Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] at the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | Helen leaves for Chile at the end of September 1994 to help local projects in the country including an orphanage and other community projects and will not return to Britain until a few days before Christmas . |
| 2 | The opportunity to move into the LNG market was one of the principal reasons behind LASMO 's acquisition of Ultramar at the end of 1991 . |
| 3 | Shortly after the Soviet Union 's invasion of Afghanistan at the end of 1979 , the Western alliance decided to deploy new intermediate range nuclear missiles in Europe . |
| 4 | He , we know , was employed by the young democracy of Athens at the end of the century to make bronze statues of the Tyrannicides two aristocrats who had failed in an attempt on the life of Hippias but killed his brother Hipparchos . |
| 5 | Either the Psalm gives a very different version of the events of 167 or it refers to some other trouble which has left no trace in our tradition , for instance during the wars of the successors of Alexander at the end of the fourth century . |
| 6 | The Barbarians are to break new ground when they embark on a three-match tour of Russia at the end of May — playing in St. Petersburg , Krasnoyarsk and Moscow . |
| 7 | Young Marcel Pagnol and his mother as portrayed in My Father 's Glory , a story drawing on the novelist 's childhood memories of Provence at the end of the last century |
| 8 | The change is slow — between the work of Kinsey at the end of the 19405 and my own in 1974–75 there is no marked contradiction and subsequent studies have not revealed great differences — but it is steady . |
| 9 | In 1691 Martin sold a house in La Couture , which he had inherited from his father in ] 689 , to his brother-in-law Louis Hotteterre , ‘ player of hautboys and other instruments living in the said city of Paris at the end of the Pont Marie Therese ’ ( document 4 ) . |
| 10 | Both resisted the Shahs decrees , and the clerics encouraged protests riots in the holy city of Qom at the end of 1962 and more serious riots in Teheran in June 1963 . |
| 11 | Abul Ahsan ( a member of the Bangladesh foreign service ) completed his tenure as the first Secretary-General of SAARC at the end of October 1989 ; his successor , K. K. Bhargava ( India ) , took up the post at the Secretariat in Kathmandu , the capital of Nepal . |
| 12 | The breaking of the Host , the round wafer of bread signifying the body of Christ at the end of the canon of the Mass after the consecration , pointed to the continual enactment of the Passion linking Christ 's body broken by the actions of sin at the Crucifixion with the divided community ; but simultaneously revealing the means by which the divisions are healed since , precisely because of its breaking , the Host is the shared bread of life . |
| 13 | Henry , count of Champagne and king of Jerusalem at the end of the twelfth century , had been twice betrothed before he won the heiress of Jerusalem : once , when he was five or six , to a lady of two , later on to her younger sister . |
| 14 | She was postmistress of Oxford at the end of her life . |
| 15 | Ruritania and its dynastic problems remain separate from the complexities of Europe at the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 16 | JF mentioned slow rate of working of BG-BASE at the end of the network . |
| 17 | Sociologically the difference between working and middle classes was that between servant-keepers and potential servants , and was so used in Seebohm Rowntree 's pioneer social survey of York at the end of the century . |
| 18 | This was no more evident than on the Isle of Wight at the end of 1989 , which seemed to be going backwards despite getting new stock . |
| 19 | On one such incident I was in command of Venturous patrolling in the Straits of Dover at the end of a very busy Bank Holiday , during which we had followed a suspect yacht from just outside Calais , and handed her over to our special unit in Dover . |
| 20 | Although Byzantium made some inroads in Dalmatia during the next two centuries , the issue was finally settled in favour of Rome at the end of the ninth century by the Croatian prince Branimir ( 879–92 ) . |
| 21 | Episcopal persecution , however , drove them to flee to the relative anonymity of London at the end of the 1620s . |
| 22 | Losses on the Commercial Property account in connection with the Perth floods amounted to $10m in the first quarter and the terrorist explosion in the City of London at the end of April cost an estimated $10m net , excluding the reinstatement premium . |
| 23 | She pointed one foot forward , then the other , changing back and forth like Columbine at the ends of a puppet master 's fingers . |
| 24 | Romania 's entry into the war against Austria at the end of August served only to lengthen Russia 's frontier , laying her open to further attack when Romania collapsed in December 1916 . |
| 25 | A senior officer , when employed , was able to place young men in the line of command by securing their entry as midshipmen , an appointment which became increasingly in demand with the expansion of the navy during the wars against France at the end of the eighteenth and opening of the nineteenth centuries . |
| 26 | The Scottish Select for tomorrow 's match includes Carol Maclean ( Livingston ) and Debbie Strang ( Glasgow City Brightsiders ) , both of whom are also in the national squad preparing for internationals against Wales at the end of March and the Home Countries Championship in Glasgow in April . |
| 27 | There are plenty of eye witnesses to testify to the fact that the Koenigs Collection of 526 Old Master drawings ended up in the Pushkin Museum of Art , Moscow , after being removed from Schloss Pillnitz near Berlin at the end of the war . |
| 28 | But opposing them were associates of a group calling itself ‘ Fight for Freedom ’ , who felt that it would be necessary to deal harshly with Germany at the end of the war . |
| 29 | So when Summerchild steps out up Whitehall at the end of the day he is still hugging their secret madness to himself . |
| 30 | Afghan neutrality was openly discounted in Moscow following the entry of Soviet troops into Afghanistan at the end of 1979 . |