Example sentences of "[be] [adj] at the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | Served with coffee , these delicious truffles are perfect at the end of a meal . |
| 2 | If adjustments are late at the end of an accounting period they have to be corrected manually causing the work involved in administering the system to increase making it very time consuming for the clerical staff . |
| 3 | Driving through fog on the M25 , listening to yet another radio programme about the recession , it is difficult to imagine that there might be light at the end of the tunnel ; but spring is on its way , and I hope it will bring with it some sign of the long-promised upturn in the economy . |
| 4 | Folly was still confused , but at least there now seemed to be light at the end of the tunnel . |
| 5 | I mean you 've got to be careful at the end of the tax year that you 're actually okay on that ground , er but , and you can make a declaration to the revenue if you 're over the limit , it 's just that I mentioned that because some people like a joint account for it to be received into so that they can both spend it basically . |
| 6 | The administration 's success or failure may be clear at the end of the summer ; very little is clear now . |
| 7 | It used to be amazing at the end of the week to be paid , to have money in your hand for the work you had done . |
| 8 | It 's gon na be crucial at the end of the game . |
| 9 | He called in his full executive to meet us and I 'm sure at the end of the day that this meeting went a long way to the tour going ahead instead of being cancelled ’ . |
| 10 | The editor writes : An index is being prepared and will be available at the end of the year . |
| 11 | Exceed/NT will be available at the end of the month and is priced at $600 . |
| 12 | I must add that we will not be producing daily summaries , er I think it 's a task which is a fairly daunting on and quite frankly , er they will not be produced in the sense At the end That they would not be available at the end of each day . |
| 13 | Will the shareholders be pleased at the end of the year ? |
| 14 | it 'll be nice at the end of the month for you . |
| 15 | Before we consider why processing load might be greater at the end of a clause than at the beginning , we will discuss some experiments which have been carried out on reading , from which a similar pattern has emerged . |
| 16 | If you like , it 's not a pleasant position to be in because someone 's going to be disappointed at the end of the day , but they are diamonds . |
| 17 | The Kendall Square implementation should be ready at the end of the year . |
| 18 | The Kendall port should be ready at the end of the year . |
| 19 | The new space , which adjoins the current gallery , should be ready at the end of the month . |
| 20 | I 'd be surprised at the end of the day if er we did n't find a solution that would enable John Macgregor to go forward . |
| 21 | The more shots you fire into somebody , the more likely they are to be dead at the end of it . |
| 22 | Finding ourselves too tired to be creative at the end of the day , we switched our lives around and put the ‘ thinking ’ hours first . |
| 23 | Of the four transplant candidates who were alive at the end of the study period , one with primary biliary cirrhosis had been referred and had received a liver transplant . |
| 24 | Of the 36 patients who were alive at the end of the study period and who were not considered for liver transplant , 26 had alcoholic liver disease ( 25 not abstinent , one abstinent , but with ischaemic heart disease ) and three had primary biliary cirrhosis ( in two of these advanced disease was manifest but one had additional psychiatric disease and one advanced cardiopulmonary disease ) . |
| 25 | The former Conservative minister and company chairman was being cross-examined at the end of the first week of his libel action against historian Count Nikolai Tolstoy and property developer Nigel Watts , who circulated a pamphlet in 1987 saying the peer was responsible for repatriating 70,000 Cossacks and Yugoslavs to be massacred by the communists in 1945 . |
| 26 | In 1983 , when a much smaller number of students completed IT Advanced Courses , 14 per cent were unemployed at the end of their courses ( 1 ) , a figure which halved in the following six months ( 2 ) . |
| 27 | In addition since the rats on the low fibre diet were heavier at the end of the study , although food intake measurements at 12 weeks showed no difference between the two groups , it is possible that the differences in morbidity were due a variation in calorie intake since caloric restriction is known to prolong life in rodents . |
| 28 | ‘ You were incoherent at the end … ’ |
| 29 | Times were hard at the end of the war . |
| 30 | He was even kind sometimes , letting old age pensioners have credit if they were short at the end of the week , and once he sent a box of free groceries to a poor woman whose husband had died of pneumonia . |