Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] at [adj] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know they mean it , too : a huge second cooling fan sits at one end of the processor card . |
| 2 | Bevan favoured Barnes 's route ; it was shorter , cheaper and , despite the lock climbs at each end , less complicated than Telford 's . |
| 3 | The Princesse presided at one end , while Thomas had been placed as guest of honour at the other . |
| 4 | Each team stands at one end of the room , in a line , one behind the other , facing the opposite end . |
| 5 | They need to be 3 feet ( 1 metre ) long and with a sharp point fashioned at one end . |
| 6 | Partly due to this , the long end of the yield curve has been rather stable in the UK , and the need to hedge at this end of the term structure was diminished . |
| 7 | Standard controls are a single wheel on a fixed left-side-only or throw-over yoke pivoting fore-and-aft on a centreline pillar ; but as it is partly intended for training G-DHCB has twin control wheels at either end of a Y-shaped structure . |
| 8 | The T'ang and his father sat at one end of the long , darkwood table , facing each other , while Ben sat alone at the other end . |
| 9 | The woman , tight-lipped , turned her back on them and began to slap the milk vigorously with a peeled wand spiked at one end where smaller branches had been lopped off . |
| 10 | A second option to ease Selborne 's traffic nightmare is the introduction of pinch points at either end of the village , with road humps in between to slow drivers down . |
| 11 | The village green was oval shaped , with the road entering at one end and houses along one side , with a large chateau , a farm and a row of houses on the other side . |
| 12 | The youngsters each could carry one end of a staff with two hives swinging in thick bags in the centre , while Ruari carried a second pole with a skep slung at each end . |
| 13 | The box stands at one end of a parcel of land upon which there is a complete turnout and associated signals . |
| 14 | At the beginning of the 19th century this design was replaced by a convex sauce-boat with a ring handle on the lid , scroll handles at each end and standing in four feet . |
| 15 | The boot comprised a squared box covered in thick leather bound at each end with iron , measuring about two and a half feet in length and four inches square at the ends . |
| 16 | He pulled out an empty pasta box sealed at one end with industrial adhesive tape . |
| 17 | DNA S1 probes were end labelled at one end with T4 polynucleotide kinase ( Boehringer Mannheim ) and γ 32 p-ATP ( 3000 cu/mmole , New England Nuclear ) or fill-in with reverse transcriptase ( Super RT , Anglia-Biotec ) and the appropriate α 32 p-labelled deoxynucleotide triphosphate ( 6000 ci/mmole , New England Nuclear ) . |
| 18 | With a lot at stake for both sides the game began at a frantic pace with a goal arriving at each end in the first ten minutes . |
| 19 | A 150 mm cut off length of 25 mm vanadium steel hacksaw blade sharpened at one end and wrapped in PVC insulating tape at the other makes a very useful scraper . |
| 20 | A warder stood at one end of the infirmary , standing by a thick metal door . |
| 21 | It has been suggested that the prevalent west and south-west winds tend to set up a longshore drift towards Portland , so that the majority of coarse material accumulates at that end . |
| 22 | What we see today are mere shadows of their former selves and I shall be discussing later a number of these — Hull Fair which is now purely a funfair , the revived Masham Sheep Fair , the dying horse fairs at Lee Gap and Boroughbridge , and Yarm which is still proclaimed and has its high street occupied at one end by the showmen and the other by the gipsies . |
| 23 | Er two bedrooms , it was a number sixty six Street in those days , there were new houses built on where it is now , I have n't been into Palfry for years but er there were five houses in the row , there was a family named at one end , there was us my nan of course we were next to , next to us was Mrs , a Mr and Mrs , and then er that was one side of the entry the other side of the entry was a family named , they had quite a large family , there was er two or three of those married Mrs and then er then Mrs they were all relatives , cos there was no such thing as overcrowding in those days you got as many in as you could you see , there was , another was Mr and Mrs she was a daughter of Mrs there was Mrs and Mrs she was another daughter of Mrs , and then er there were , there was a , a young man he was a son of Mrs , the were I think show people originally cos they were a bit anyhow there were five houses down the yard we had n't got running water in the sink , we had a , a big stone pump pipe in at the bottom of the entry we all had to go and draw out our own drinking water from this one standpipe . |
| 24 | They walked up to a large wooden table covered at each end with a pile of books . |