Example sentences of "of [noun pl] at the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sedgley was sent on for Walsh in order to protect the two-goal lead , and Hendry was given a couple of minutes at the end so that Lineker could take a well-earned breather . |
| 2 | you see and I 'm glad I did n't miss it , I 'm glad I went through all what I did and , and this particular raid , you see , the siren went and they said a telegraph office read , you see , an and then I thought I 'll go to the back door and I went to the , well it was actually on the front of the station and I went to the front of the station and there was this plane swooping down like that and of course , you see , the bombs did n't fall down straight like that but they went as the plane went and they knocked down a row of houses at the end of the road . |
| 3 | The weekend incident led to angry scenes and a furious exchange of views at the end of the match between Dooley and Stoke assistant coach , Tony Brindley . |
| 4 | It was found that recall of words at the end of the list was indeed significantly greater than when recall was immediate and this gave rise to the phenomenon known as the recency effect . |
| 5 | I can see the lights from a couple of shops at the end of the driveway , but they ai n't open I think — they just got their lights on . |
| 6 | Each has been very interesting , and , having offered to a partner , , to give the firm a vote of thanks at the end , was encouraged so to do as yesterday was the last in the series . |
| 7 | I 'm a member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers and er because I 'm by background an electronics engineer and I was at a meeting there where a chap was giving a talk on design express lifts you know at Northampton and the Chairman stood up and introduced doctor whoever he was sat down turned round to me in the second row and said could you give a vote of thanks at the end . |
| 8 | There was a short flight of steps at the end . |
| 9 | One of the most curious of these was the knighting of ambassadors at the end of their mission by the monarch to whom they had been accredited and the grant to them of augmentations to their coats of arms . |
| 10 | LORD ALDINGTON was asked to explain yesterday why he had removed the word ‘ subterfuge ’ from a speech at his old school explaining his part in the repatriation and subsequent death of tens of thousands of Yugoslavs at the end of the Second World War . |
| 11 | The sample list of libraries at the end shows how serious the phenomenon is and forestalls criticism of the kind I have already heard : ‘ The situation is wildly exaggerated . |
| 12 | The knocking off of fetters at the end of The House of the Dead . |
| 13 | He had chewed his way to the bunch of seeds at the end of the stalk . |
| 14 | This was also borne out by the inclusion of catalogues at the end of the book , looking very much like contributions from various nurseries and it is evident that those recommending the work did so with an eye to business . |
| 15 | This is arrived at by taking the selling price prevailing at the end of the year £140 less the costs per bed of advertising , delivery etc. of £10 making a net selling price of £130 , and taking off the cost of beds at the end of the period , i.e. £120 . |
| 16 | There 's gon na be a lot of changes at the end of this century , the beginning of next century in Europe and if we 're not with them then we 're gon na be left behind . |
| 17 | It is not a question of resources at the end of the day . ’ |
| 18 | That meant Argentinian shoppers were paying roughly 30 times more for the same basket of goods at the end of 1989 than at the beginning of the year . |
| 19 | The final hymn had eight verses , not to speak of a chorus of Hallelujahs at the end of each one ; Mr Frizzell enjoyed this and sang in a pleasant tenor voice . |
| 20 | While ordinary motive power generally became more standardised , and again as told later in these pages the difference between locomotive-hauled and multiple-unit stock less marked , the variety still remains impressive and just as many notebooks and cameras record the passage of trains at the end as at the beginning of the eighties . |
| 21 | Senior Albanian diplomats had contacts with United States officials at the UN in May , the first official contact between the two countries since the breaking off of relations at the end of the Second World War [ see also p. 37385 ] . |
| 22 | We have therefore decided that colleges may continue to recruit students to all existing courses for session 1989–90 and this information was confirmed in a letter from the Chief Executive to Directors of Education and Principals/Directors of colleges at the end of October . |
| 23 | Some rather fundamental reform of the international monetary system would have been inevitable even without the deterioration in the US balance of payments at the end of the 1960s . |
| 24 | The venue has had to be moved , and financial implications have meant a reduction in the teaching time available , and the abandonment of teas at the end of the day . |
| 25 | It was not the only important monastic centre in Gaul ; already Martin , bishop of Tours at the end of the fourth century , had established an ascetic tradition in the Touraine and Poitou , and in Marseilles John Cassian , an easterner with first-hand knowledge of Egyptian asceticism , wrote two of the classics of monastic literature , the Institutes and the Conferences . |
| 26 | Yeah it 's got three chest of drawers at the end bit |
| 27 | In summer he let her cut a bunch of flowers at the end of the morning , to take home for the table . |
| 28 | New proposals were said to encompass a truce , multiparty elections , the creation of a single army and the holding of a seventh round of negotiations at the end of March . |
| 29 | While , for many years , there has been discussion , in the Schools Council and elsewhere , about the reform of the examination system and the closer integration of CSE and GCE , Sir Keith Joseph gave notice in January 1984 of much more radical changes in the assessment of pupils at the end of compulsory schooling . |
| 30 | The deployment of police at the end of the National Unemployed Workers Movement hunger march in London in October 1932 saw the most intensive public order precautions since 1848 . |