Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | After 1560 , this new English church was engaged in the task of establishing its traditions and defining its boundaries , a process which lasted well over a century and was only effectively completed by the end of the seventeenth century . |
| 2 | Letters regularly occur in certain combinations and positions with , for example , the letter Q always being followed by U , and a number of letters rarely appearing at the end of a word ( e.g. , J V ) . |
| 3 | The legitimacy of present-day regimes depends to an overwhelming extent , and has so depended since the end of the Second World War , upon the effective promotion of a high rate of economic growth ; and if that rate becomes increasingly difficult to sustain , and tends to decline , as a result of both social and physical limits to growth , what will take its place as a legitimating purpose for governments ? |
| 4 | The two smaller ‘ outlier ’ setts would have been completely destroyed by the planned construction work , and so were completely excavated , while the third was only excavated at the end to be affected by the construction . |
| 5 | Their grants would be reinstated from that date and they will obviously graduate at the end of the appropriate term . |
| 6 | Gwendolen 's voice was shrill enough to penetrate from the end of the table , quite putting the Prince off his lobster . |
| 7 | As soon as the soil is dry enough to rake towards the end of the month , do n't delay sowing such hardy crops as cabbage , non-bolting beetroot , lettuce , spinach , peas and broad beans . |
| 8 | This truck stood 9in from the floor , and was constructed to carry two milk churns and , at the same time was narrow enough to pass through the end gangways , so that the churns could be taken from one end of the train to the other . |
| 9 | Now , being left-handed I 'm well used to the pitfalls : reading reviews of great-looking and top quality guitars only to find at the end of the review , ‘ No left-handers available ’ or , more niggling , ‘ 10% extra ’ . |
| 10 | On each of her periods at Hillmarden he had still clung to the faint hope that she was improving , only to find at the end of a week or a fortnight she had made no progress at all and that when Harry — good baby that he was — occasionally cried , this was enough to make Celia so distraught that Brian was forced to accept that it was better for all concerned if mother and baby remained parted . |
| 11 | I 'm sorry Mr , I think we have to press you on this , can I can I take it from what you have said We have to press you because for the reasons we explained on Friday morning , we have to go through the sector sites , if only to find at the end it can not be done . |
| 12 | The full horror of Crocker 's position was only revealed at the end of 1984 . |
| 13 | They came close to ending the European famine last season only to falter at the end . |
| 14 | The new appointments , all made at the end of 1861 or the beginning of 1862 , bespoke a regime that was about to make further changes . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've only got to the end of the year but my family will be carrying on where I left off . |
| 16 | Ideally , you would be better waiting until the end of the year before selling and buying . |
| 17 | ‘ What 's life , ’ he said with a pessimism that fed Richard 's gloom , ‘ only waiting for the end . ’ |
| 18 | The top two semitones , B ♯ and C are , however , rather difficult to produce and should only used at the end of an upward-rushing ff scale . |
| 19 | Grazing species leave characteristic winding trails , and these have been tentatively identified as fossils , but with the usual caution that the trail makers themselves are never apparently preserved at the end of their tracks . |
| 20 | A fixed-term contract naturally expires at the end of the contract period . |
| 21 | The endowment of religious houses and other institutions , though greatly reduced until the end of the century , was thereafter far from contained by this statute and can not be measured simply by the licences enrolled in chancery , since various devices were employed to circumvent the law . |
| 22 | Sheedy may think that Madden , after a club record 375 games and with more than 570 goals during his career , is perhaps coming towards the end of his tether . |
| 23 | The USSR won decisively against all their serious rivals , Yugoslavia , the US and England , in the first five rounds and only slackened at the end when the gold medals were assured . |
| 24 | Are the indicators of success obviously linked with the end result ? |
| 25 | Confusion — the sundering of raskol — was thus itself confounded ; and the crisis or breaking point of his illness followed by his ‘ regeneration ’ ( voskresenie ) and his ‘ passing from one world to another ’ and his ‘ acquaintance with a new and hitherto unknown reality ’ are merely affirmed at the end of the Epilogue . |
| 26 | The lycopods can be found in Devonian or even Silurian rocks , but they are generally uncommon in rocks younger than Permian , and all the tree species apparently disappeared before the end of the Palaeozoic . |
| 27 | On two occasions he joined large dinner parties designed to raise money for particular charities and I witnessed him reduced to slumping over the table on folded arms , where he remained comatose until gently removed at the end of the meal . |
| 28 | He and his colleagues were understandably concerned about the lack of evidence to support the beneficial claims of holistic medicine , but Dr Richards , who thought much evidence could be produced if funds were available , sagely remarked that ‘ absence of evidence is not evidence of absence ’ , a remark that lingered after a discussion that would have been better if longer and better left to the end of this excellent series . |
| 29 | Other advances for fixed periods are only repaid at the end of that period . |
| 30 | It only learns at the end of a search . |