work substantially complete by the end of 1986 it is being opened to traffic some nine months ahead of programme .
8 At the end of 1986 I started an MSc course , specialising in expert systems .
9 At the end of 1986 I was put on the waiting list and stopped work .
10 He was formerly Director of Consumer Affairs at the Office of Fair Trading and for nine years until the end of 1986 he was Director of the National Consumer Council .
11 Then is towards the end of 1989 you have not managed to pay it all back we will give you the option to switch your borrowing to a loan account .
12 Construction of the Gilmerton Bypass commenced in February 1988 and with work substantially complete by the end of 1989 it is being opened to traffic some eight months ahead of programme and within the target date of 1990 for the entire Bypass .
13 He opted for the latter and at the end of 1989 he launched his debut album ‘ Brand New Star ’ which sold very well , got a lot of radio play , and , most important of all , it introduced the songs he had been composing and singing at concerts to a wider public .
14 By the end of 1981 we had 310 collections and reckoned to have covered about three-quarters of the region .
15 When the late Conservative administration did its sums at the end of 1963 it found that its future programme worked out at an annual rate of increase of 4.1 per cent .
16 At the end of 1976 I actually met several people , whom I could talk to , who acknowledged that they were gay and , as a consequence , I then subsequently admitted — and that 's the word I still use — that I was gay .
17 Towards the end of 1936 it had already become clear that the French blockade of Spain represented a serious blow to the Republican cause .
18 But at the end of 1983 they were worried enough to close 25 miles of beaches for six months .
19 By the end of that he 'll have been Blades boss for nearly nine years !
20 Erm the tentative benefit you put in at the end of that you said is that okay and Maggie said yes erm the answer could be construed I , I thought in that basis well yes it 's okay so what whereas if you 'd 've said is that of interest to you
21 At the end of 1894 she was elected as guardian for the Vauxhall board of the Lambeth Poor Law Union .
22 Some time towards the end of 1943 I was approached by the US Office of War Information to see if I would join their staff as adviser on Burmese subjects and language .
23 At the end of 1987 they had failed to reach the semi-finals of the World Cup and then played two drawn series against India and Pakistan , in the latter case coming close to defeat before squeezing a two-wicket victory to square the rubber .
24 At the end of 1987 I was again in hospital and was then top priority , according to Magdi Yacoub , or MY , or the Prof , depending on whom you talked to .
25 By the end of 1980 we had made 160 collections and , despite problems with the budding technique , nearly 130 of these were safely growing in the nursery .
26 By the end of 1935 they were quite prepared to abandon their former ILP allies in the hope of gaining influence with the 400,000 individua1 members of the Labour Party .
27 I think that by the end of '92 she will be the World No. 2 if not No. 1 .
28 Unless she died in the next few weeks — and why should she die ? — it could be the end of his life on the headland , the end of his organization , the end of all he had planned and hoped to do .
29 But at the end of all I sigh and think if I could but see old England again , and the dear , dear treasures it contains , I would contentedly sit down at my working table and stroke , stroke away to the end of the chapter , that is health permitting . ’
30 By the end of 1991 it was apparent that the referendum to determine the future of the Western Sahara , which had been scheduled for Jan. 26 , would have to be postponed for at least nine months .
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