Example sentences of "be [verb] at [adj] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | c Models i General Hospitals Theoretically , general hospital services are unsegregated , but there is often " segregation by stealth " in that dementing patients ( often 10–20% of residents ) are placed at one end of the ward , or in single rooms . |
| 2 | Access into the high rack area is normally restricted to the high lift trucks and all other personnel are excluded — except for occasional maintenance and monitoring checks when moveable barriers are erected at each end of the aisle to prevent such entry . |
| 3 | When the great pile of boots had been collected at one end of the carriage , he spoke again : |
| 4 | Now we have two wonderful sightscreens , and to make matters worse they have been positioned at either end of the ground . |
| 5 | If we aggregate together everyone in that ‘ dependent ’ age group , i.e. , those below the age of 16 and above pensionable ages remembering the heaviest demands on services are made at each end of the age range , the percentage of dependants to total UK population has indeed remained remarkably stable throughout this century — 30 per cent in 1901 , 36 per cent in 1951 , 41 per cent in 1977 — and it is likely to remain so for the remainder of the century ; it is projected to be 40 per cent in 2001 ( Grundy , 1986 , p. 21 ; table 5.4 ) . |
| 6 | Single poles are used at either end to convert the Tube into a high profile bivi tent . |
| 7 | Enthusiasts aged 11 and over can be introduced to Superghosts , in which letters can be added at either end of the word . |
| 8 | When the best signal is obtained , the optical fibre could be secured at each end using PVC tape . |
| 9 | But what we had in mind in looking at this through the the local plan was that er we 'd be looking at specific end users to see what the benefits were of those those end users and to assess those benefits against any environmental harm that there would be and strategy as a whole . |
| 10 | Advertisements may be found at either end of a book , but occur much more often at the back . |
| 11 | Once the connection is made ( and it must be said at this point that the parallel connection is far and away the faster of the two possibles ) a program rejoicing in the highly descriptive name of ‘ FX ’ must be run at either end of the link . |
| 12 | It may be possible to prepare the pit with a sloping bottom so that deeper holes can be dug at one end , leading to comparisons being made . |
| 13 | To illustrate the point further , some bridges are fixed at one end , but rest upon rollers at the opposite end , to allow for expansion . |
| 14 | The battery connections are reversed at one end of the circuit , so that each recorder can operate when the station is transmitting . |
| 15 | Bells were rung at either end of a conversation to signal the beginning and end of the call . |
| 16 | Toll houses were positioned at either end and tolls continued to be collected until 1873 . |
| 17 | The platform steps were of the fixed type and roller blind destination boxes were mounted at each end above the upper deck rails . |
| 18 | Such a gradient would arise if a substance were synthesized at one end , or along one edge , of a region , and destroyed at the other . |
| 19 | Many medieval farms in Wales consisted of only one main building , the so called ‘ longhouse ’ : farm animals were kept at one end of the house and the people lived at the other . |
| 20 | The village is punctuated at each end by the tower of a windmill . |
| 21 | The elongated body of the scorpion is armed at one end with two powerful claws and at the other with a long tail terminating in a sting . |
| 22 | The other is tapered at one end at the bottom , and it 's about the size of a tennis ball . |
| 23 | There is also more overlapping , of a kind which insists on the notion of depth : a despairing woman on the far side of the statue from which the lesser Ajax is about to drag Cassandra to rape her ; hidden faces ( Priam 's and Aeneas 's — he is shown at one end , escaping with his father and son ) . |
| 24 | In simpler creatures , granules of it are distributed evenly throughout the egg ; in a frog 's egg , it is concentrated at one end ; and in a bird 's egg it initially fills the greater part of the shell . |
| 25 | Built around two , 200-metre-long concrete pontoons , it is linked at one end and has a floating gate at the other which closes when a submarine is inside . |
| 26 | This bar is clamped at one end and the other end is then broken off by means of a heavy hammer in the form of a pendulum . |
| 27 | The rotor elements are fabricated as a single unit ( " rotor " ) , which is supported at each end of the machine by bearings and includes a projecting shaft for the connection of external loads , as shown in Fig.1.3(a) . |
| 28 | Carve one half so that it is mounded at one end and tapering at the other , to form the lid ( see illustration ) . |
| 29 | The small circular bow is for suspension from a chain while the narrow square-sectioned shank is notched at each end and has a large incised ‘ X ’ on one side . |
| 30 | Beneath the bow is a rectangular pedestal decorated with grooves , and the shank is notched at each end . |