Example sentences of "end [prep] [art] [noun sg] [det] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ That you ’ When the offender is on the other end of a telephone this point is usually difficult to prove .
2 End of a school Many teachers were displaced in the fighting .
3 At the end of a lifetime this was the sum total of her grandfather 's worldly possessions .
4 At the opposite end of the scale all terrestrial sources are feeble .
5 However , at the other end of the scale these relations may complement each other , and thus be used to explain the stability of a particular form of social organisation .
6 At the bottom end of the scale this category could include high salaried officials .
7 ‘ I seem to have got entirely the wrong end of the stick this afternoon , ’ she said sadly .
8 Thatcher scored 8 per cent higher than the other leaders in the Pre-Campaign Wave , but by the end of the campaign all four leaders enjoyed very similar scores .
9 The curtains at either end of the bed each has an embroidered design of a cherubic figure holding a golden trumpet ; each of these can fire off one Wind Blast spell per round .
10 I think this is the idea of the poem though actually when you get to the end of the poem this is what it 's about so it 's a good idea
11 Although by the end of the century all four leading denominations had temperance committees and urged parliamentary action to curb ‘ the trade ’ , Teetotal organizations were confined to the Baptists and Congregationalists .
12 By the end of the century many were moaning that ‘ the pulpit can never again be what it was once — the chief organ of information to the people , the great agent in moulding public thought ’ .
13 By the end of the century many paleontologists supported the theory of orthogenesis , in which variation was supposed to be pushed in some preordained direction by forces built into the constitution of the organisms .
14 The German professor was a powerful figure , hiring and firing his assistants and doing his best to place his favourite students , though by the end of the century this was becoming more difficult .
15 This stripping away of extraneous duties continued under its successor , the College of Foreign Affairs , which began to function in 1719 , and well before the end of the century this process of specialization had been completed .
16 By the end of the century some might still moan that ‘ it would shock many to suggest that a plain dissenting preacher might be as great a man as an Archbishop ’ but this was simply twaddle .
17 By the end of the century some English mathematicians could no longer even understand the work of their predecessors , let alone rival the enormous advances being made in France and Germany .
18 The range of quality from very good to squalid is of significance , because at one end of the range many authorities view mobile homes as being more or less equivalent to permanent dwellings , while some of the poorer , less well serviced , caravans can not be regarded as permanent homes .
19 The three children talked and laughed , and by the end of the afternoon all three were speaking Yorkshire together .
20 By the end of the year all the other masters who had been in the forces had returned , and life was beginning slowly to get back to normal .
21 These points were then totalled and posted up in the staff room , and at the end of the year those at the bottom of the list were dismissed .
22 There was a longer silence from the other end of the phone this time .
23 It had tall dark trees on each side , with rhododendron bushes behind , then at the end of the drive some great big steps and a massive oak front door .
24 in Ludlow , we 've to the er , the Whitchurch initiative , there 's something going on in , in Lud in Ludlow at present which is particularly education , social service linked at , but at the end of the day that 's also about jobs , two jobs of training , and perhaps one of the ways in which we solve er , land issues erm , and , and of course Craven Arms is now , is now coming up in each profile as needing something done , and I 'm also being approached about the East Water Block Coking where there are particular problems in those areas .
25 Completer finishes finishers because at the end of the day that job has got to be finished off .
26 we 're talking about three six are n't you at the end of the day that 's what they 're trying to apply for .
27 At the end of the day that trainee will not get his N V Q and what 's going to happen is that branch managers be penalized if that happens .
28 We have to tackle it in two directions , and I think that education is going to be incredibly important in terms of trying to create a more appropriate atmosphere in the colleges , you know , because at the end of the day that 's where people spend an enormous amount of their time .
29 By the end of the day each of us had our own small nest-egg of vivid memories to take home and treasure .
30 ‘ At the end of the day all of us are in it to sell records .
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