Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] the [adj] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's worth reading a bit about the technical end of it too . |
| 2 | So far though it has not been a problem raising money for the sharp end of mountain rescue — for new ropes or new vehicles and the like . |
| 3 | The danger of a break through the northern end of the spit was so apparent that a sea wall was built along this section in 1890 . |
| 4 | Catholics and evangelicals indeed had much in common in regarding spiritual regeneration as the true end of philanthropy . |
| 5 | Manhattan-based Billy , at No 39 in the charts with All Shook Up , is trying to raise cash to stop the closure of The Bitter End , which featured legends like Bob Dylan and Stevie Wonder . |
| 6 | BEFORE RETURNING TO THE MUSIC , LET'S take time out to talk about the sound : does Denon 's painstaking work with these Savoy masters really represent an audible improvement or does it mean — as with some historic classical recordings that have been treated to ‘ NoNOISE ’ or ‘ Cedar ’ — merely reduced surface noise at the expense of the loss of the top end ( important ambient noise , feathery cymbals etc. ) and a tubby overall sound ? |
| 7 | The contributions payable are significant financial burdens , particularly for an applicant towards the top end of the financial eligibility range , and probably lead to rejection of the offered certificate by a number of applicants who can not afford the contribution . |
| 8 | It is on the way to being as reasonable as refusing to say about the see-saw that one end 's going down is the effect of the other end 's going up . |
| 9 | The impetus for arms control agreements had been boosted by the US-Soviet summit meeting on May 31-June 3 [ see pp. 37518-19 ] , while both alliances had simultaneously been discussing their possible transformation in the light of the acknowledged end of the Cold War , the Warsaw Pact at its June 7 summit meeting [ see p. 37550 ] and the NATO Foreign Ministers at their June 7-8 meeting in Turnberry in Scotland [ the July news digest ] . |
| 10 | Parsons ( 1914 ) , in a study of English femora , found the vertical diameter of the femoral head and the bicondylar width of the distal end to be the most reliable sexing dimensions . |
| 11 | The tyre keeps spinning , the revs remain skyward as Doohan shifts up a gear with the rear end still well out of line . |
| 12 | Motility of the ileal segment was measured by inserting a multilumen manometry catheter into the proximal end of the ileal segment . |
| 13 | Cos they were replacing it with a radial , they 're transferred that stock onto the other end product number . |
| 14 | Her voice came out of the dingy light in the far end of the room to where she had retreated again and Rosen had not dared look while delivering this speech . |
| 15 | A lane branches south-west from the top end of the buildings and at a right-angled corner turns away as a footpath to Clapham . |
| 16 | What I 've never seen , is a photograph from the other end . |
| 17 | A rough lane goes downriver from the bottom end of the street in Keld and this soon develops into a lovely path amongst trees from which Kisdon Force is reached by a shod detour . |
| 18 | To be realised they must be pursued with savage singlemindedness until the bitter end . |
| 19 | Whitehead Mann has built up an enviable concentration in the top end of the market , attracting some particularly senior and thus highly remunerative assignments . |
| 20 | He went on going through the motions of being a poet until the very end , and inevitably , because he kept in practice , hit upon some successes — ‘ gleams like the flashing of a shield ’ occur in unexpected places . |
| 21 | Some of their ideas were shown to work ; the counter-inflation programme ( or at least that part of it which closed the inflationary gap from the fiscal end ) was worked out by them and was a successful contrast to the experience of World War I. Yet by itself the explanation is inadequate . |
| 22 | Gilts had a ‘ deadly dull ’ session , according to one trader , with most action in the short end of the market . |
| 23 | Stanley kept in contention in the first half of the game but came to grief on the 11th end when they dropped a five . |
| 24 | We put on a display of marching or and er weaponry we 'd got in King George 's playing fields and er talk about the weapons er er er br brings to mind we had a , a weapon that was a anti-tank weapon and it was a Robin Robinson Heath er contraption made up of a tube , cast iron tube on a three legged tripod with er a hinge ring on the one end which had a recess for a cap and a trigger to , to fire this cap . |
| 25 | A flexible ring on the open end stays outside the body and covers the labia . |
| 26 | But in good conditions , once you reach the summit cairn of Bleaklow Head , the highpoint on the western end of the Bleaklow ridge , the section across the drab peaty wilderness towards Alport Low can be quite enjoyable — if you pick a good line . |
| 27 | At Joppa he embarked on a boat to the farthest end of the known world : Tarshish , in Spain . |
| 28 | You lose the parcel but it 's end up for example in the , they used a contractor at the other end because we lost the parcel but they 're not responsible for that . |
| 29 | Quietly , Connor crossed the room , opening the door cautiously so as not to waken his parents in the big bedroom at the other end of the landing . |
| 30 | He 's a good man in a crisis having experienced just about all his football at the rough end of the stick and he 'll be prepared to battle — it just depends on whether the directors battle with him . |