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

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1 ‘ He was due to retire at the end of the year anyway .
2 With 800–900 of Switzerland 's 2300 professors due to retire before the end of the decade , the Swiss have taken a leaf out of Britain 's book and set up a scheme for appointing ‘ new blood ’ assistant professors at the rate of 300 in each of the next two four-year planning periods .
3 This is due to appear towards the end of the year , but in the meantime the two companies have extended their relationship so that Office will be sold through all Novell reseller channels .
4 No , it even says in here , it says look , there well may be groups of supporters in different categories who 'd like to arrange seats together , unfortunately not be able to do this unless you are prepared to wait until the end of the main selling period
5 curly , has a curly got in the end of your in the end of your knob ?
6 But I was so confident I would feel the solidness of either chub or root my reactions are not prepared to stop at the end of the strike .
7 The 25-person , privately-owned White Cross is busy setting up overseas operations : a Dallas , Texas-based office is due to open by the end of the year and a Far East office will follow in the first quarter of 1993 .
8 Duclos-Lasalle , 37 , who is likely to retire at the end of the season , converted two previous second places , a fourth and sixth , into victory when he arrived alone on the velodrome at Roubaix to one of the warmest welcomes in the long history of the race .
9 Martina Navratilova announced she is likely to retire at the end of next year after she blasted aside Manuela Maleeva-Fragniere 6–2 , 6–2 in the first round of the Virginia Slims championships in New York .
10 Sets of papers from the conference are likely to appear at the end of this year .
11 ‘ Look : I ca n't say this strictly , as a scientist , but it is my feeling that a bonfire , grilling a kipper or lighting a cigarette all release greater concentrations of dioxins than you 'd be likely to find at the end of the pipe of a properly run high-temperature incinerator . ’
12 MOST of the 45,000 ex-Soviet troops in Poland are likely to leave by the end of the year after the resolution of a two-year row over the pull-out .
13 A fourth , less substantive , Pensions Directive is likely to emerge before the end of 1992 as Brussels makes a supreme effort , under Sir Leon Brittan 's Commissionership , to bring Freedom of Services to the financial sector by ‘ 1992 ’ .
14 Moreover , he was a natural conservative who felt out of sympathy with Irish nationalism , a cause which he thought likely to triumph in the end .
15 You may , you may have lec the lectures are supposed to finish at the end of this term , but if , you know , a lecturer has been ill or has n't managed to get through the stuff erm , you may have some lectures next term , but er
16 That year saw England 's famous World Cup victory , and James Cossins recalled ‘ the difficulty of getting us all out of the wardrobe at the Duke of York 's — the only room with a TV set — in time for curtain up on the second house on the Saturday night that England won , and the fact that the cast were almost too hoarse to get to the end of the play .
17 This was a time of very rapid warming at the end of a little ice age and if we can understand how the climate changed at this time , we 're much better able to predict future climatic perturbations as the earth warms up due to the addition of greenhouse gases .
18 Even the son had had a tang to him , although he had proved surprisingly hard to digest at the end .
19 A ‘ token ’ cut in interest rates of half a point to 10 p.c. was nevertheless likely to happen before the end of the month .
20 Consideration by Ministers of the member states at the Research Council is likely to follow at the end of December and it is hoped that this will produce a ‘ common position ’ , that is agreement on the proposal possibly as amended in the light of the comments of the Parliament and of the advisory bodies to the Council .
21 They may even go lower , but there 's certainly the clear indications from the city that , and from informed sources that interests rates are likely to rise towards the end of this year .
22 The royals won a bumper rise two years ago in a deal due to last until the end of the decade .
23 And Billy had listened to the TV pundits and read the papers , and said to himself it was sure to happen in the end .
24 A lease might purport to be made for the duration of the war subject to the tenant 's right to determine before the end of the war .
25 Contracts had already been awarded , and construction was due to start by the end of 1991 .
26 ‘ The requirement of a creditor to wait 12 months before claiming relief instead of being able to claim at the end of the first quarter after an insolvency ( as was possible previously ) has an adverse effect on his own business 's cash flow .
27 The Italian Transport Minister , Carlo Bernini , said on Sept. 19 that an agreement had been reached with the truck drivers ' union under which all drivers seeking transit permits would be able to cross until the end of the year .
28 And it was Silvia , not Ronni , who was the first to arrive and the more reluctant to leave at the end of each lesson .
29 Cos if you were asked as , as , as a person by , by a manager or by somebody else to , to actually do the training , then it 's your responsibility is n't it you 've been asked , you 've been given that task and it 's your responsibility to ensure that people are able to do at the end of the session something effectively .
30 It had taken a week to obtain , and had Hapsburg officialdom realized that it was for him rather than Aranyos it would have been unlikely to arrive before the end of the war .
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