Example sentences of "[noun sg] at the [adj] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Within one hall at Chalton an area of less-worn chalk subsoil at the eastern end near the partition may mark the position of a hearth . |
| 5 | Robyn took a seat at the opposite end of the table from Wilcox . |
| 6 | Cross , 19 , admitted it was a wrench to leave Plymouth for a club at the other end of the country . |
| 7 | To that extent , the EC does not seem to have accepted the ramifications of the post-communist years and has not decided whether it wants to consolidate itself as a rich man 's club at the western end of the continent of Europe , to which the east Europeans can apply for associate membership , or to widen its institutions , starting with freer trade . |
| 8 | The coins , therefore , should give a good indication of examples in circulation at the very end of the fourth century . |
| 9 | Wheelbarrows of mud are carted from one site to help form a containing mound for a pond at the other end . |
| 10 | It smelled of shellfish , newsprint , disinfectant — and the lime-encrusted urinal at the far end . |
| 11 | We 've got a big industrial park at one end and the highways department at the other end of the village so we 're always going to get traffic |
| 12 | On the left a door with a frosted glass panel in it led into Tom Watt 's office , a long narrow north-facing room with a tall sash-window at the far end . |
| 13 | Increased weight at the republican end calls for increased weight at the loyalist end and the rise of Sinn Fein has added to the appeal of Paisley 's political postures . |
| 14 | Increased weight at the republican end calls for increased weight at the loyalist end and the rise of Sinn Fein has added to the appeal of Paisley 's political postures . |
| 15 | An additional irony at the very end of this fabliau resides in the claim that Boivin himself " made " this fabliau , and was paid ten sous by the provost for it . |
| 16 | The intersegmental membrane does not permit diffusion , so that a high concentration at the front end of one segment is maintained close to a low concentration at the back of the segment in front . |
| 17 | The lavatory at the far end of the yard , Victorine told the puzzled children : was the only one in the house when it was first built . |
| 18 | But there was another wheel at the other end and there was a loch that the the f there were hill fields up between . |
| 19 | I have always felt that most of the practical differences between the handling of tailwheel aircraft and those with their third wheel at the wrong end could be covered in a single comprehensive magazine article ( like mine in March Pilot ) , but after reading The Compleat Taildragger Pilot I concede that , if you want to cover all the relevant theory too , something this size is required . |
| 20 | Meeting the coach competition necessitated a more risky strategy : head-on confrontation at the low-price end of the market . |
| 21 | Instinctively she headed for the fence at the far end , wanting to be as far away from the house as possible . |
| 22 | Our journey was to take us from one end of the village to the Bar-Tabac at the other end , a trip of some 200 metres down the straight street that led to the plump , vine-studded hills in the distance . |
| 23 | In England pop culture has a simultaneous function — inextricably intertwined to a degree unmatched anywhere else in the world of exploitation and expression : exploitation as the product of an industry at the sharp end of the new conditions of capitalism , expression by virtue of its position — which has occurred by default — as the main area of activity in our society which freely admits voices of both youth and change . |
| 24 | He had emerged into another pool of dim light at the far end of the corridor . |
| 25 | He knelt there in the darkness , listening to the sounds of the subsiding passion in the room below , then swivelled silently and with even greater care than before , and feeling far more sober , moved back towards the thin , escaping light at the far end of the chill , cramped roof space . |
| 26 | On the cylindrical AA and C types of batteries , the small terminal at the top end is positive while the whole of the base is negative . |
| 27 | In Chapters 5 and 6 we counted only those paths which spanned the entire utterance , anchoring the beginning of the search at the left-hand end and ignoring all paths that failed to match through to the right-hand end . |
| 28 | It was difficult for Charity to make sense of the emotional jumble at the other end . |
| 29 | There is a tunnel , through the rock at the eastern end of the sea front , which leads to a small harbour . |
| 30 | He led her through an archway at the far end of the hall . |