Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] the [adj] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | My predecessor planned to borrow the thick end of £100 billion in the next three years . |
| 2 | In proportion as its acts tend to promote the same end , its conduct may be termed organised and its several actions correlated . |
| 3 | He wo n't be put off with a surface answer , but he wants to know the far end of everything ’ |
| 4 | AS IT was about to send back its first results , the Science and Engineering Research Council tried to stop the northern end of its funding — the Hipparcos data is being monitored independently by two European teams to ensure accuracy . |
| 5 | Now the government is trying another policy designed to achieve the same end . |
| 6 | The two objectives are designed to achieve the same end . |
| 7 | At the other extreme a number of specialist car producers have come to dominate the luxury end of the car market . |
| 8 | B has to achieve the same end result by using materials available in the early nineteenth century , e.g. |
| 9 | Meanwhile moves were made to tackle the other end of the equation . |
| 10 | I have for the last ten years been writing software using Clipper database and would like to improve the front end on some of the software . |
| 11 | Does this Institute want to forfeit the small end of the market ? ’ |
| 12 | I often draw in pencil , adding watercolour washes , but I also like to use the wrong end of a brush sharpened to a wedge . |
| 13 | Sikes quickly tied the rope around the chimney , then began to tie the other end around himself , ready to lower himself to the ground behind the house . |
| 14 | The more so at Augusta , the arrival of which each year seems to signal the happy end of winter hibernation . |
| 15 | The American companies continue to dominate the higher-priced end of the market . |
| 16 | ( Tel. : 0423 67140 ) Today the £299 Amstrad SM2400 seems to dominate the low end V22bis market . |
| 17 | Another advantage of professional-style camcorders is that they are built longer in the body so that they can he supported on the shoulder — the operator 's hands are then left to steady the front end and operate the controls . |
| 18 | But we also had the attendant holding the door for us as we came out of the changing room because the wind was threatening to tear it off its hinges , as well as relentlessly trying to move the deep end up to the shallow end . |
| 19 | He had obviously managed to make the far end of the alley and slip out under cover of the fog , scant seconds before the other cars had arrived to seal it off . |