Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Sets of papers from the conference are likely to appear at the end of this year . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Even the son had had a tang to him , although he had proved surprisingly hard to digest at the end . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The royals won a bumper rise two years ago in a deal due to last until the end of the decade . |
| 21 | And Billy had listened to the TV pundits and read the papers , and said to himself it was sure to happen in the end . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Contracts had already been awarded , and construction was due to start by the end of 1991 . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | And it was Silvia , not Ronni , who was the first to arrive and the more reluctant to leave at the end of each lesson . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The most you may be able to say at the end of it is that you ‘ gained understanding ’ ; to some of us that may be unsatisfactorily intangible , while to others it may be of profound significance . |
| 30 | Okay , Bellow , I knew , was not due to arrive till the end of the week ; but where the hell were Márquez , Lessing , Gordimer ? |