Example sentences of "[vb -s] at the [adj] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | Upper House stands at the southern end of a deep yard , flanked to the east by the barn and to the north by a Norman church . |
| 2 | But before Budd came on , they had to listen to Andy Roberts , who stands at the opposite end of ufology to Hopkins and whose new book , Phantoms Of The Sky ( written with Dave Clarke , published by Robert Hale ) , gave the conference its name . |
| 3 | I know , er , well where the path is , the only problem is where the edge finishes at the other end , at the bottom end , right , there 's gon na be a gap there and I wan na close that gap off somehow . |
| 4 | She lives at the other end , Blackberry Lane , I 'm not sure of the number , but I was told she has a monkey puzzle tree in her front garden . |
| 5 | Hong Kong lies at the southern end of an eroded chain of sedimentary rocks with some granite and volcanic outpourings . |
| 6 | The junction lies at the far end of Junction 6 of the M6 , Gravelly Hill Interchange or Spaghetti Junction , the most complicated motorway interchange in Britain , offering freeflow routes between the M6 , A38M and A5127 and also linking in various local roads . |
| 7 | The second major problem with Comte 's positivism lies at the other end of his hierarchy , at the level of the social . |
| 8 | They have conceded only three goals — all from set-pieces — in opening defeats by Korea ( 0-1 ) and Spain ( 0-2 ) , but the major deficiency lies at the other end of the pitch . |
| 9 | Lido di Camaiore lies at the northern end of Viareggio , next to Marina di Pietrasanta , in the most fashionable part of the Tuscan coast . |
| 10 | The shopping facilities of Beverley are only nine miles to the east and the M62 motorway starts at the western end of the village . |
| 11 | is it at the top end of the , it starts at the top end of the slope ? |
| 12 | ‘ What happens at the other end ? ’ |
| 13 | A second , more troublesome fraction exists at the lowest end of the working class . |
| 14 | but Hans Segers at the other end had a busier first half as United piled forward … |
| 15 | It was a large , old-fashioned nursery-cum-workroom , with piled baskets of wool and two looms at the far end . |
| 16 | A simple way to appreciate what it means is to visualise the Spectra line being passed down a hollow tube ( the ‘ sleeve ’ ) until it appears at the other end . |
| 17 | We now have to pass the wire all the way through the sleeve so that its bend or fold emerges at the other end . |
| 18 | He takes his time strolling over , and when he gets here he sits at the far end of the bench like he does n't know me . |
| 19 | Yes the particular item that was deleted was known as the combat override facility which erm was really a trade off erm to provide extra thrust against the reduced life of the engine and clearly if one operates at the top end of the engine spectrum in er hotter conditions and higher er R P M then clearly the life of the engine will be reduced . |
| 20 | This is illustrated in Fig. 5.12 , which allows for more grid dates at the short end of the maturity spectrum relative to the long end because of the greater difficulty of fitting the yield curve at the short end . |
| 21 | But , I think the major difference between the two comes at the very end of the books . |
| 22 | Mr Hague could usefully ask the same question about the Esk Valley line , part of which runs at the opposite end of his constituency . |
| 23 | The Israeli potash and bromine works at the southern end produce more than a million tonnes of these minerals a year . |