Example sentences of "and [adv] [prep] [art] end " in BNC.

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1 Amused by Mr Baker 's diplomatic skills , I composed a letter to Roald Dahl , and luckily by the end of July he had sent us a sensible letter of resignation .
2 Bomber Command never overcame the problem of the weather , right to the bitter end , and right to the end the Germans fought back .
3 Parks did have talent and right to the end , which came after he had shot his final roll on a Town & Country sitting , he never , ever dressed like a stockbroker .
4 He and his wife were a ‘ very , very thrifty ’ , simple-living couple , and right at the end of their long lives quite close .
5 ‘ Yeah , there are times , because certain guitars do n't have a wangy bar , that you get a great solo for most of the song and right at the end you want to maybe slide down and you ca n't do it , so you 'd have to find a guitar that would do that , and then blend it in . ’
6 They could not reach agreement and so in the end two definitions emerged in the document : 1 .
7 Although there was a sort of medieval corporation , it did n't have a Royal Charter and so in the end of the seventeenth century it was somewhat subverted , and really there was no proper town government to speak of until the beginning of the nineteenth century with the Borough Commissioners and then later on with the Mayor and Corporation which was set up in eighteen eighty one .
8 Although there was a sort of mediaeval corporation it did n't have the royal charter , and so in the end of the seventeenth century it was somewhat subverted and really there was no proper town government to speak of until the beginning of the nineteenth century with the borough commissioners and then later on with the Mayor and Corporation which was set up in 1881 .
9 The Canadian authorities , in the meantime , asked for forty-five cuts to be made , which Nicholson refused to do , and so by the end of 1971 the film had been shown only in selected cinemas in America and even there , the reaction had been mixed .
10 Man is a god in ruins , thought Emerson , and perhaps at the end of the twentieth century much the same could be said of his world , a still beautiful but ravaged paradise which , regardless of the tenets of sustainable development will not be passed on to the next century in better or even the same condition , in fact , almost certainly in worse condition as a result of meeting the needs of another billion or so people .
11 The cells from the outside move into the interior during gastrulation and only at the end of the gastrulation are they more or less in their proper position .
12 I did n't know him and only at the end did he wish to know me . ’
13 For example , in a piece such as ‘ Swing low , sweet chariot ’ the accompaniment could use only the words ‘ Swing low ’ , and just here and there ( and especially at the end ) join the soloist at the repeated ‘ coming for to carry me home ’ .
14 right , and I look over to Roger and Roger 's flicking through his notes like this and as you , you were peeping through and he 's trying to find out what , what he 's talking about , they 're not looking at each other and anyway at the end of it , er we went through it and at the end of it he turned round and went how was it , what were you playing at , what was that spiel that you gave it 's in my brief , that 's one of my objections
15 All the above types of violation of a person 's autonomy involve what Kant described as treating the person as a means to someone else 's end , and not as an end in themselves .
16 But the point is that making profits for shareholders must now be seen as a mechanism for promoting the public interest , and not as an end in itself .
17 That bar in the illustration , had to be lifted up and over at the end of each row to deposit the stitches on to the needles — a great opportunity to drop stitches , which I did most of the time !
18 The second sentence may be a little easier and usually by the end of the first paragraph , students feel more secure ; they are " into " the essay .
19 He must be both desperate and close to the end to take such an enormous risk .
20 And close to the end a few people that were hanged a are innocent .
21 ‘ He 's here for eight weeks and hopefully by the end of his stay he will be able to walk . ’
22 Unit six and up to the end of unit six .
23 Mean arterial pressure was similar between groups during placebo ( 97 ( 8 ) mm Hg in enalapril group v 97 ( 8 ) mm Hg in hydrochlorothiazide group ; p=0.996 ) and also at the end of follow up ( 89 ( 8 ) mm Hg in enalapril group v 93 ( 10 ) mm Hg in hydrochlorothiazide group ; p=0.2613 ) .
24 This , of course , delighted the child and every night she stood in the wings performing everybody 's act with them , and even at the end of two shows , she was as bright in the dressing room as she 'd been at the overture .
25 There was an accumulated credit balance of £300,000 by 1584 ; and even at the end of the reign the Crown had an annual surplus on the ordinary account .
26 They were later to acquire the vague title of ‘ Nepmen ’ , but in 1922 they were not so clear-cut a phenomenon , and even by the end of NEP it was not possible , despite all Bolshevik propaganda efforts , to lump their origins and subsequent characteristics into the same abstract pigeon-hole .
27 But a recent development in its transmission , Digital Video Narrowband Emission ( Divine ) , now looks very likely to supersede the analogue HDMAC as the preferred standard for HDTV in Europe — and well before the end of the decade .
28 This stripping away of extraneous duties continued under its successor , the College of Foreign Affairs , which began to function in 1719 , and well before the end of the century this process of specialization had been completed .
29 Other noisy people who were very grey moved rapidly backwards and forwards on the end wall .
30 And maybe at the end of the day , the County Council will have to come to a conclusion , after you 've made your general recommendations , with or without a location maybe th they will decide that having gone through a consultation exercise , they 're only course is to modify the proposals which would then have to be the subject of another E I P .
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