Example sentences of "end [prep] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The primacy of classical studies in their chief base ( Europe ) came to an end about the middle of this century . |
| 2 | Rates of CTT chargeable on the coming to an end of an interest in possession during the lifetime of the beneficiary On a separate matter , it is right that I should inform the Committee , for the avoidance of doubt , that the lower rates of CTT announced by the Chief Secretary on 5th February which would apply to transfers of value occurring during the lifetime of the transferor will also apply where an interest in possession comes to an end during the lifetime of the person beneficially entitled to that interest . |
| 3 | But his death and the mystery surrounding it spelt the end for the Church in which he had worshipped for so long . |
| 4 | The bridge is nearly half a mile long , and incorporates an iron swing bridge at the Barmouth end for the passage of vessels on the navigable channel . |
| 5 | At his press conference on Aug. 22 Gorbachev took a position of continuing support for the CPSU , saying : " I shall fight to the end for the renewal of the party . " |
| 6 | There had been complaints for many years from the canal 's users , fed up with waiting in long queues at one end for the procession of boats to clear from the other ; like sitting at traffic lights that never change to green . |
| 7 | The enlightened Baptist minister Robert Robinson in Cambridge denounced the trade as an encroachment on natural rights and envisaged its end as the result of a general offensive , congenial to Rational Dissenters , making ‘ the natural connection between civil and religious liberty ’ . |
| 8 | A car park security camera captured the tail end of the attack in the centre of Swindon . |
| 9 | At the other end of the scale for maintaining personal space was , ironically , the Open and Welcoming Approach . |
| 10 | At the lower end of the scale for unskilled labour there is now an incentive for those people to do more part-time work . |
| 11 | This pressure is manifest in the gentle coercion of the baby by the parents at one end of the scale to the severe treatment of recalcitrant children and adult criminals at the other . |
| 12 | This continuum stretches from full repetition at one end of the scale to pronominal reference at the other . |
| 13 | It 's the opposite end of the scale to Old Trafford . |
| 14 | Secondly , it almost goes without saying that in real life people will not be presented at the point of sale with a neat , comparative ranking of ( say ) five different credit options , with one end of the scale of choice giving much better value than the other . |
| 15 | Erm it 's the other end of the scale of seeing the way in which individuals erm perceive their role erm in political developments . |
| 16 | He had left her and gone to live with an upper-class woman , had soared to the opposite end of the scale from Josie , whose attraction for him had been that of a splenetic victim from the lower depths of the goyim : but Josie had refused a divorce and the ordeal had dragged on . |
| 17 | At the opposite end of the scale from the phylum is the smallest unit of classification usually used for fossils : the species . |
| 18 | At the opposite end of the scale from the fundamentalists , we have such interesting hypotheses as the one put forward recently drawing attention to the close positive correlation between the susceptibility of groups to extinction and the oxygen consumption level of their modem representatives . |
| 19 | I 'll be at the end of the bar near the t.v and fag machine . |
| 20 | Chap at the far end of the bar in a grey pin-stripe clearly fancied his chances . |
| 21 | Julie used Nigger 's real name in a voice shrill with alarm as several customers in the vicinity moved to the far end of the bar in one fluid movement . |
| 22 | This can be done by slicing off the peel across the top of the orange and using this flat end of the orange as a base . |
| 23 | The hon. Gentleman has got the wrong end of the stick about how they work . |
| 24 | I feel sorry for people that are dumped into a civilisation such as ours and they are taking the sticky end of the stick in these low-rated factories . |
| 25 | So so I I I think Mr Mayor that although this debate has erm raised people 's erm eye a little , I do believe that most of the people here have got the wrong end of the stick in what was being proposed right . |
| 26 | Then there were those brown corduroys and blue jeans : the very seams of his old , faded pants enraptured me , seeming to underscore the seductive outlines of his lower frame , running from the back of his thick leather belt down along that mysterious , rich intercrural channel , and coming out at the other end of the tunnel at the tense crossroads orienting the scrotum 's heavy bag with its blissful raphe , or subtly defining and underlining the inside and outside of the long , smooth thighs and the stocky , bulgy , athletic calves . |
| 27 | Des relaxes his shoulders , and suddenly there 's a roar like a dragon dying , and about twenty visored policemen come backing into the far end of the tunnel under a hail of bricks and missiles from their front . |
| 28 | A LIGHT emerged at the end of the tunnel for Greatham road safety campaigners last week . |
| 29 | The South Devon Railway now has twelve locomotives based on the railway undergoing restoration , including five main line types , so the proverbial light is certainly at the end of the tunnel for their future needs . |
| 30 | This was the end of the tunnel for Baldwin . |