Example sentences of "be [verb] at [num] 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 | When the great pile of boots had been collected at one end of the carriage , he spoke again : |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | To illustrate the point further , some bridges are fixed at one end , but rest upon rollers at the opposite end , to allow for expansion . |
| 5 | The battery connections are reversed at one end of the circuit , so that each recorder can operate when the station is transmitting . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The other is tapered at one end at the bottom , and it 's about the size of a tennis ball . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Carve one half so that it is mounded at one end and tapering at the other , to form the lid ( see illustration ) . |
| 15 | The square law of force means that both alternating and direct currents are registered but there is an essentially square-law scale which is cramped at one end . |
| 16 | The species has an elongated form , which is extended at one end into a shovel-like tongue ; fine concentric ribs are nearly parallel to its margin . |
| 17 | The heads form a cap which covers the shoulder joint , and they are attached at one end to the upper arm and at the other end to 3 points to the front , top and back of the shoulder . |
| 18 | At the 1843 Convention Haydon 's picture was hung at one end of the room ; above the chairman was a portrait of Clarkson and opposite it ‘ A Scene on the African Coast ’ . |
| 19 | A fountain system was uncovered at one end of the dining room , which gives onto the swimming pool , together with a room with a hot bath adjoining . |
| 20 | One way would be to have a chemical whose concentration was fixed at one end of the line , and this concentration decreased as one moved down the line . |
| 21 | George was sitting at one end of a vast empty dining table , with a little oasis of bottles , coffee pot and cheeseboard at his elbow . |
| 22 | Fraulein Winkelmann was sitting at one end of a small kitchen table , separated from a big colour set at the other end by a cup of coffee and a plate of cream cakes . |
| 23 | Rodney was standing at one end of the table , a turquoise can in his hand . |