Example sentences of "[adv] at the [adj] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have opted for a selection of Amazon Swords , Giant Vallis , Fountain plants , Twisted Vallis and Cryptocorynes , The Crypts will fare better at the dimmer end of the tank . |
| 2 | The main aim was to win new audiences and so there was always room for experiment , especially at the better end of the market . |
| 3 | This evidence is surprisingly extensive , especially at the western end of the site , though more excavation is essential to clarify its distribution . |
| 4 | I mean they , people er , the hairdresser 's for instance , they seemed to be there for evermore at the far end , towards I mean er , er , and then there was half way along on the other side and |
| 5 | She hesitated and then sat down at the far end of one where a lone man was wholly immersed in a newspaper . |
| 6 | Down at the far end of the valley , there was still snow on the upper slopes of the mountains ; they looked as if they 'd been sugar-dusted , with stone walls showing like fine , black veins above the treeline . |
| 7 | Down at the far end someone has fitted a neon sign , but the rest of the sites are anonymous in the night . |
| 8 | He sat down at the far end of the table . |
| 9 | We 'll start down at the far end of what we call the lured mark and from there you 'll have to tack all the way up to this closest one , the windward mark . |
| 10 | ‘ You 're lucky you 're up this end of the Cages with us because there 's … ’ and here he dropped his voice into a horrified whisper , ‘ … there 's a couple of vultures down at the other end . |
| 11 | It was just I , I went down they played Liverpool in the cup about that era , and the , the wall was pushed down at the Street end but erm the people just spilled on the pitch and I do n't think anyone was really hurt , this happened when they played er Liverpool in the cup a couple of years ago the wall was pushed down at the other end on that occasion , but er there was just one , one person hurt but there was n't anybody very seriously injured as I understand |
| 12 | Perhaps once in a film , for a special moment , I might show the whole orchestra , or perhaps at the very end , with the lights down . |
| 13 | Only at the far end was there a light . |
| 14 | Only at the upper end of the market could such beautiful coloured works as Plants of the Coast of Coromandel ( 1795–1820 ) , published under the auspices of the East India Company , or Audubon 's Birds of America ( 1827–38 ) , find a sale . |
| 15 | Grandparents who moved in only at the very end of their lives , just for a few last months , rarely left much of a mark unless earlier contact had been important . |
| 16 | ( I , 817 — 18 ) Sartre arrives at what he calls ‘ the real problem of History ’ , that is how there can be totalization without a totalizer , only at the very end of Volume I. It is not until the next volume , however , that he intends to show how individual actions , separate multiplicities , make up ‘ one human history , with one truth and one intelligibility ’ ( I , 69 ) . |
| 17 | Greek by nationality , he was born and spent most of his life in Russia , returning to the land of his ancestors only at the very end of his days , where he shortly thereafter died . |
| 18 | In fact , it was largely through the middle-class and scientific bias of the new provincial colleges that English Language , Literature , and History came to serve as a so-called " poor man 's classics " , and it was only at the very end of the century that Oxbridge became sufficiently concerned to begin to succumb to the then " national demand " for such studies and introduce new " Schools " and " Tripos " regulations that would allow the ancient institutions to take a lead in these new areas . |
| 19 | He was a writer of the fidgety , costive kind whose works are long in the planning , and meticulous in the execution — only at the very end of a project , when the scaffolding , the foundations , the walls and roof and even the plaster were laid down , did spontaneity and delight take over , in the actual play of , play with , words themselves . |
| 20 | The moment when it enters his or her head , that X was the one who did it , can thus be concealed and brought out only at the very end of the story . |
| 21 | Those engaged in classifying creatures in museums worked anyway with dead ones ; it was only at the very end of the nineteenth century that the collecting of dead animals and dead birds gave way to the careful observation of living ones , using binoculars . |
| 22 | ‘ If you look at something like raising a purchase order , what it tends to involve is combining bits of paper from different departments and only at the very end is a computer entry made — which is not a massive improvement on all-paper systems , ’ said . |
| 23 | Just as a queen bee unwittingly hosts tiny mites that have specialized to graze on her mouth parts , so at the bottommost end of the city did Kefalov house its recycler and scavenger tribes . |
| 24 | He told her so at the very end . |
| 25 | Let's jump in at the deep end — literally . |
| 26 | Worrell had been vice-captain against England in 1953–4 , but when Australia toured a year later the selectors ' feet , apparently , had turned cold ; Denis Atkinson , who had little captaincy experience , was made Stollmeyer 's deputy , and as Stollmeyer then missed three Tests through injury , found himself pitched in at the deep end . |
| 27 | It is possible to jump in at the deep end , buy a farm , and teach yourself , learning by your mistakes . |
| 28 | THE AGRICULTURAL Research Council is about to dive in at the deep end of commercial research by launching the Agricultural Genetics Company . |
| 29 | IN AT THE DEEP END |
| 30 | Lottie was thrown in at the deep end : |