Example sentences of "[noun pl] at the [adj] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | You er , ma , it balances out the er , benefits from like the whole of the term and it 's not necessarily , like a with profits system , you get a lot of bonuses at the very end . |
| 2 | Talk to Robin Slade and you know he 's a man who 's studied his sheep ; not from the point of view of winning awards with animals at the other end of a halter , but from a desire to produce the ideal carcass with that all-important round muscle . |
| 3 | But the drinkers at the far end of the garden were gone . |
| 4 | Jackson Chatterton had appeared in canary yellow pyjamas at the far end of the stateroom . |
| 5 | It believes DEC is more than capable of meeting its goals at the top end of the market — in the same way that Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM Corp capitalised on the performance of their respective HP 9000 Series 700 and RS/6000 lines when they were introduced . |
| 6 | It believes DEC is more than capable of meeting its goals at the top end of the market — in the same way that Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM capitalised on the performance of their respective HP 9000 Series 700 and RS/6000 lines when they were introduced . |
| 7 | Like many designers at the top end of the market , he has an impressive range of accessories , from scents to handkerchiefs — making the range slightly more accessible . |
| 8 | But with Gazza at one end of the scales , even a pound of turnips at the other end will come close to achieving that . |
| 9 | Never could they securely hold the Rhine until the Frisians at the lower end of it and the Saxons across it were tamed and Christianized . |
| 10 | Later the building was reconverted into two cottages as is shown on the maps of the 1850's , with stables at the western end . |
| 11 | Corbett grabbed a groom who was trying to lead a horse to the stables at the far end of the bailey but the fool could not understand him and Corbett simply drew a blank look , followed by a shrug and muttered curses . |
| 12 | A typical Copepod structure is retained with the characteristic egg-sacs at the posterior end . |
| 13 | She said there were seasonal opportunities at the top end of the restaurant trade and predicted real volume opportunities in frozen , value-added products . |
| 14 | Patrick , crouched over his books at the other end of the table , never asked his advice ; but then Patrick had always been faintly hostile and jealous of a masculine encroachment on a territory that had been his alone since the departure of the two eldest boys . |
| 15 | Again , if you find you arc always walking back and forth to a larder or pantry , or to shelves at the other end of the kitchen , a storage trolley or cart which you could wheel up when necessary should help . |
| 16 | The leg raises are done the opposite way round , with the feet at the lower end of the incline bench . |
| 17 | Objections to the deposit plan have been received concerning two adjoining sites at the northern end of Skelton , topic area D thirty nine which is a paddock , and topic area D forty which is a small field between the paddock and the A Nineteen . |
| 18 | Out-gunned 11 caps to three , Tigers ended a run of defeats in this annual frolic with a five-try triumph , topped off with a typical Baa-Baas ' style try , started in front of their own posts and finished by Tony Underwood behind the posts at the other end . |
| 19 | The first R/3 pilot site in the UK is a subsidiary of German natural detergents company , Henkel Chemicals AG , which will run R/3 on a Hewlett-Packard 890/200 database server accessed by X-terminals at the front end and serving 250 users . |
| 20 | At £15,000 per annum per patient in 1982 the hospitals were 40 per cent more expensive in running costs than asylums at the cheaper end of the range . |
| 21 | As expected ( UX No 393 ) , Data General Corp last week rolled out eight-way , high-end versions of its Motorola Inc 88000 RISC-based symmetric multi-processing AViiON servers , plus two models at the low end . |
| 22 | However , this is at the expense of a new problem of economically providing , on the lowest model in the range , all the hardware facilities needed on models at the upper end of the range . |
| 23 | To illustrate the point further , some bridges are fixed at one end , but rest upon rollers at the opposite end , to allow for expansion . |
| 24 | The assertion , ’ If it is n't hurting , it is n't working , ’ shows callous disregard and ignorance of the effects of social problems on individuals , families and communities at the sharp end . |
| 25 | Briggs and colleagues discovered fossils of 4cm-long eel-like animals from the Early Carboniferous of Scotland , each of which carried a set of conodont elements at the anterior end . |
| 26 | Here again , both the size of larger holdings and the number of cottagers at the bottom end of the social scale increased as the Stuart era progressed . |
| 27 | The record , many copies of which still turn up among the ditches and hedgerows at the leafier end of Whaddon , portrayed a hope and optimism belied by bailiffs at the turnstiles , and its hummability led players and supporters to see the coming season and decade as the dawning of a new age . |
| 28 | But this does not mean that it is fitted only to be used on matters at the extreme end of the spectrum of abstraction — that it can , for instance , discuss people only in so far as they are rational beings , or sets of behaviour-patterns , or immortal souls . |
| 29 | Petion waved in reply , and called the message down the line towards the Marines at the far end of the docks . |
| 30 | For a later trial lower and upper points were chosen on the ad hoc basis that ‘ an approximation to the subject was visible ’ ( though interfered with by black areas at the lower exposure and white areas at the upper end ) . |