Example sentences of "end [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | None was so sweet ( without being cloying ) as that burst of theatrical sunshine at the Comedy Theatre in the West End during a fatal summer heatwave which put paid to the show 's box office takings as well as Warren 's plucky managerial debut . |
| 2 | When I first moved to Hackney in London 's East End as a medical student in 1971 I saw the graffito : ‘ HACKNEY — AN ASYLUM WITHOUT WALLS ’ . |
| 3 | Daphne Rye , the top casting director , looked after him following his demob and in 1948 ushered him into the West End in a literary play — from a book by Elizabeth Bowen — Castle Anna , which Daphne herself directed . |
| 4 | World War II ends for a small town in eastern Germany |
| 5 | Upright at opposite ends of a turbulent field , |
| 6 | ‘ Then impulse and power should be given to the intellect , and the ends of a moral being be exhibited . |
| 7 | In this test a load is applied to the two ends of a long bar of uniform cross-section and either the displacement of the ends or that of two fiducial marks on the surface of the bar observed as a function of the applied load . |
| 8 | Poolewe and Dundonnell are at the ends of a classic walk of nearly thirty miles crossing this wilderness and , because of the rigours of the journey , calling for careful advance planning . |
| 9 | What the murders did reflect in an odd way was the convulsing extremism — at both ends of a polarized spectrum — that existed between right and left , counter-culture and establishment , in 1969 , when Easy Rider was released . |
| 10 | Both in psychology and in society at large , masculinity and femininity have long been conceptualised as bipolar ends of a single continuum . |
| 11 | Numbers 11 ends with a fearful seriousness . |
| 12 | after which the narrative ends with a concluding flourish : The only real parallels to this tale in continental literature come from Italy ; in the first and second tales on Day Eight in Boccaccio 's Decameron and in one of the novelle of Giovanni Sercambi . |
| 13 | Sweeter than some , softening the fieriness of the spirit ; ends on a refreshing note . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's enough to make one feel one should go into the West End to a Heavy Metal disco or something . ’ |
| 15 | It was a bad end for a great king . |
| 16 | Not the usual end for a powerful London merchant ! |
| 17 | The Scottish women 's team led from the opening end for a comfortable victory over the defending champions . |
| 18 | The castle 's end as a noble residence finally came in the late 17th century , and it was eventually given into state care in 1935 . |
| 19 | The demonstrations came temporarily to an end after a personal appeal by Gorbachev on 26 February , but a report that two Azerbaijanis had been killed the previous week led to an anti-Armenian riot on 28–29 February in the oil town of Sumgait in which 32 people were killed and 197 were injured , including more than 100 police officers . |
| 20 | I felt so depressed at the end despite a good run . |
| 21 | By the time he had got to suggesting that 126 card-carrying Communists were on the staff of the New York Times Sunday supplement , Matusow 's credibility was fraying , and , in 1956 , after a series of volte-faces he found himself on the wrong end of a five-year sentence for perjury . |
| 22 | Prime Minister Ivars Godmanis and all but one of his ministers won the support of the Supreme Council in votes of no confidence held on Oct. 21 at the end of a three-week debate . |
| 23 | Philip Ettinger , 37 , the brains behind the bid to launch the link , today revealed the new move which coincides with the end of a three-week consultation period when objections to his proposals must be lodged . |
| 24 | Ask your local delicatessen to keep the end of a new Parma ham for you , or put in a bid for the unsliceable knuckle end . |
| 25 | I ca n't recall , before , having had to peep through my fingers at Coronation Street as I did on Wednesday when Carmel , at the end of a riveting confrontation with Gail , plummeted down the stairs . |
| 26 | This might seem like the end of a successful story , but far from it ! |
| 27 | When my colliery closes it will be the end of a forward-producing era . ’ |
| 28 | On June 27 , 1990 , at the end of a 16-day trial , he was sentenced to five years ' imprisonment for breaking foreign trade laws , for not declaring income liable to taxes DM16,000,000 , and for playing a " decisive role " in the planning and construction of the Rabta complex [ for attempted suicide of managing director of Imhausen-Chemie in February 1989 see p. 36477 ] . |
| 29 | The eggshell-blue sky — the colour of the end of a perfect day . |
| 30 | It was wonderful skiing on this warm , sunny day amongst the crevasses and ice cliffs , then onto the classic Vallee Blanche run at the end of a perfect day . |