Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | The evangelical belief , much disseminated in the mid-nineteenth century , that children should be protected from the rigours of the adult world and educated and assisted to be morally good adults , was joined by the end of the century by a belief in the economic and military importance of building , from birth , a strong and stable race . |
| 2 | He got together with Clyde Walcott , a happy refereeing choice for three Tests in England this summer between England and Pakistan , and they ruled that the rule called for 90 overs to be bowled every day , and the allowance for wickets would only be taken into account for fining purposes when each side 's overall rate was calculated at the end of the game . |
| 3 | Suppressing the Poles had taken less than a year , but the pacification of Muslims in the mountainous region between the Black Sea and the Caspian was to continue beyond the end of the reign . |
| 4 | The bill was withdrawn at the end of October . |
| 5 | The Turkish garrison in Belgrade remained , but the army of occupation was withdrawn by the end of 1813 . |
| 6 | An employee who was reprimanded at the end of July 1980 subsequently demanded , through his solicitors , that the letter of reprimand be withdrawn . |
| 7 | So far as one can judge , the women 's resistance movement was formed towards the end of June 1910 , that is while talks were still inconclusive , and before the events reported above led the management of Neill 's and Morrison & Gibb 's to sign the memorial . |
| 8 | This system of classification was initiated by the International Institute of Bibliography , which was formed towards the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 9 | Much was heard by the end of the Victorian era about changes in the content of sermons . |
| 10 | A few sections of rail were lying on the bottom , several more were scattered on the ground and one was propped against the end of the trailer as if whoever had been in the act of loading or unloading had abandoned it in a hurry . |
| 11 | The narrative after-theme condition was identical except that sentence ( 3 ) which explains the theme of the passage was given at the end . |
| 12 | The only door was situated at the end of the corridor , secured by a bulky padlock . |
| 13 | found shirtsleeve order the most comfortable dress for tropical campaigning ; and this was recognized before the end of 1898 by a concession allowing officers to attach the transverse shoulder straps from their blue coats directly to the blue shirt . |
| 14 | George was placed towards the end of a gigantic column , headed by five thousand Jews in poor physical condition . |
| 15 | The West German leader , far from seeking to slow down the process leading to monetary union , said the treaty revision should be agreed by the end of 1991 and put into force by the time the EC single market was completed at the end of 1992 . |
| 16 | The initial phase of the wartime operational expert system was completed towards the end of 1987 . |
| 17 | The necessary preparatory work was completed by the end of July 1943 , on the basis of 10 repaired mainplanes per week . |
| 18 | He lost no time : his report was completed by the end of the month , and early in April they met to consider the Report and its Recommendation . |
| 19 | Selection of the supplier was achieved in April and development of the detailed software specification was completed by the end of the year . |
| 20 | The second stage of the withdrawal of Cuban forces was completed by the end of April 1990 , one month behind schedule as a result of the January suspension [ see p. 37175 ] ; the total number of disengaged Cuban troops was now 33,048 . |
| 21 | The erection of two 225 tonne per hour Grain Suction Towers and the upgrading of ancillary plant within the Imperial Dock Warehouse was completed by the end of the year . |
| 22 | Yes wh when they reported to the committee two years ago erm I explained that there was combat modelling going on at at the time and indeed that was completed by the end of nineteen ninety two and it showed that er of all the alternatives available then Eurofighter two thousand was the most cost effective solution to the R A F's requirements and yet it would it would not be able to meet up er to the F twenty two but other than that it was superior to all other aircraft . |
| 23 | It was the year of the Queen 's Silver Jubilee and the Prince , just twenty-nine , was drawing to the end of his first year as a full-time working member of the ‘ family firm ’ . |
| 24 | He came out after two weeks and — despite a slight chill on the liver — he was recovering by the end of February . |
| 25 | He was considered to be one of the most dangerous of all the fascists and was interned until the end of the Second World War . |
| 26 | Under the chairmanship of Sir Peter Parker the concept of the commercial railway and the social railway was developed at the end of the 1970s and the start of the 1980s . |
| 27 | The barrel was blackened at the end . |
| 28 | Erhard was succeeded at the end of 1966 , not by a reconstituted CDU-FDP coalition , but by a ‘ Grand Coalition ’ of the CDU and SDP , the first time the SDP had shared in government since 1930 . |
| 29 | The AMU Presidential Council , composed of the heads of the member states , was chaired in the first half of 1990 by President Ben Ali of Tunisia , who was succeeded at the end of June by Algerian President Chadli Bendjedid who in turn was succeeded on Dec. 31 by the Libyan leader , Col. Moamer al-Kadhafi . |
| 30 | The 28-year-old graduate from Bristol University was fined at the end of last season for failing to turn up for the team coach travelling to the FA Cup final after discovering he had been dropped in favour of the fit-again Bruce Grobbelaar . |