Example sentences of "end with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lewis began his Narnia stories for children in 1949 , but he had been publishing fiction for adults since Out of the Silent Planet ( 1938 ) , a mixture of space-fiction and theology that he was soon to extend into a trilogy , ending with That Hideous Strength ( 1945 ) . |
| 2 | I dream of Strathspeld , and the long summers of my childhood passed in a trance of lazy pleasure , ending with that day , running through the woods ( but I turn away from that memory , the way I 've learned to over the years ) ; I wander again through the woods and the small , hidden glens , along the shores of the ornamental lochan and the river and its loch and I 'm standing near the old boathouse in that defeatingly bright sunlight , light dancing on water , and I see two figures , naked and thin and white in the grass beyond the reed beds , and as I watch them the light turns from gold to silver and then to white , and the trees seem to shrink in on themselves , leaves disappearing in the chill coruscations of that enveloping white blaze while the view all around me becomes brighter and darker at once and all is reduced to black and white ; trees are bare and black , the ground smother-smoothed in white and the two young figures are gone , while one even smaller one — booted , gloved , coat-tails flying behind — runs laughing across the white level of the frozen loch . |
| 3 | She hated herself for remembering , not just that last ugly confrontation in the campagna but the things that had preceded it , the good things , starting with the fun they 'd had together and ending with that long , sweet night she 'd spent in his arms . |
| 4 | Our experience of MCI Communications Corp 's MCI Mail service makes us feel that it has a quite impressively user friendly interface , whereas we find it difficult to believe that British Telecommunications Plc 's Dialcom — or good ol' Telecom Gold — is really quite as user-hostile as it appears , so having hit a snag in MCI and keyed ‘ help ’ at the prompt , and got a couple of screens of useful information ending with two phone numbers and a further option to key at the prompt , we wondered what Gold came up with if you keyed ‘ help ’ — here is the answer — Top-level directory not found or inaccessible . |
| 5 | He ate a gargantuan meal , starting with some plovers ' eggs they had overlooked earlier , working on through a few roast geese with a brace or so of ducklings on the side , and ending with one half of a cheese and a couple of bowls of fruit . |
| 6 | The most obvious case is where we have a word ending with one or more consonant letters followed by ‘ le ’ ( or , in the case of noun plurals or third person singular verb forms , ‘ les ’ ) . |
| 7 | Despite the fact that the victory came during the fasting month of Ramadan , tons of sweets were distributed by people from all walks of life starting with school children and ending with industrial tycoons . |
| 8 | Stage 10 from Sheffield to Liverpool is 116 miles , ending with eight laps of a city centre circuit . |
| 9 | The story circulated that the Warwickshire committee asked Calthorpe to delay taking the new ball to prolong the entertainment : certainly W.G. Quaife , the aging Warwickshire star , bowled luxurious legbreaks throughout the afternoon , ending with 3 for 154 . |
| 10 | To the best among them he offered opulent breakfasts ending with stronger drink than coffee . |
| 11 | Soon he is digging like a whirling dervish , the impressive show ending with another frantic leap . |
| 12 | The evening was one of international good will , ending with another round of vodkas ‘ for the road ’ . |
| 13 | What a pity that , for once , our girls seemed to make no headway at all , ending with another disastrous defeat in the Maureen Connolly Trophy , ( the final result of which the LTA , in its own magazine , managed to get wrong ) . |
| 14 | In due time the Latin Church decreed that Easter should be ‘ celebrated on the Sunday following the first full moon on or after 21 March ’ , and although this simplified matters slightly Easter Day might still fall on any one of thirty-five days , starting with 22 March and ending with 25 April , and the whole of the calendar was controlled by this wide spectrum . |
| 15 | I shall then describe conditions in the central gaol I visited , ending with some comments about the possibilities and prospects for change . |
| 16 | That being so , a long course of decisions , beginning with Dr. Bentley 's case [ Rex v. Cambridge University ( 1722 ) 1 Stra. 557 ] , and ending with some very recent cases , establish , that , although there are no positive words in a statute requiring that the party shall be heard , yet the justice of the common law will supply the omission of the legislature . |
| 17 | ‘ a long course of decisions , beginning with Dr. Bentley 's case [ Rex v. Cambridge University ( 1722 ) 1 Stra. 557 ] , and ending with some very recent cases , establish , that , although there are no positive words in a statute requiring that the parties shall be heard , yet the justice of the common law will supply the omission of the legislature . |
| 18 | ( 5 ) In this section , the expression " the winter period " means the period beginning with 1st October and ending with 31st March . |
| 19 | With a pair of knitting needles you can make the joining of three stitches together , with a hole on each side , by knitting yarn round needle , yarn round needle , thus starting with three stitches and ending with three stitches . |
| 20 | The second part follows the familiar pattern of research design , from the planning stages , through the collecting to the analysing of data , ending with three action research case studies at primary , secondary and further education level completing a competent exposition . |
| 21 | He was lying , clothed , on his back , legs apart , elbows resting in the snow with his arms inexplicably pointing straight upwards ending with contorted , blue fingers , like a pair of old , gnarled trees . |
| 22 | Beginning and ending with formal parades , it displayed all the paradoxes of an occupation whose function was simultaneously to be both the controllers and the controlled . |
| 23 | Both have undistinguished trilling song , but Tree Pipit 's normally ends with distinctive far carrying ‘ see-er , see-er , see-er ’ . |
| 24 | One , the British gay director Richard Kwietniowski , has taken the simple reading a stage further by making the prize-winning short film , Flames of Passion ( 1990 ) , which is both pastiche of and homage to the Coward original , reworking its iconography into an updated story of gay romance that begins with hurried glances on a station platform and , times having changed , ends with intertwined consummation on the train . |
| 25 | May 20–26 has been designated ‘ One World ’ week by 18 national TV stations : it kicks off with a German production , The World In Our Hands , which highlights global issues from pollution to Third World debt , and ends with One World , One Voice , a two-hour musical chain letter masterminded by Kevin Godley and featuring 150 international musicians . |
| 26 | In particular I value the record by the Dutch ensemble Quink ( Etcetera KTC 1031 ) , which starts with the Mass for Four Voices , ends with four pieces from Gradualia , and in a miscellaneous central group finds space for one of Byrd 's contributions to Sir William Leighton 's Tears of 1614 , the delightful ‘ Come , help , O God ’ . |
| 27 | Barnes nightmare ends with perfect tonic |
| 28 | For instance , Stravinsky 's Symphonies of Wind Instruments ends with nine bars based on the chord progressions E minor , D minor , and C major , but by adding foreign diatonic notes to each chord he forms small clusters which obscure the harmony and give it a mysterious fascination . |
| 29 | Each piece quoted here ends with new material , in each case giving added force and brilliance to the ending of operatic arias : |
| 30 | The 116-mile stage ends with eight laps of a city centre circuit . |