Example sentences of "[be] at [art] [adj] end " in BNC.

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1 ‘ The reason we drink is we 're at a loose end . ’
2 We 're at a loose end , Cynthie and me — I 'm up at Trinity , you know , but I 've been ill — ha ha ! — and have to stay down this term .
3 Yeah , you 're at the right end !
4 Casualty doctors who 're at the sharp end see the evidence that speeding is deadly .
5 It must be incredibly frustrating to have the weight of climbing opinion against you if you 're at the front end of the game and you want to climb a new line without considerable risk of topping yourself unless you place bolts .
6 Ah but that 's the devil to try and coordinate that with an orchestra when you 're at the other end
7 If you 're at the other end , you 're actually producing something , bear in mind your opening sentence , your opening paragraph , your headline , your title , must actually hook people in .
8 Squatters have long felt they 're at the receiving end of a bad press and have have welcomed tonight 's opportunity to express their side of the story .
9 You 're at the wrong end of the snake , you 're okay .
10 If I find I 'm at a dead end , then I can ask for outside help .
11 Tim tries massaging my lower back during the contraction and it feels great — he wo n't be at a loose end from now on !
12 Bert , Alice was pleased to see , missed Jasper , tended to be at a loose end .
13 One 's best friend 's cousin 's daughter might well be at a loose end after leaving art college .
14 They 'd be at a loose end when it was over , which would be the time to approach them .
15 I just happened to know that Geoffrey was keen to meet you again , and you do seem to be at a loose end at the moment .
16 ( As suggested in Chapter 1 , ‘ larks ’ tend to be at the lower end of the range and ‘ owls ’ towards the top of it. ) • Where are the sense organs that pick up such external factors ?
17 However , the introduction of the new lower 20% tax band on the first 2,000 of taxable income in March 1992 should help improve the position of some 4 million people who are thought to be at the lowest end of the income scale .
18 When the trust is in demand , prices are likely to be at the upper end of the range and the trust is said to be on an ‘ offer ’ basis .
19 On January 22nd Alan Greenspan , chairman of the Federal Reserve , suggested that it would be at the low end of that range largely because much of the equipment being used would not be replaced .
20 The effect of these changes will be far-reaching and transport will , in many respects , be at the sharp end .
21 Ms Hargreaves , 32 , from Derbyshire , will be at the sharp end of the project .
22 Ms Hargreaves , 32 , from Derbyshire , will be at the sharp end of the project .
23 Somewhere people are drumming — it must be at the far end of the village , because at times the rhythm is distinct but when the wind takes it it becomes muffled , merging with the roar of the full monsoon river .
24 Therefore instead of walking all the way along the cliffs that morning , he decided to go down to the beach on the last lap of his journey , knowing that Edna and her small charge could well be at the far end , from whence he could quickly scramble up the pathway to the Tremayne property .
25 As she continued her searching look , trying to make out what might be at the far end , she became aware that she was gliding .
26 ‘ I ca n't picture it , ’ she said , ‘ but it could be at the far end from the flat . ’
27 WHEN engineers working for the Tokyo gas company , get a telephone call in the middle of the night , the chances are that a computer will be at the other end .
28 ‘ Could be at the other end .
29 Among the many shocks being delivered by the declining years of the twentieth century is that of discovering , after decades of thinking we were the true moderns , how modern they could already be at the other end of the century .
30 but you 've got to find the place there it could be at the other end a mile away could n't it ?
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