Example sentences of "end [prep] the [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end of the Ordovician they had already radiated into many of the niches they occupy today . |
| 2 | HOWEVER , HIS SINGING CAREER STARTED in , of all places , the pop charts : ‘ I was sixteen years old at the time , and at the end of the sixties it seemed just the thing to do . |
| 3 | Both the new leader and the modernisation programme had previously been on the political scene , but at the end of the 1970s they appeared to be in a much stronger position than ever before . |
| 4 | By the end of the 1970s it was possible to find a Soviet historian proclaim that ‘ It is precisely through controversy that the truth emerges . ’ |
| 5 | What is certain , however , is that around the tail end of the '80s he met fellow Skin victim Jarboe , signed their other band Swans to a disastrous one-album major deal and cheered up . |
| 6 | What is certain , however , is that around the tail end of the '80s he met fellow Skin victim Jarboe , signed their other band Swans to a disastrous one-album major deal and cheered up . |
| 7 | By the end of the 1980s they held more than half the total issued British government stock , and about 54% of UK equities . |
| 8 | And so it has gone on , although by the end of the 1980s it was evident that the patience of even a government as dedicated to the eventual triumph of nuclear power as Mrs Thatcher 's was showing signs of severe strain . |
| 9 | By the end of the 1980s it was about 350 ppm . |
| 10 | By the end of the 1980s it was nonetheless possible to say that the USSR was more directly involved in the affairs of the world community than at any previous time in her history , not only at a formal intergovernmental level but also through a variety of personal , commercial , sporting , scientific and other channels . |
| 11 | At present we do n't know the exact details of how it works , but towards the end of the 1980s it became apparent that once that signal does get to the nucleus , what happens next in any process of cell plasticity and growth — a step first detected in rapidly dividing cancerous cells , but soon recognized to be a rather universal mechanism — is the activation of a group of ‘ immediate early genes ’ . |
| 12 | By the end of the 1980s it was clear that many UK banks were overexposed to overseas lending risks , especially in less developed countries ( LDCs ) . |
| 13 | The second of these two factors is likely to be the more important constraint in the long run , for even at the end of the 1980s it is rare to find a graduate in geography who is first of all aware of the wide-ranging scope of the subject and secondly is familiar with the operations capable of being performed by a modern computer system . |
| 14 | During the show trials at the end of the 1940s she had been imprisoned pour encourager les autres , though she had no political associations . |
| 15 | Towards the end of the 1870s they did gradually become more outspoken in pressing the case for tariff protection and against any legislation which would interfere with their rights as employers . |
| 16 | By the end of the Eighties he was the youngest captain in the crack Guards Regiment Feliks Dzerzhinsky . |
| 17 | So a number of theories of perception erm came on to the market as a response to the work of people like in the fifties and towards the end of the fifties we started to get theories of perception which were based on feature detectors . |
| 18 | The experiment worked and by 1954 Raitz 's Horizon Holidays had taken off and by the end of the fifties he was offering holidays on the Costa Brava , the Costa del Sol , in Portugal , Minorca and Tangiers . |