Example sentences of "end [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a bad end for a great king . |
| 2 | The Scottish women 's team led from the opening end for a comfortable victory over the defending champions . |
| 3 | The castle 's end as a noble residence finally came in the late 17th century , and it was eventually given into state care in 1935 . |
| 4 | The demonstrations came temporarily to an end after a personal appeal by Gorbachev on 26 February , but a report that two Azerbaijanis had been killed the previous week led to an anti-Armenian riot on 28–29 February in the oil town of Sumgait in which 32 people were killed and 197 were injured , including more than 100 police officers . |
| 5 | I felt so depressed at the end despite a good run . |
| 6 | By the time he had got to suggesting that 126 card-carrying Communists were on the staff of the New York Times Sunday supplement , Matusow 's credibility was fraying , and , in 1956 , after a series of volte-faces he found himself on the wrong end of a five-year sentence for perjury . |
| 7 | Prime Minister Ivars Godmanis and all but one of his ministers won the support of the Supreme Council in votes of no confidence held on Oct. 21 at the end of a three-week debate . |
| 8 | Philip Ettinger , 37 , the brains behind the bid to launch the link , today revealed the new move which coincides with the end of a three-week consultation period when objections to his proposals must be lodged . |
| 9 | Ask your local delicatessen to keep the end of a new Parma ham for you , or put in a bid for the unsliceable knuckle end . |
| 10 | " All sectors of the economy must be held accountable for the environmental consequences of their activities … " said environment ministers at the end of a two day meeting , in Paris , of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) . |
| 11 | Her qualification comes at the end of a two year distance learning course , during which time Irene had to attend Robert Gordon 's University for five days every three months , complete and pass six modules as well as writing a 10,000 word research based dissertation . |
| 12 | An unskilled man taken on in such a partnership , might easily find himself with the smallest share on reckoning day , which was usually at the end of a two month term . |
| 13 | The bill , which makes it an offence to carry a knife and puts the onus on the carrier to prove he had good reason to carry the knife , will have its third reading on Friday and could now become law before summer after the Scottish Office accepted a Labour amendment that the act should come into force on the day it is passed rather than at the end of a two month period . |
| 14 | I ca n't recall , before , having had to peep through my fingers at Coronation Street as I did on Wednesday when Carmel , at the end of a riveting confrontation with Gail , plummeted down the stairs . |
| 15 | This might seem like the end of a successful story , but far from it ! |
| 16 | When my colliery closes it will be the end of a forward-producing era . ’ |
| 17 | On June 27 , 1990 , at the end of a 16-day trial , he was sentenced to five years ' imprisonment for breaking foreign trade laws , for not declaring income liable to taxes DM16,000,000 , and for playing a " decisive role " in the planning and construction of the Rabta complex [ for attempted suicide of managing director of Imhausen-Chemie in February 1989 see p. 36477 ] . |
| 18 | The eggshell-blue sky — the colour of the end of a perfect day . |
| 19 | It was wonderful skiing on this warm , sunny day amongst the crevasses and ice cliffs , then onto the classic Vallee Blanche run at the end of a perfect day . |
| 20 | ‘ Here I am facing Liverpool in my first game as a fully-fledged Coventry player , so if I can put one over them , it will be the end of a perfect week . ’ |
| 21 | Her most beguiling quality was her air of dreamy detachment ; she liked being kissed , and kissed them back with mobile lips and a tantalisingly timid tongue , but at the end of a hectic hour of necking , when her partner would be scarlet-faced , sore-lipped and aching with frustrated desire , she was maddeningly serene . |
| 22 | But the other British hope , Port Talbot 's John Price , was on the receiving end of a similar scoreline from Brisbane 's Rob Parrella . |
| 23 | ‘ Whatever happens , we will be involved in the scenario until the end of a momentous season . |
| 24 | The dead man was taken at the end of a winding procession , with one man from every house in the village barefoot and carrying a log for the pyre . |
| 25 | At the end of a four-year-long tour this week the 46-year-old told a New York audience it could be her ‘ last live show ever ’ . |
| 26 | He was brought off before the end of a rare defeat and the emotional scars were apparent for weeks after that . |
| 27 | Eventually , in January 1981 , the remaining 52 hostages were freed when $7.9 billion worth of frozen Iranian assets were returned marking the end of a humiliating experience for the world 's wealthiest and apparently most powerful nation . |
| 28 | Many subjects are still examined by a single pass-or-fail hurdle at the end of a two-year course , and the failure rate is around 30 per cent . |
| 29 | And in 1959 , Suffolk welcomed the end of a 57 day drought . |
| 30 | However , it is not the propriety of marriage itself they question — this remains the inevitable end of a young woman 's life ; the issue is what kind of marriage they should aspire to . |