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

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1 At one end of the scale the death of a spouse rates 100 points .
2 At the lower end of the scale the items may be far shoddier than even the cheapest village or nomadic rug ; at the higher end , one can find work of the most outstanding calibre and sophistication .
3 At the other end of the scale the ‘ When in Rome do as the Romans ’ is no excuse for dropping to the level of a curse between every other word that is met in some otherwise honest circles .
4 The other end of the scale the erm Sun gets much of its editorial exclusives and material often running to five or six pages erm by covering the Royal Family erm in terms of language in that in the language used , the Sun erm tends to adopt a very simple writing style of one adjective erm sorry one verb and a number of adjectives with a couple of nouns , tends to be sentence went off around ten to twelve words and the design is also quite interesting because they like to sort of leave things out so you have a paragraph in normal type and then a paragraph in bold with big splodges next to it to highlight it .
5 Do n't forget if it 's at the end it 's the end of the word the best guess is usually
6 The commander of a ship , however , had additional perquisites which added to the value of his appointment , for it has been claimed that he could make as much as £1,500 in a single voyage from the fares paid by passengers , while he even had the right to sell for his own profit at the end of the voyage the dunnage , that is the bamboos and rattans employed to keep the cargo from shifting .
7 Unfortunately , at the end of the sixteenth-century the whole façade was remodelled , as was the inside , and the local population was outraged .
8 We are now coming into a situation where at the end of the motorway the three lanes are now running into two purely because of the roadworks on the right of the Uxbridge roundabout .
9 At the end of the session the index had notched up a 25-point gain worth £5bn .
10 By the end of the session the groups had started to map out the areas for questions to be used with the visitors .
11 At the end of the session the PNC elected the PLO 's new executive committee , increasing the number of members from 14 to 18 .
12 ‘ At the end of the session the whole class is debriefed so that important points can be clarified and re-emphasised . ’
13 At the end of the survey the number of registered haemophilic patients was 1818 , and 1584 were tested for HIV antibodies .
14 Towards the end of the campaign the PS changed its tactics and was among the groups which refused to participate in an anti-Le Pen rally in Paris on March 18 .
15 At this end of the village the night had been quiet , but in the Untouchable quarter to the west , there 'd been quite a kerfuffle .
16 Mappleton is at the cliff edge , indeed at the northern end of the village the main road is only 50 metres from the cliff top .
17 A POKE in the eye when referees or fans are not looking , or when the ball 's at the other end of the field the centre-half lays out the centre-forward with a right-hander .
18 At the end of the weekend the whole lot would be dismantled and returned to Durham on a special trailer , ‘ Heaven ’ following behind on its own trailer .
19 At the end of the road the huge bulk of the church with its soaring walls of smoke-blackened brick looked as much out of keeping as it was out of scale with this small domestic self-sufficiency .
20 Towards the end of the Occupation the upstairs room of the Flore resembled a classroom .
21 At the end of the rollout the tailwheel lock was disengaged to allow us to amble back round the peri-track ; thereafter the shutdown followed usual pattern of a cooling-down period , a magneto check and the pulling out of the mixture to full lean .
22 Near the end of the novel the clergyman is left ‘ … in strange Embarrassment , not knowing how to account for a Mind at once so enlighten 'd , and so ridiculous . ’
23 At the eastern end of the Ludwigstrasse the street opened out into a small square below the towering walls of the Herzogschloss , a massive fortification dating from the fifteenth century and set back only a few yards from the Danube .
24 At the end of the mass the Pope 's congratulations and blessing will be read out .
25 But towards the end of the century the ideal began to emerge that not merely the essentials , but also the whole of religion could be discovered by reason , and that nothing ‘ above reason ’ should be a part of it .
26 By the end of the century the advocates of Neo-Malthusianism , as it was called , were aiming to bring child-bearing under control ; life , except in strict Catholic families , was not regarded as the gift of God .
27 By the end of the century the older ways were being overtaken by the American custom . )
28 By the end of the century the Santa Fe and the Southern Pacific had built Spanish-style stations throughout the South , as at San Angelo , Texas ; Riverside , Santa Barbara , Capistrano , and Burlingame , California .
29 By the end of the century the bun had slid to the back of the head , where it appeared as a flatly coiled plait .
30 With oil consumption contracting to one-third of energy requirements by the end of the century the main weight of meeting increased demand will fall on imports of gas and coal and the increase of indigenous energy production through nuclear power .
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