Example sentences of "end of a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of a caution period ( ie , a period of brief interruption in the race ) , Mr Mansell was a fraction of a second too slow to respond to the green flag restart . |
| 2 | At the end of a year Gabriel went to visit the eldest brother . |
| 3 | It is traditional to find a chapter on defences at the end of a tort textbook . |
| 4 | So what 's the worst I can get , at the end of a telephone session , the worst is that I 'll end up with three appointments . |
| 5 | Erm it can hear from the other side of the of Mike 's living room it can hear the person on the other end of a telephone connection which is is is is |
| 6 | He 'd put one end of a scaffold board through the bathroom window , and , as he snatched it out , had knocked two tiles off the opposite wall , which shattered when they hit the floor . |
| 7 | nobody 's going to be prancing around like Noel Coward at the end of a ski day |
| 8 | Legal aid was provided for more than 337,000 people last year , including many who found themselves on the receiving end of a court action . |
| 9 | Ideally mobile units of 100 or 200 bird houses are preferable if it is possible to either move regularly , or at the end of a laying period on to new pasture . |
| 10 | The end of a procedure definition is indicated by the keyword " ENDPROC " . |
| 11 | Offices can be refreshing , stimulating places to work , or they can add greatly to the tiredness you will feel at the end of a working day . |
| 12 | Having arrived home at the end of a working day , tired and hungry , this is not the best moment to concentrate on conversation . |
| 13 | I 've always wanted to get as stoned as quickly as possible to enjoy the evening at the end of a working day . |
| 14 | ( Previous page ) The epitome of joy for a tame elephant — water , and plenty of it , at the end of a working day . |
| 15 | Others may find the part time or flexible hours the main incentive , or be at the beginning or end of a working life . |
| 16 | You can not guarantee that an editor will read to the end of a press release . |
| 17 | If this is not possible , saw off the end of a cap iron . |
| 18 | He was perched precariously on the very edge of the precipice waiting for puffins to fly past , and when one came within reach he swung his long-handled fleygastong ( which is like a landing-net on the end of a four-metre pole ) to intercept the bird . |
| 19 | In the case of the SAM , this is a tiny spherical depression ground into the end of a sapphire rod . |
| 20 | Float ( i.e. the lapse of time between the end of a work element and the following dependent work element ) or a programmed period of unproductive time within a work element has to be recognized in both the tender and subsequent programmes . |
| 21 | I was quite tough with them and , though I 've only ever smacked them once — with the stick end of a feather duster which , since reading Mommie Dearest , they 've turned into a wire coat-hanger — I would often destroy them with tongue-lashings that still twist my conscience today . |
| 22 | There was a plant , which grew and blossomed along the picture rail , and climbed down a picture cord to embrace the frame of a small oil painting of naked nymphs ; there was the end of a brass bedstead , upon which other plants clambered and flowered . |
| 23 | Unlike other LIFFE futures contracts , all open positions at the end of a trading day are automatically closed out at the first subsequent opening price for the respective delivery month on the Tokyo Stock Exchange 's JGB futures contract . |
| 24 | Kate , on the receiving end of a warning nip , spoke up . |
| 25 | But so far you see , the er have been involved in it , who have been craftsmen , technicians have all come out of the end of a B Tec qualification with a distinction |
| 26 | Only days before the verdict was announced the Rev. Al Sharpton , a black Baptist minister , warned the white community that unless both Fama and Mondello were convicted of murder " you are lighting a match to the end of a powder keg and telling us to burn the town down " . |
| 27 | This chapter mentioned several ways in which the end of a character string may be indicated . |
| 28 | You can dish them out to visiting dignitaries at the end of a state visit . |
| 29 | Wright , who was passed fit to play shortly before the kickoff following a hamstring injury , struck emphatically on the end of a lightning exchange of passes with Paul Merson and Kevin Campbell which cut the Palace defence to ribbons . |
| 30 | Along with learning to scuba dive , swim with dolphins , become an astronaut or climb Everest , one of my ambitions has always been to take time out to become really familiar with the business end of a recording studio . |