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

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1 ( It is n't relevant whether the creators live or die at the end of ‘ The Food of the Gods ’ ) .
2 She did n't know anyone , could n't eat , drink or speak towards the end .
3 With Speed pushing right up and supporting the 2 forward … would enable him to make his runs into the box , also get on both flanks to cross , or get on the end of Wallace crosses …
4 The explanation is that you lack control or feel at the end of the stick , and the reason is that you do not know where the end is .
5 To stake your claim to a sip from the Sunshine State , send your details on a postcard to BBC Good Food /Beaulieu Wine Offer ( address above ) or call by the end of April on ( 0839 ) 168103 .
6 As a condition of this appointment you are required to accept that if the appointment is not renewed or extended at the end of the period referred to you will not be entitled to claim any rights to complain of unfair dismissal under the Employment Protection ( Consolidation ) Act 1978 , as amended , which authorizes the exclusion by agreement of any such claim in the case of an appointment for a period of one year or more .
7 Laos and Thailand agreed on a plan under which Lao refugees living in Thailand would be repatriated or resettled by the end of 1994 , and in August a security and co-operation agreement was signed [ see p. 38391 ] .
8 The task does not require detailed syntactic processing , simply to know where to pause ( the major syntactic boundaries ) , which words to stress ( distinguishing content and function words ) and whether the sentence requires the pitch to fall or rise at the end ( is it a yes-no question ? ) .
9 1957 : Duncan Sandys ' ‘ Big Bang ’ philosophy , that led to the end of National Service ; 1965 : Denis Healey 's rolling Defence reviews , ending in the withdrawal from East of Suez ; 1974 : Roy Mason 's concentration of resources on Western European Defence , taking the withdrawal from empire to its logical conclusion ; 1981 : John Nott 's intended sacrifice of Maritime in favour of Continental capability , that was aborted by the Falklands Campaign .
10 PONCE : The bit that goes at the end of ‘ Res ’ to make up the word ‘ Response ’ .
11 Annual railway construction more than trebled between the end of the 1880s and the boom years of the late 1890s .
12 Their first single ‘ Mystery Train ’ is restructured with bleeps and beats to sound altogether moodier , while ‘ Senses ’ is one of those emotional anthems that sits at the end of the set .
13 A final analysis problem that we will consider is that mentioned at the end of Chapter 8 — how to deal with syllabic consonants .
14 But you 're the ones it 's not me it 's you that counts in the end .
15 or you could use one or more of the questions that appear at the end of each section of the main text of this booklet .
16 His central idea , the ultimate negation of the will to live , … ( offers ) the only salvation possible " — and turning to his own artistic activities , present and prospective , he added , " I have in my head Tristan und Isolde … ; with the " black flag " that flutters at the end of it I shall shroud myself to die . "
17 The remaining commercial reserves figure is that estimated at the end of the year plus the production during the year .
18 Jebel Ali container volume has increased by over five times since 1988 and general cargo will be more than tripled by the end of 1991 , ’ he said .
19 Everything was Nordic or Russian except the Lehar group that came at the end .
20 The starry-eyed idealists who start revolutions , he told himself , are incapable of visualising the horrors that lie at the end of them .
21 Increased Soviet Jewish immigration to Israel that began at the end of 1989 placed a major obstacle in the way of improved relations between Israel and the Soviet Union .
22 Hello , we must be going : What can you say about a year that began with the end of Maggie and ended with the demise of Gorby ?
23 In this chapter , I have tried to assess the provisions of WFP in the light of the financial management agenda that existed at the end of 1988. 1 have endeavoured to look at the principles behind its proposals , rather than the detailed systems requirements necessary to make them work .
24 I do n't make it blatant but when he makes that deal at the end of the film you know what he 's doing .
25 Uncut diamonds do not glitter and gleam like the cut and polished article that appears at the end of the process .
26 The items below are included in the check list that appears at the end of this book .
27 Next year , they say , the loss could be anywhere between horrible and horrendous , depending on the outcome of negotiations for a new national television contract to replace the one that expires after the end of this season .
28 There was only one thing that mattered in the end .
29 first of all you have to find the right branch — a pine-branch that splays at the end into three , four or five separate limbs .
30 Outside , the garden was empty ; but Ruth found Adam where she 'd expected , under the big chestnut tree that grew at the end of the lane .
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