Example sentences of "[v-ing] at the end of " in BNC.
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1 | Finally , the additional time taken to read words occurring at the end of clauses and sentences might reflect the time taken to carry out syntactic processing of that particular clause or sentence . |
2 | A useful starting point is the reference sections appearing at the end of each major entry in The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church already mentioned . |
3 | Letters regularly occur in certain combinations and positions with , for example , the letter Q always being followed by U , and a number of letters rarely appearing at the end of a word ( e.g. , J V ) . |
4 | I agree that the appeal should be allowed and that declarations should be made in the terms appearing at the end of the judgment of Glidewell L.J . |
5 | A boy dangled a paper lantern over the dancers ' heads , a globe of pleated paper with a lit candle inside , bobbing at the end of a pole , a second moon . |
6 | Clients of licensed dealer Prior Harwin , for instance , welched on deals they had agreed on the telephone when the Department of Trade and Industry ( DTI ) stopped the firm from trading at the end of 1986 . |
7 | I want now to turn to some questions of form and genre , trying to identify a particular set of formal and institutional parameters for television , and returning at the end of the essay to questions of value . |
8 | There was a daily requisition to carry troops to the Rossall rifle ranges , leaving between 8–30 and 9–30 and returning at the end of the afternoon . |
9 | Renting out the family home while working abroad on contract may not be particularly appealing ; but selling it and having no stake in the home housing market on returning at the end of the contract is by no means an ideal solution . |
10 | On his doctor 's orders he went up to Leeds and Scarborough in August , returning at the end of September . |
11 | Having set up his kingdom Christ would withdraw to heaven , returning at the end of the thousand years . |
12 | This coincided with the intensification of the pro-natalist campaign , but was probably due to the soldiers returning at the end of the Abyssinian war and the resultant rise in the number of marriages . |
13 | Both groups trained to attend to the sounds of words were significantly better at reading and spelling at the end of the study than the untrained group . |
14 | But that would 've tied in again with , with the beginning because what is affordable erm would he get the benefits that he was wanting at the end of it . |
15 | ‘ The appointment may be terminated by either party on giving three months ' notice in writing expiring at the end of a term or of the long vacation . |
16 | … The appointments may be terminated on either side by three months ' notice in writing expiring at the end of a term or of the long vacation . |
17 | ‘ The appointment may be terminated by either party on giving three months ' notice in writing expiring at the end of a term or of the long vacation . |
18 | You will be required to vacate the land on six months notice expiring at the end of any month . |
19 | But the number of strikes and disturbances grew during the 1870s , peaking at the end of the decade . |
20 | A windfall or an inheritance is not out of the question , and we could be looking at the end of March , May or October-November for a material or financial boost . |
21 | These birds come from America , so they are difficult to get hold of and I had the added problem that I was looking at the end of the breeding season . |
22 | Computing had the third highest percentage in work , but was average in terms on those still looking at the end of their courses . |
23 | They stood smoking at the end of the passage and watched Auriega . |
24 | Most surprising of all , at a quarterly delegate meeting at the end of 1873 , " it was generally held that there could be no reasonable objection to their [ women 's ] employment to a certain extent ; the main point in dispute being , was it right to put a limit on their number and … to what extent and how to apply the rule " . |
25 | But on reflection , a quick little sub-committee meeting at the end of Christmas Day he said well we 've paid it now , but we are in fact , in hand |
26 | Walter Heape , a reader in zoology and an anti-suffragist , writing at the end of the century , exulted in a description of menstruation which wallowed in gore , a picture of devastation , rupture , torn membranes , ‘ from which it would hardly seem possible to heal satisfactorily without the aid of surgical treatment ’ … |
27 | The German biologist August Weismann , writing at the end of the last century , argued that two independent processes of cell division start from the fertilized egg . |
28 | Lord 's secretly warned Surrey in writing at the end of the 1991 season . |
29 | Henry Salt , writing at the end of the nineteenth century when laws protecting animals were firmly in place , complained that , |
30 | Sir William Petty , writing at the end of the seventeenth century , argued that excessive morbidity and mortality rates were not only a human but an economic tragedy . |