Example sentences of "[adj] that [prep] [art] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | This restoration of the sense of life may well be an effect frequently produced by techniques of making strange , but Shklovsky makes it clear that in the end the object itself is not important , but merely a pretext for art . |
| 2 | On the question of unresolved property claims ( numbering 1,200,000 , of which 10,000 were for businesses ) the Cabinet agreed on March 12 that until the end of 1992 investors who created or sustained jobs should be given priority over previous owners [ for agreement on property rights and ownership regulations in unification treaty see pp. 37536 ; 37661 ] . |
| 3 | This section 7(3) required the LTE so to perform their functions as to ensure so far as practicable that at the end of each accounting period the aggregate of the net balance of the consolidated revenue account of the LTE and of their general reserve was such as might be approved by the GLC ; and that if , at the end of any accounting period , the aggregate showed a deficit , the amount properly available to meet changes to revenue account in the next following accounting period should exceed those charges by at least the amount of that deficit . |
| 4 | The interesting thing of course was his ro , his brother Robert was a civil engineer and the story goes , of course , they disagreed so much that in the end George said okay Robert you can have the civil engineers , I 'll start with mechanical engineers ! |
| 5 | Gulliver 's Travels went back to telling fantastic tales , but Swift wrote the book in the same realistic style as Defoe , and took it for granted that his readers would find it quite natural that at the ends of the earth men were just the same as in England — petty , trivial , grasping , and generally unpleasant . |
| 6 | And in view of the later age of marriage and often long engagements of the Edwardian years , it seems likely that by the end of the nineteenth century there was a new degree of sexual restraint amongst many young adults of the working class . |
| 7 | The stories always came out well in the end , and if one of the officers was a coward or incompetent , you could be sure that by the end of the story he would have done the decent thing and charged the machine gun nest singlehanded , getting killed in the process . |
| 8 | ‘ We are still confident that at the end of the day we will find out who killed Mrs Shelley . ’ |
| 9 | try and get some information on this they felt that they were confident that at the end of the day that erm , approval would be given but erm I I I asked for it in writing and they said we would n't be getting that . |
| 10 | ‘ We are confident that by the end of March there will be no one in the North-East on a waiting list for more than two years meeting guarantees given in the Patient 's Charter . |
| 11 | By Colin Gibson Liverpool 2 Wimbledon 3 MAYBE it was predictable that at the end of a week of distractions for Liverpool , Wimbledon should benefit at Anfield last night . |
| 12 | We all had a pleasant evening , and I was very impressed that at the end so many people came and said , ‘ How can we help the University ? ’ |
| 13 | It was evident that by the end of the seventies Britain would be self-sufficient in oil and was likely to remain so , depending on depletion policy , until at least the end of the century . |
| 14 | Information came to light on Jan. 8 that at the end of December the Serbian national bank had secretly issued 18,300 million dinars ( US$1,400 million ) of new money without approval by the federal National Bank of Yugoslavia , in order to make a loan to the Serbian government . |
| 15 | Revealing for the first time the size of the Exchange Fund ( which guaranteed the Hong Kong dollar ) , the Financial Secretary , Hamish Macleod , announced on July 15 that at the end of 1991 foreign reserves stood at US$29,000 million , the 12th largest in the world . |
| 16 | Would she even have started the relationship if she had not been reasonably certain that in the end he would not leave his wife ? |
| 17 | Some years ago the teachers of one language pronounced themselves satisfied that at the end of a year the students of it had the capacity for literary reading ; the equally competent and concerned teachers of another language were convinced that their students had achieved no such capacity , and that the process was rather a waste of time . |
| 18 | Others , like yourself , are aware that in the end a new baby is normally incorporated into the financial structure of family life somehow or other . |
| 19 | In the silence that followed she gradually became aware of David 's stillness ; so aware that in the end she was forced to twist her head so that she could see his face . |
| 20 | The pain was becoming so intense that by the end of the day she could hardly grip her scissors . |