Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the end of " in BNC.

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1 Annual railway construction more than trebled between the end of the 1880s and the boom years of the late 1890s .
2 This was sooner than had been expected , President José Eduardo dos Santos declaring that it was not necessary to wait for the end of the war to initiate the reforms .
3 The servers will be followed by 75MHz Indigo boxes , also slated for the end of 1993 .
4 Solbourne Computer Inc , Longmont , Colorado , plans to deliver versions of its symmetric multi-processing ( SMP ) Sparc server architecture with a least 20 CPUs by the time Sun Microsystems Inc manages to wheel out its own 20-way SparcCenter 2000 slated for the end of next year ( UX No 411 ) .
5 Alongside the programme of developing the franchise chain — Wilmslow and Bromley open shortly , with Belfast , Harrogate and Kingston planned for the end of the year — Rodier Hommes is building up a network of approved stockists around the UK .
6 After rehearsals , Sir calls us together And each group performs their play , But just as it comes to our turn The bell goes for the end of the day .
7 Which point of speaker-change , among the many , could be treated as the end of one chunk of the conversation ?
8 Wilberforce J held , among other things , firstly , that the retention provisions , which operated after the end of the employee 's employment , substantially interfered with his right to seek employment and therefore operated in restraint of trade ; secondly , that the transfer system and the retention system , when combined , were in restraint of trade and that , since the defendants had not discharged the onus of showing that the restraints were no more than was reasonable to protect their interests , they were in unjustifiable restraint of trade and ultra vires ; thirdly , that the court could examine a contract between employers only and declare it void on grounds on which such a contract would be declared void if it had been a contract between an employer and employee , and that it was open to an employee to bring an action for a declaration that such a contract was in restraint of trade , inasmuch as it threatened his liberty of action in seeking employment , which was a matter of public interest ; and , fourthly , that it was a case in which the court could and should grant the plaintiff the declarations sought .
9 Intravenously administered vasoactive intestinal polypeptide instantly changed absorption to secretion and the effect stopped after the end of the infusion .
10 ‘ shall have effect as if it granted or provided for the grant of a tenancy for a term of 10 years , subject to a right exercisable either by the landlord or the tenant to determine the tenancy , if the war ends before the expiration of that term , by at least one month 's notice in writing given after the end of the war ; …
11 At 194p , down 7p yesterday , the shares stand at a discount of 37.5 per cent to the net asset value expected for the end of this year .
12 ‘ We gigged through the end of ‘ 88 to ‘ 89 .
13 One can not train students and then let them fall off the end of the course into a professional abyss .
14 The fight will be rescheduled for the end of this year .
15 The fight will be rescheduled for the end of this year .
16 Spontaneity was given organised form on 11 October when antislavery delegates from Bath , Bristol , Exeter , Gloucester , Taunton , Devizes and Westbury met at Bath and resolved to work for the end of apprenticeship by August 1838 .
17 Further verbal pictures of Wordsworth at this period may be found in Thomas De Quincey 's Recollections ; but 1805 may be considered as the end of his youth .
18 In 1944 representatives of every allied government met in Chicago and drew up a convention containing ninety-six articles which were to provide the framework upon which civil aviation could be rebuilt after the end of the Second World War .
19 This advantage is considerable since the bitter fraction may then be chemically manipulated to produce bitter iso a acids from the a acids and so provide a PIKE product which may be added towards the end of the boil or even afterwards .
20 The Manchester Citizens Corporation was alone in lobbying for such provision , but its capability in this area became increasingly constrained towards the end of the Programme period ( see below ) .
21 But of all I had read so far , nothing troubled me more than two notes I encountered towards the end of the seventh chapter .
22 This is due to appear towards the end of the year , but in the meantime the two companies have extended their relationship so that Office will be sold through all Novell reseller channels .
23 Another example of , of a similar thing er that you mentioned towards the end of your paper was where an external stimulus interferes with dreams .
24 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 .
25 The 174-seater restaurant , run by catering manager , re-opened towards the end of last year after being totally refurbished .
26 But when no announcements of conclusive victory emerged in the following few weeks , people began — as was reported towards the end of October — to express their impatience that the struggle for Stalingrad was taking too long and costing too many lives .
27 The Nonconformists also had reason to feel disappointed , since the relief granted was considerably less than the civil and religious liberty which they had enjoyed towards the end of James 's reign .
28 Cade towards the end of his life was being superseded by Jewish moneylenders , and as a Christian usurer he would come to appear as something of an anomaly after his death .
29 Nevertheless , the actual origin of the mechanical clock remains a mystery , although it probably occurred towards the end of the thirteenth century .
30 The committee 's full recommendations are expected towards the end of this year or early 1990 .
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