Example sentences of "[adj] and [prep] [art] end " in BNC.

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1 Lord Aldington opposed this and in the end Mr Justice Morritt agreed with him .
2 At first they were very calm and at the end , at the end there was a big panic that they was , they were all talking over each other , there was no control , you know , it was a bit rushed at the end , but , that was n't because it was bad planning , it was just they were panicked at the end .
3 They heard Fats Domino on the radio and tried to copy him but they got the bass drum and the snare all wrong and in the end they created this new music .
4 I could n't find what was wrong and in the end I gave up and started to walk home .
5 I found his personality irresistibly magnetic and at the end of his speech I joined the rest of the huge crowd in tumultuous cheering .
6 But the architect had agreed with her that it would make the room much lighter and in the end Matthew had assented .
7 The slow-burning first half may induce yawns but the pace quickens in Act 2 and by the end you do n't want the music and laughter to stop .
8 Iraq invaded and overran Kuwait on Aug. 2 and by the end of August had completely absorbed Kuwait into its administrative structure , despite the international condemnation of the invasion .
9 At the end of 1942 the total was 218,783 and at the end of 1943 235,501 .
10 ‘ Whoa ! ’ is constructed slyly , so from the outside it looks like it was made by tramps in their lunch hour , but in reality it is a nifto exercise in song-building that starts off quiet and nervous and by the end is running about the room shouting and pouring lager into flowerpots .
11 Yet if Parliament would not sink overnight into the insignificance of the Dail , the STV would gradually exercise an insidious and in the end decisive effect on its proceedings and its authority .
12 The de Veres ' change of heart , however , proved short-lived and by the end of the decade the family was again involved in opposition to Edward IV , this time in support of the earl of Warwick , whose sister Margaret had married the thirteenth earl of Oxford , John de Vere .
13 The de Veres ' change of heart , however , proved short-lived and by the end of the decade the family was again involved in opposition to Edward IV , this time in support of the earl of Warwick , whose sister Margaret had married the thirteenth earl of Oxford , John de Vere .
14 We were all expected to work hard and at the end of each term we had examinations .
15 Lewis forward to Ormanroyd , Moore sticking very very tight and in the end pushing the Leicester man .
16 Several of his perfumes seemed promising and in the end she took away samples in three small bottles and promised that she would return when she had tried them out .
17 After the first Education Act of 1870 and until the end of the nineteenth century , control of schools and their curricula was exercised through the enforcement of public education codes by regular inspectorial visits mainly for the purpose of testing pupils in prescribed activities .
18 In contrast , with doubled CO 2 and fully interactive ozone ( run 4 ) the mean column amount decreased steadily after day 80 and by the end of the simulation was 150DU lower than in the other simulations .
19 Despite such criticisms , the British found these courts useful and by the end of the century they had jurisdiction over most rural areas .
20 And that created a slight sort of canary-hopping attitude to policy-making which I do n't think was very good and in the end I think Mrs Thatcher felt the same .
21 For most 18–30 's the night finishes quite late and by the end of two weeks you 'll probably find you 'll need a holiday .
22 The Doctor had explained that in 1969 a man had walked on the moon ; that unmanned space flights to other stars had been sent out in the 1970s and towards the end of the twentieth century manned space flights had visited other planets in the solar system .
23 An Honourable Death is an imaginative recreation of the life of Hector MacDonald , the son of a Highland stonemason who ran away to the Army when 17 and by the end of the last century had become the hero of several adventures in far-flung parts of the British Empire .
24 We were getting on great and at the end they asked if we had drink at home .
25 He opted for the latter and at the end of 1989 he launched his debut album ‘ Brand New Star ’ which sold very well , got a lot of radio play , and , most important of all , it introduced the songs he had been composing and singing at concerts to a wider public .
26 The team began experimenting there in December ‘ 88 and by the end of January it was felt right to go for a public launch on Palm Sunday ‘ 89 with attendant door to door visiting with invitations , and publicity to the press and media .
27 These darkening extremities , or ‘ points ’ , then slowly spread as the young cat becomes mature and by the end of the first year the Siamese has its adult pattern , with the nose colour covering most of its face , the dark ear-fringe spreading to include most of its ear surface , the tail-tip colour extending right up to near the base of its tail , and the pigment at the feet stretching halfway up its legs .
28 Erm as er you went on as er as far as referrals were concerned and the objections that were raised you , you apacked really and , and , and went through and overcome those and at the end of the day you , you got the , you got really what you er what you were aiming for that er to get him to , to speak to these people between now and the next appointment so you could er , you could come back .
29 So a number of theories of perception erm came on to the market as a response to the work of people like in the fifties and towards the end of the fifties we started to get theories of perception which were based on feature detectors .
30 Kinship networks in business became less important and by the end of the century , middle class wives and daughters no longer played an active role in the management of the small family business or shop .
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