Example sentences of "end [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This trade came to an end during the fifteenth century . |
| 2 | We have now finished coaling at Chapmans Well , but had to wait right to the very end for the best coal . |
| 3 | Two years after the photograph had been taken Nasser came to power in a nationalist revolution which signalled the end for the European community in Alexandria , as it did for European domination of Egyptian affairs . |
| 4 | It was found by some local horsemen and this was the beginning of the end for the murderous publican . |
| 5 | The first or basic text is this , sung by Bilbo as he leaves Bag End for the last time : |
| 6 | Each one provides the balance at the year end for the defined area . |
| 7 | It was answered at the other end after the first ring by a friendly , but formal , female voice . |
| 8 | Number the carbon atoms from the end nearest the double bond . |
| 9 | Low-cost endowment business through independent financial advisers , building society connections and estate agents was up by 21% at the year end despite the reduced level of UK mortgage lending . |
| 10 | The article as a whole is strangely lopsided but seems to follow on from the logic of this position , embodying the agreement made between clergy and politicians towards the end of the nineteenth century outlined in Chapter 3 . |
| 11 | So extensive became the control of the catholic sector , both primary and secondary , that priests had extensive powers of dismissal over the teachers until the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 12 | Sir : The doctor 's plate offering two grades of medical advice ( letter , 4 October ) goes back to the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 13 | As late as the end of the nineteenth century in some Western European states local politics retained their dominance over central concerns , until markets , jobs , and communications like the railways became part of a national whole . |
| 14 | The pattern of industrial organization prevailing in Britain at the end of the nineteenth century made it inevitable that Britain 's pioneer filmmakers would quickly find themselves crowded off the world 's screens . |
| 15 | Almost to the end of the nineteenth century , even educated men made no distinction between the merciful hand of God and the merciless grasp of death . |
| 16 | Towards the end of the nineteenth century this belief began to impress itself upon a few mature minds that were open to a concept of childhood quite different from that of an earlier age , when children tended to be regarded as nothing better than undeveloped adults . |
| 17 | This is not to say that removal of the clitoris was a routine operation either in the States or in Europe at the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 18 | Although they were not avowedly political , they did make political pronouncements and had a ‘ privilege of approaching the Throne ’ which , by the end of the nineteenth century , had lapsed through disuse . |
| 19 | A second body was the Protestant Dissenting Deputies which had been founded in 1732 and was , by the end of the nineteenth century , healthier than its older friend although The Christian World noted in 1901 that it ‘ seems to have fallen on evil days ’ . |
| 20 | However , as we have noted before , by the end of the nineteenth century Englishmen began to worry about American competition , especially in cheaper means of manufacture . |
| 21 | At the tail end of the nineteenth century , the Viennese politician Karl Lueger founded his power base on an anti-semitic platform . |
| 22 | Suburban residential development in Chiswick had already become noticeable by the end of the nineteenth century with Back Common load and the adjoining Bond Street , Holly Road , Clifton Gardens , Belmont Road and Grove on the north side of Chiswick high Road , and with Devonshire Road , Linden Gardens and Bolton Gardens — later renamed Duke Road-on the south side , and a few houses in Dukes Avenue , opposite to the end of Barrowgate Road , which itself had a number of houses , mostly at the Sutton Lane end , close to Dead Donkey Lane . |
| 23 | Towards the end of the nineteenth century , it was acquired by Colonel R. W. Shipway , J.P.-the donor of Hogarth House to the public — but in 1928 it was demolished . |
| 24 | Towards the end of the nineteenth century both the Foxton and the Watford lock flights were getting into a series state of disrepair and were leaking badly . |
| 25 | At the end of the nineteenth century , the editors thought Leapor worth an article in the Dictionary of National Biography [ DNB , 11 , 766 ] . |
| 26 | The familiar instrument in common clinical use depends on measuring the pressure which checks the flow of blood in an artery , and was introduced at the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 27 | Arsenic compounds were introduced towards the end of the nineteenth century , but it was the introduction of arsphenamine , or salvarsan , in the early twentieth century that produced the first really viable alternative to mercury . |
| 28 | There are larger fish , particularly in Loch Rannoch , and since the end of the nineteenth century there are records of huge trout being caught , fish of up to 22lb ; most seasons Rannoch still produces the odd monster . |
| 29 | Too many Cooks did not spoil the travellers ' broth and by the end of the nineteenth century Cooks had offices across Europe and America , Australia and New Zealand , Canada , the Middle East and India . |
| 30 | Embryology proper really began a century later with Aristotle defining a basic question which was to dominate the field until the end of the nineteenth century . |