Example sentences of "was [vb pp] at [art] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The bill was withdrawn at the end of October . |
| 3 | An employee who was reprimanded at the end of July 1980 subsequently demanded , through his solicitors , that the letter of reprimand be withdrawn . |
| 4 | The narrative after-theme condition was identical except that sentence ( 3 ) which explains the theme of the passage was given at the end . |
| 5 | The only door was situated at the end of the corridor , secured by a bulky padlock . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The barrel was blackened at the end . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The Daimler was parked at the end of the towpath , and they took the same road . |
| 13 | It was reported at the end of February 1990 that the then Minister of State for the Southern Province R. H. Sam Kpakra had suspended voter registration in preparation for the 1991 elections in the constituencies of Bo Town 1 , Bo West and Bo North , following claims that irregularities had taken place . |
| 14 | It was reported at the end of January that talks under UN mediation between the government and the FMLN which became deadlocked in September 1990 [ see p. 37707 ] , had resumed earlier in the month in Mexico City and in San José , Costa Rica , and were making progress . |
| 15 | Desperate food shortages continued in Tskhinvali , and it was reported at the end of March that the town 's vital road link to North Ossetia had been cut by Georgian armed bands . |
| 16 | His statement was reported at the end of a three-day visit by Yeltsin [ see p. 38772 ] . |
| 17 | Departmental sections then followed , each with a list of recommendations and a short section containing the principal recommendations was included at the end . |
| 18 | When he was approached at the end of 1987 to become the Pru 's finance director he was tempted away , partly because the tremendous growth of PW had created ‘ more of a loss of identity as individual partners ’ and partly because it offered a new and exciting role . |
| 19 | A huge cow bell was rung at the end of the chukka , but the boys went on playing . |
| 20 | The partnership had opened a new phosphorus plant in Oldbury in Worcestershire in 1851 , which Albright took over when it was dissolved at the end of 1854 . |
| 21 | I think it still belongs to the Duke of Devonshire because he was interviewed at the end was n't he ? |
| 22 | An official announcement was expected at the end of the week , following a final meeting at Pirelli 's Milan headquarters , but it has been delayed by contractual difficulties with some of the company 's existing Italian agencies . |
| 23 | Formal approval of detailed proposals , on which negotiations had been in progress for five months , was expected at the end of February . |
| 24 | However if the actual price level turned out to be higher in t than was expected at the end of t - 1 , firms would be more willing to produce extra output and y t , would exceed y * ; . |
| 25 | If the actual money stock in t is accurately predicted by agents at the end of period t - 1 ( in symbols ) , the actual price level in t will equal the price level which was expected at the end of t - 1 since expectations regarding the future behaviour of the money stock have been accurately generated by the efficient use of the information available in . |
| 26 | Brooks was fuming after his ten-year-old , 5–2 favourite for the Haygrass Handicap Chase , was hampered at the end of the back straight by eventual winner Powder Boy . |
| 27 | In the sample year ( 1985 ) , Malcolm Fairley , known as ‘ The Fox ’ , was sentenced at the end of February and immediately became a legendary sex beast to whom several subsequent reports explicitly referred . |
| 28 | Unfortunately , A.F.D. were missing Nick Benham who was injured at the end of the cross-country season during which he was the club 's leading boy . |
| 29 | This exhibition has been sent from the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York , where it was seen at the end of last year in a larger version and under the title ‘ Celebrating Calder ’ . |
| 30 | There was no fairness on earth if someone who would appreciate it and work hard was kept out just because of a greedy , uncaring family who would prefer to forget the child of an unsuitable union rather than make a generous gesture and ensure that some right was done at the end of the day . |